The Retirement and Career of Robert Pogue Harrison
"He’s been called one of the , and now he’s taking a step back. , Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in the Department of French & Italian at ɫƬ and has formally retired and is now professor emeritus – but thank goodness he promises not to go away! We need him!
The all-day event to celebrate him on Friday, April 19, was intellectually rich and joyous, as everyone would have predicted. But perhaps the talk that might have the most immediate applications in today’s world was Andrea Capra’s lively presentation – “Matters of Ordinary Mentorship or: How to Think with Robert Pogue Harrison.” Mind you, not on learning how to think like Robert, but rather learning how to think with Robert. That might benefit all of us, in academia and out. Andrea, who is Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton, gave permission for us to republish his talk as a Book Haven essay. I think we can all learn something from it – about Robert, and about thinking."
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