In addition to fulfilling the teaching and research responsibilities of a senior English department Faculty member, Scarry works on the Mind, Brain and Behavior interfaculty initiative, writes on war and the social contract and has even studied the effects of electromagnetic pulses on civilian aircraft.
In the Classroom
Her course offerings are a mixture of the traditional and the offbeat: a study of the Bronte sisters, a survey of writings on beauty, but also a class examining the problem of subject consent spanning the centuries and a class on literature at the ends of centuries.
Students rave about her courses.
For her Brontes class she got a CUE guide rating of 4.9 out of 5.
"She's one of the most amazing professors at Harvard," says Sara D. Reistad-Long '00, who has been in two of Scarry's seminars. "I always come out of her class thinking she and everybody else [in the class] was brilliant."
Scarry deplores the notion that books must be indecipherable in order to be important. She insists academic life is much more than a flurry of incomprehensible writings exchanged between scholars.
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