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Columbia's most famous academic is Edward Said, but cons picked a fight there
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 06/10/25 |
| https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK | 06/10/25 |
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Date: June 10th, 2025 7:33 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK because the only thing cons know about Columbia is that it's an Ivy League School. Even RSF has no idea what happens there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5735846&forum_id=2\u0026mark_id=5310486#49003392) |
Date: June 10th, 2025 7:35 PM Author: https://imgur.com/a/o2g8xYK Edward Wadie Said[a] (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist.[1] As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of post-colonial studies.[2] As a cultural critic, Said is best known for his book Orientalism (1978), a foundational text which critiques the cultural representations that are the bases of Orientalism—how the Western world perceives the Orient.[3][4][5][6] His model of textual analysis transformed the academic discourse of researchers in literary theory, literary criticism, and Middle Eastern studies.[7][8][9][10]
Born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine, in 1935, Said was a United States citizen by way of his father, who had served in the United States Army during World War I. After the 1948 Palestine war, he relocated the family to Egypt, where they had previously lived, and then to the United States. Said enrolled at the secondary school Victoria College while in Egypt and Northfield Mount Hermon School after arriving in the United States. He graduated with a BA in English from Princeton University in 1957, and later with an MA (1960) and a PhD (1964) in English Literature from Harvard University.[1] His principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor W. Adorno.[10]
In 1963, Said joined Columbia University as a member of the English and Comparative Literature faculties, where he taught and worked until 2003. He lectured at more than 200 other universities in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.[11] |