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The Distinguished Scholars Series

In Spring 2008, this series included Dr. Peter Brooks.

As a Yale University Comparative Literature professor and Mellon Award winner, Brooks is praised as “one of the leading literary critics of his generation.” His extensive bibliography includes “Henry James Goes to Paris” (2007), “Realist Vision” (2005), “Psychoanalysis and Storytelling” (1994), “Body Work (1993), “Reading for the Plot” (1984), “The Melodramatic Imagination” (1976), “The Novel of Worldliness” (1969), “Law’s Stories” (1996), edited with Paul Gewirtz—and “Whose Freud? (2000), co-authored with Alex Woloch. He is also the author of a number of books on law and literature, including “Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature” (2000).

 

In Fall 2007, this series included bell hooks, winner of multiple writing awards and distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College in her home state of Kentucky.

 

In 2006-2007, this series included Benedict Nightengale, theater critic for the London Times, and Stephen Greenblatt, John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and author of ten books, including most recently Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. (April 2007)

 

The New West Writers Series

In 2007-2008, the New West Writers Series hosted:

Janet Holmes & Kate Greenstreet, and William Stobb

 

 

Deadlines and Links

Book orders for Fall 2008 are due. Submit your orders online.

Grades for Spring 2008 will be due May 20, through web grading.

 

 

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