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Jenny Davidson

2009-06-03T19:30:04Z

OliveOilman: Three blogs

'''Jenny Davidson''' is an associate professor of [[English]] specializing in the 18th century, British culture and history, and the contemporary novel. She earned her [[A.B.]] at Radcliffe ([[Harvard]]'s former [[Barnard]]) in [[1993]] and her [[Ph.D.]] from [[Yale]] in [[1999]]. She's written a novel, won a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]], and maintains three separate [[blog|blogs]], including [http://jennydavidson.blogspot.com Light Reading].

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Andrew Delbanco

2009-06-03T18:19:06Z

OliveOilman: Fixing pronunciation

'''Andrew Delbanco''' (pronounced "Dell-BANK-o") is the Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities and the director of the [[American Studies Program]]. He's also a prominent public intellectual who publishes all over the place and was named America's "top social critic" by ''Time'' magazine. The snarky comment on this is to say that Andrew Delbanco is what Time Magazine thinks a social critic is. He creepily refers to his Chinese-American wife as being "of Asian extraction."

A double graduate of [[Harvard]] ([[B.A.]], [[Ph.D.]]), he has also been the recipient of a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]. Only he and [[Edward Said]] have won the [[Trilling Award]] twice, once for ''Melville'' and once for ''The Puritan Ordeal''.

==Works==
*''Melville: His World and Work'' (2005)
*''The Real American Dream'' (1999)
*''Required Reading: Why Our American Classics Matter Now'' (1997)
*''The Death of Satan'' (1995)
*''The Puritan Ordeal'' (1989)

==External links==
*[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/amstudies/faculty/intermediate.html American Studies faculty page]

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Edward Said

2009-06-03T18:18:27Z

OliveOilman: /* Career at Columbia */

[[Image:EdwardSaid.jpg|thumb|200px|Edward Said]]

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'''Edward Said''' was a longtime professor of [[English and Comparative Literature]] and [[University Professor]]. Said is notable for espousing the theory of [[Orientalism]], which, in turn, helped to originate [[Postcolonialism]]. Chances are that you will have read an article of his in [[University Writing]], or bumped into his work in a [[Major Cultures]] class. Either way, you will not escape Columbia without having read or pretended to read at least something by him. His nickname is "Ed Said" (with "Said" mispronounced so as to rhyme with "Ed").

==Career at Columbia==

Said began teaching at Columbia in [[1963]], and in [[1977]] became the Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Subsequently, he was named the Old Dominion Foundation Professor in the Humanities. In [[1992]], he attained the rank of [[University Professor]], Columbia's most prestigious academic position. Although he was a famed theoretical literary critic, he actively discouraged literary theory in his classes.

===Rock-throwing incident===

In [[2000]], Said was photographed throwing a rock over the border between the Palestinian territories and Israel. This caused a flurry of condemnation on campus and in the press, but Provost [[Alan Brinkley]] said the university would take no action agaist Said, and defended his action on grounds of freedom of expression.

==Death and legacy==

Said died in New York on [[September 25]], [[2003]] at age 67 after an 11 year long battle with leukemia.<ref>[http://media.www.columbiaspectator.com/media/storage/paper865/news/2003/09/26/News/Famed.Professor.Said.Dies.At.67-2036059.shtml "Famed Professor Said Dies at 67"], ''Columbia Spectator'', 9/26/03</ref>

He was the first professor to win the [[Lionel Trilling Book Award]] twice, a feat shared only with [[Andrew Delbanco]]. The [[Edward Said Memorial Lecture]] was established in his honour by the [[Heyman Center]] in [[2005]]. A professorship endowed in his name is held by Middle East historian [[Rashid Khalidi]].

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Edward Mendelson

2009-06-03T02:18:11Z

OliveOilman: Undo revision 29474 by 66.65.114.194 (Talk) Not for me...

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'''Edward Mendelson''' is the [[Lionel Trilling]] Professor in the Humanities. He teaches [[English and Comparative Literature]] and is the literary executor of the Estate of W.H. Auden.

His wife, [[Cheryl Mendelson]], is a novelist who teaches at [[Barnard]].

==Review==

He is an AMAZING professor, especially if you are lucky enough to get him for the first semester of [[Literature Humanities]] which he has taught many times. His philosophy includes actively looking for reasons to give students good grades, encouraging honesty (whether that means saying that you think a book is bullshit or admitting that you haven't done any of the readings) and giving a "Low-Anxiety Final Exam" consisting of one essay and ten "identifications" which can be "Pericles Funeral Oration" or "Briseus". Your task is to only name the book, but if you can't remember the title, the instructions inform the test taker that they can describe the book, saying for Odysseus "the one about the man trying to go home".

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