Regular PositionsBrandeis University: 1966-1968University of California, San Diego: 1968-1970 Columbia University: 1970-1983 Harvard University: 1983-2001 Summer, Part-time, and Visiting PositionsBread Loaf School of English: 1970-1979Leonia 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 TaughtWestern 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 DirectedOver 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 CoursesExtension School: E-202 (Syllabus)Freshman Seminar |