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Harvard Book Store Friday Forum Series |
December 1, 2000 |
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Profile of Stephen Greenblatt |
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STEPHEN J. GREENBLATT is the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities. He received his B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in English at Yale University, and his A.B. and M.A. at Cambridge University. 1969, Dr. Greenblatt began his career at the University of California at Berkeley, becoming a full professor in 1980. He has received a Fulbright Scholarship, two Guggenheim fellowships, and many awards, including the British Council Prize in the Humanities and the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association of America. He has delivered the Clarendon Lectures at Oxford, the Carpenter Lectures at the University of Chicago, and the University Lectures at Princeton, among others, and has lectured widely throughout the world, including visiting professorships at the Peking University, the University of Bologna, Kyoto University, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Dr. Greenblatt serves on the board of directors of the Institute of Advanced Study in Berlin and will serve in 2002 as the president of the Modern Language Association of America. He is a member of the Academy of American Arts and Sciences, the founding editor of the journal Representations, and an advisory editor of many journals. iety of America. In addition to his newest book, Practicing New Historicism, he is the author of, among others, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare and Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, all published by University of Chicago Press. He is also the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and associate general editor of the seventh edition of The Norton Anthology of English Literature. |
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Dr. Greeblatt will be the featured speaker at our Friday Forum on December 1st. Friday, December 1, 2000, 3pm |