Literature
Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (2012-2013)
Jan 20, 2013
鈥淗umanizing the Urban: The Poetics of Citizenship鈥 Pier Giorgio Di Cicco was an Italian Canada author, editor, and priest. He attended the University of Toronto, graduating with the B.A. in 1973 and a B.Ed. in 1976. A trip to Italy in the 1970s inspired him to become a [...]
Mary Louise Pratt (2009-2010)
Mar 03, 2010
鈥淕lobalization and the Ecology of Language鈥 Mary Louise Pratt is an emeritus professor at New York University, where before retirement she was Silver Professor and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures. She studied at the University of Toronto, the [...]
Enric Bou i Maqueda (2009-2010)
Feb 10, 2010
鈥淒ali: Secret Writing, Hidden Paint鈥 & 鈥淓l Mundo Almodovar: Obsesiones Rotas鈥 Enric Bou is professor of Iberian Studies at the University Ca鈥 Foscari Venezia. He has taught in universities in France, Spain and the USA. His research interests, always from the perspective of [...]
Marjorie Garber (2008-2009)
Jan 20, 2009
鈥淎fter the Humanities鈥 Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the author of nineteen single-authored books and the editor or co-editor of seven edited collections. She has also [...]
Frederick A. de Armas (2007-2008)
Jan 20, 2008
鈥淨uixotic Frescos: Cervantes and Italian Art鈥 Frederick A. de Armas is the Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, Spanish Literature, and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. He is a literary scholar, critic and novelist whose [...]
Elie Wiesel (2006-2007)
Nov 22, 2006
鈥淎gainst Indifference鈥 Elie Wiesel is a Nobel laureate and a Holocaust survivor. He was born in Sighet, Transylvania in 1928. His family was captured and transferred to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 two weeks before D-Day. There, his mother and sisters were taken [...]
Evelyne Accad (2004-2005)
Mar 08, 2005
鈥淪exuality and War in the Aftermath of September Eleven鈥 Evelyne Accad is professor emerita of Francophone, Arabophone, African, Middle East, Women鈥檚 Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was born in Beirut in 1943 and [...]
Gwynne Dyer (1999-2000)
Oct 03, 1999
鈥淒emocratic Overdog: Strategy, Morality, and Etiquette for the New Masters of the Universe鈥 Gwynne Dyer is a freelance journalist, columnist, broadcaster, and lecturer, originally trained as a historian. He has served in the armed forces of three nations and has held [...]
Edward W. Said (1993-1994)
Nov 03, 1993
鈥淗istorical Experience and Multiculturalism鈥 Edward Said was a Palestinian-American academic, political activist, and literary critic who was a founder of postcolonial studies. After receiving a BA at Princeton, he attended Harvard, where he specialized in English [...]
Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 (1991-1992)
Mar 26, 1992
鈥淎rt War with the State: The Writer and Politics in Africa鈥 Ng农g末 wa Thiong鈥檕 is an exiled and widely respected Kenyan playwright, critic and novelist who wrote the novel Matigari ma Njiruungi. He has been at the front of the struggle for democracy and social justice in [...]
Ariel Dorfmann (1991-1992)
Jan 20, 1992
鈥淭he Authoritarian State鈥 Ariel Dorfman is a Chilean-Argentinian-American novelist, playwright, academic, and human rights activist. He is an exile from the Pinochet regime in Chile and the child of Holocaust refugees. At Duke University, Dorfman is the Walter Hines Page [...]
Anton Shammas (1991-1992)
Nov 07, 1991
鈥淢uffled Voices, Shifting Grounds: To Story-Tell the Middle East鈥 Anton Shammas is a noted Palestinian editor, TV producer, freelance journalist, author and poet. His book, Arabesques, was selected by the New York Times Book Review as one of the seven best novels of 1988 [...]