CHAL, Emergent Literatures, Scholarship and Teaching
Last night, in Philadelphia, I watched my mentor, Sacvan Bercovitch, receive the American Studies Association’s Carl Bode – Norman Holmes Pearson Prize for lifetime achievement. It was my pleasure and my honor to have nominated Saki for the award and to...
CHAL, Emergent Literatures
Robert Ferguson (Columbia University) wrote to me in an e-mail that the format for tonight’s MLA roundtable “American Literary Historiography, Then and Now,” which I am chairing, was not promising, given that we had seven people slotted to speak and...
