As an undergraduate at Harvard, Kaiama L. Glover studied French and African American cultures as two separate areas of focus. Her professor and mentor, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (a 1973 graduate of Yale), suggested she think about the two cultures together....
It’s the final class of “American Opera Today: Explorations of a Burgeoning Industry.” A dozen students are munching on German Christmas cookies, courtesy of Professor Gundula Kreuzer, while taking turns presenting overviews of their final papers.
Their...