Teaching


Regular Positions

Brandeis University: 1966-1968
University of California, San Diego: 1968-1970
Columbia University: 1970-1983
Harvard University: 1983-2001

Summer, Part-time, and Visiting Positions

Bread Loaf School of English: 1970-1979
Leonia Alternative High School: 1971-1972
Princeton University: 1973-1974
Dartmouth University School of Criticism and Theory:1987
Beijing Academy of Science: 1984
Tel-Aviv University: 1988
University of Rome: 1992
Moscow State University: 2002

Courses Taught

Western Humanities (Great Books course)
New England Puritanism (literature, theology, intellectual history)
American literature (all aspects, from the colonial period to the present including individual authors)
Myth of America
Literature of Protest and Dissent
Literary History
Jewish Literary Tradition (works ranging from the Bible through Jewish modernists to contemporary Jewish fiction)

Theses Directed

Over 20 undergraduate theses in a variety of areas.
Over 50 PhD theses, many of which have been published as books. Graduate students now hold positions across the USA, from Yale to UCLA, and also abroad, from Oxford to Beijing.

Current Courses

Extension School: E-202 (Syllabus)
Freshman Seminar


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