Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sacvan Bercovitch (born 4 October 1933 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian Americanist, literary and cultural critic and academic.Sacvan Bercovitch is perhaps the most influential and controversial Americanist of his generation. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received his B.A. at Sir George Williams College, now Concordia University (1958) and his Ph.D. at Claremont Graduate School, now Claremont Graduate University (1965). (He has since then received honorary degrees from both institutions: an LLD from Concordia in 1993 and an HLD from Claremont n 2005). Bercovitch taught at Brandeis, the University of California-San Diego, Princeton, and from 1970 to 1984 at Columbia; from 1984 until his retirement in 2001 he taught at Harvard, where he held the Powell M. Cabot Professorship in American Literature (the Chair formerly held by Perry Miller); he is now the Powell M. Cabot Research Professor at Harvard.