Lawrence Buell - Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Professor: Lawrence Buell

Department: English

College: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Rating # 1

Overview:

• Course: ENG271
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: Yes
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not that helpful; not much of a sense of humor; too soft-spoken; obsessed by hair-splitting distinctions which are not that relevant to the larger issues which he he only addresses in a very recondite manner.

Rating # 2

Overview:

• Course: ENG91R
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Very helpful and kind, and has a good sense of humor. A very charming man.

Rating # 3

Overview:

• Course: ENG100
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: No
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

This is a person who teaches how to teach as he teaches how to think. Peerless.

Rating # 4

Overview:

• Course: AMLIT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Not the nicest. Makes up a lot of words and has many pets in the class. I learned a lot about what it means to be humiliated.

Rating # 5

Overview:

• Course: ENG17
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 1.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Heartless

Rating # 6

Overview:

• Course: ENG17
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

so incredibly nice. best vocabulary ever.

Rating # 7

Overview:

• Course: ENGLISH17
• Grade Received: A
• Overall Rating: 2.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: Mandatory

Comment:

Kind of boring lectures, sometimes hard to follow. Really nice guy, though!

Rating # 8

Overview:

• Course: ENC1101
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

me fail english? that's unpossible!!

Rating # 9

Overview:

• Course: LAA64
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Class was interesting for both non-concentrators and lit-types. Extraordinarily accessible. Cares deeply about what he's teaching and those to whom he's teaching it.

Rating # 10

Overview:

• Course: LAA64
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 5.0
• Course Difficulty: 2.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Made the subject clear and fascinating for students outside the department. Changed my whole view literature and nature.

Rating # 11

Overview:

• Course: ENG
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

class was a little sophmoric...but whatever, i'll accept my A and go home. "Do well, then go home"

Rating # 12

Overview:

• Course: GRAD
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

They call him "the Godfather." He may seem nice, but be careful.

Rating # 13

Overview:

• Course: ENG178
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 1.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

kind of dumb, but really well-intentioned, nice to students

Rating # 14

Overview:

• Course: EN
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 3.0
• Course Difficulty: 3.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

It is preposterous to claim that Buell is possibly the greatest living scholar of American Literature.

Rating # 15

Overview:

• Course: AMLIT
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 2.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

A really nice man, but not very bright. laid back and pleasant, talks in a soft voice

Rating # 16

Overview:

• Course: ENG178
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.5
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Great, Reminds me of Emerson.

Rating # 17

Overview:

• Course: GRADENG
• Grade Received: N/A
• Overall Rating: 4.0
• Course Difficulty: 4.0

• For Credit: N/A
• Textbook Used: N/A
• Would Take Again: N/A
• Attendance: N/A

Comment:

Soft spoken, but one of the most powerful people in the profession. Possibly the greatest living scholar of American literature.