Question on Ivy and freshman intro english

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<p>I haven’t heard of any time when Expos was considered something other than pointless drudgery. Maybe it was top-notch compared to other institutionalized drudgery.<br>
It’s a course with a lot of nuisance work and slim content that many students don’t need.</p>

<p>The biographies and hiring criteria for instructor’s are listed at:
[Preceptor</a> Positions Harvard College Writing Program](<a href=“http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&pageid=icb.page122980]Preceptor”>http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&pageid=icb.page122980)
[FACULTY</a> Harvard College Writing Program](<a href=“http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup35025]FACULTY”>http://isites.harvard.edu:80/icb/icb.do?keyword=k24101&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup35025)</p>

<p>None of them have books to their name, other than manuals on writing and writing instruction, or publication of their PhD theses with academic presses. Some of the biographical descriptions are straight from the Onion:</p>

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Her book on philosophy and intellectual disability will appear next fall (forthcoming, Indiana University Press.)</p>

<p>received her Ph.D. in English from Cornell University. Before coming to Harvard, she taught writing and literature courses at the University of Pennsylvania and Auburn Maximum Security Prison.</p>

<p>currently working on a book manuscript, entitled Mechanical Autonomy: Aesthetics, Technology, and the Modernist Novel.</p>

<p>has written the text for Foucault for Beginners, a comic book about the French philosopher.</p>

<p>Her short stories have appeared in literary journals (most recently in Barrelhouse) and her novel-in-progress, a story of the early American department store, was awarded a research grant from the New-York Historical Society.</p>

<p>His PhD thesis looked at what makes a life go well or badly and whether death (taken to be the annihilation of an individual) can constitute a harm for the one who dies. His journal article … considered moral questions that may or may not arise in connection with procreation.</p>

<p>Her interest in collaboration has also sparked an interest in remakes, especially remakes of Robinson Crusoe. She teaches a course on originality.</p>

<p>[He] is the Founding Artistic Director of The Committee, a New York-based theatre company that produces “catastrophic theatre.”

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