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Beauvoir as intellectual, politico, sexual theorist

Simone de Beauvoir would likely have had a lot to say at a slightly belated 100th anniversary of her birth on Feb. 20 at the Barker Center as a collection of great minds gathered to discuss her great...

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Damrosch named professor of comparative literature

David Damrosch, a scholar of world literature, has been appointed professor of comparative literature in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2009. Damrosch, 56,...

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Amanda Claybaugh named professor of English

Amanda Claybaugh, an expert on 19th century novels and on reformist writings from the United States and abroad, has been named professor of English at Harvard, effective July 1. Claybaugh is currently...

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Teaching as ‘a secular pulpit’

When David Damrosch was in ninth grade, a teacher gave him a copy of the novel “Tristam Shandy” because she thought it would appeal to his sense of humor. “I was blown away by it,” he said. “Tristam...

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Claudio Guillén

At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on February 1, 2011, the following Minute was placed upon the records. Claudio Guillén was born in Paris, and was brought up partly in that city.  His...

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Another Freedom: The Alternative History of an Idea

Curt Hugo Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Professor of Comparative Literature Svetlana Boym explores the cross-cultural history of the idea of freedom, discusses its...

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Dorrit Cohn, literature scholar, 87

Dorrit Cohn ’45, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature Emeritus, died on March 10. She was 87. Cohn came to Harvard in 1971. A scholar of German and comparative literature, Cohn was one of three...

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‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope

A large-scale, audio-video installation about the fragility of human life can be hard to watch. And the artists behind the event designed it that way. Shot on a smartphone through a handheld...

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3 takes on dealing with uncertainty

In this time of profound uncertainty, society can be sure of one thing: more uncertainty. The seemingly opaque path forward for us, individually and collectively, was the Gazette’s topic with three...

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AAPI students use their voices in The Wave Magazine

This past spring, Eric Zhou and Jerrica Li launched The Wave, a new, student-run, pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, with the goal of bringing people together to celebrate art and identity. Their...

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Exiled poet from 8 A.D. became Muhua Yang’s senior thesis

This is one in a series of profiles showcasing some of Harvard’s stellar graduates. In 8 A.D., Emperor Augustus mysteriously banished the poet Ovid from Rome to the shores of the Black Sea in what is...

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Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media marks fifth anniversary

In the years since Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration and an academic home for performance pedagogy and arts education on campus, almost 40...

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Harvard professor takes readers on literary adventure

Like so many people, David Damrosch found his travel plans upended by COVID in the spring of 2020. But Damrosch, chair of the Department of Comparative Literature and founder of the University’s...

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Novelist Elif Batuman returns to Harvard

A lot can change between the first and second year of college — academic pursuits, friendships, romantic desire. In her new novel, “Either/Or,” Elif Batuman ’99 explores these transitions through the...

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