Hot For Teacher: Top 10 Hottest TFs

Hometown: Brooklyn, NY

Focus: Ph.D. in English and American Literature

Perfect Date: It would take me to see Alvin Ailey

Favorite Song: BOB by Outkast

Most Amusing Section: One student came into my section and started kissing up to another student thinking they were the TF. I looked too young.

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Cornel West

After Harvard: I’d like to teach, preferably at Harvard

Name: Gillian Prowse

Hometown: Timaru, New Zealand

Focus: Ph.D. in English and American Literature

Perfect Date: It better be with my fiancé and it would involve waterskiing

Favorite Song: Romeo and Juliet by Dire Straights

Most Amusing Section: I’m thinking hard – five years of completely non-interesting sections

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Marjorie Garber

After Harvard: Teach English lit. somewhere in the states

Name: Helen McCarthy

Hometown: Cambridge, England

Focus: History and Politics

Perfect Date: “The Marriage of Figaro” at the Met followed by a very lardy dinner

Favorite Song: Anything by the Spice Girls

Most Amusing Section: they all thought my British accent was hilarious

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Larry Summers

After Harvard: Second female Prime Minister of Britain

Name: Ben Berger

Hometown: Chicago, IL

Focus: Lecturer in Social Studies

Perfect Date: Italian dinner with my wife, Woody Allen movie, and then Lambada ‘til the cows come home

Favorite Song: “Comfortably Numb,” by Pink Floyd

Most Amusing Section: Well, there was that one time when Lucy and Ethel made wine by pressing grapes with their feet in a big vat...that was pretty funny.

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Keith Bybee

After Harvard: Resurrect the Tasty, Harvard Square’s best greasy spoon ever.

Name: Marius Heritea

Hometown: Born in Romania, grew up in India

Focus: Ph.D in Government

Perfect Date: Cooking dinner together

Favorite Song: Mozart’s requiem

Most Amusing Section: I hold my section hours in Algiers because I smoke like a madman. It’s impossible to get anyone there even though I buy them drinks

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Sharon Krause

After Harvard: A fiction writer. Studying government isn’t helping

Name: Greg Smith

Hometown: Akron, Ohio

Focus: Ph.D in early medieval history

Perfect Date: I don’t get out much – anywhere in Greece

Favorite Song: “Sweet Child of Mine” by Guns ‘n’ Roses

Most Amusing Section: The first section I ever taught, I sat down to say hello and the chair fell apart. It was a little awkward

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Ihor Sevcenko

After Harvard: Run a landscaping biz

Name: Andre Martin

Hometown: Romania

Focus: Masters in Architecture

Perfect Date: I would go to a Korean restaurant because you can BBQ the meat at your table

Favorite Song: “The Plug” by Bonobo

Most Amusing Section: I was told that I had to give a lecture 15 minutes before class started. I had to ad-lib for an hour and a half

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Rossana Vaccarino

After Harvard: Teaching architecture theory

Name: Mette Rasmussen

Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark

Focus: Post Doc at the Center for European Studies

Perfect Date: Enotecz Pincion restaurant in Florence, Italy and a walk in the countryside

Favorite Song: “Round the World in a Day” by Prince

Most Amusing Section: I’ll swear sometimes inadvertantly

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Are there any?

After Harvard: A professor

Name: Sarah Jackson

Hometown: Cincinnati, OH

Focus: Anthropology, specifically Archeology.

Perfect Date: hiking and/or chamber music

Favorite Song: “Pueblo Nuevo” by Buena Vista Social Club

Most Amusing Section: I taught Harvard kids at a field school in Honduras once, and nearly the entire section, including myself, got amoebic dysentery

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: The problem with choosing is that you can’t be a professor without losing “hotness.”

After Harvard: Teaching and research, in New England somewhere

Name: Stephanie Pumphrey

Hometown: Seattle, WA

Focus: Ph.D in English

Perfect Date: A good night of sleep - NO - A good day of walking with my husband and dogs

Favorite Song: “Jackstraw” by the Grateful Dead

Most Amusing Section: My section often degenerates into stories of past drug and sexual experimentation, which is never good

Hottest Harvard Faculty Member: Larry Summers because the English Department is not that great for pickins

After Harvard: Teach