David Rosen is an American literary scholar. [1] He is a professor at Trinity College,Connecticut. [1] [2]
Rosen received his BA from Columbia University,MA and PhD from Yale University. [1] He was an instructor at Yale,and joined the faculty of Trinity College,Connecticut,in 2002. Rosen's scholarship has focused on poetry and the evolution of the concept of privacy.
Rosen won the James Russell Lowell Prize from the Modern Language Association in 2013 for co-authoring The Watchman in Pieces:Surveillance,Literature,and Liberal Personhood (2013) with Aaron Santesso. [3] The book explores the way in which literature has shaped,and in turn been shaped by,surveillance and privacy practices since the Renaissance. [4]
Stephen Jay Greenblatt is an American Shakespearean,literary historian,and author. He has served as the John Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University since 2000. Greenblatt is the general editor of The Norton Shakespeare (2015) and the general editor and a contributor to The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University,an Ivy League research university in Cambridge,Massachusetts. Founded in 1636,Harvard College is the original school of Harvard University,the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world.
Daniel Coit Gilman was an American educator and academic. Gilman was instrumental in founding the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale College,and subsequently served as the second president of the University of California,Berkeley,as the first president of Johns Hopkins University,and as founding president of the Carnegie Institution. Eponymous halls at both Berkeley and Hopkins pay tribute to his service. He was also co-founder of the Russell Trust Association,which administers the business affairs of Yale's Skull and Bones society. Gilman served for twenty five years as president of Johns Hopkins;his inauguration in 1876 has been said to mark "the starting point of postgraduate education in the U.S."
The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University,a private research university in New Haven,Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813.
Jonathan Culler is an American literary critic. He was Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. His published works are in the fields of structuralism,literary theory and literary criticism.
Lowell House is one of twelve undergraduate residential Houses at Harvard University,located at 10 Holyoke Place facing Mount Auburn Street between Harvard Yard and the Charles River. Officially,it is named for the Lowell family,but an ornate ALL woven into the ironwork above the main gate discreetly alludes to Abbott Lawrence Lowell,Harvard's president at the time of construction. Its majestic neo-Georgian design,centered on two landscaped courtyards,received the 1938 Harleston Parker Medal and might be considered the model for later Harvard houses nearby. Lowell House is simultaneously close to the Yard,Harvard Square,and other Harvard "River" houses,and its blue-capped bell tower,visible for many miles,is a local landmark.
Theodore Ziolkowski was a scholar in the fields of German studies and comparative literature. He coined the term "fifth gospel genre".
Mary Baine Campbell is an American poet,scholar,and professor. She teaches medieval and Renaissance literature,as well as creative writing,at Brandeis University.
Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel,and two distinguished African novelists:Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩwa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
Roberto González Echevarría is a Cuban-born critic of Latin American literature and culture. He is the Sterling Professor of Hispanic and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Laura Dassow Walls is an American professor of English literature and currently the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.
The William Riley Parker Prize is the oldest award given by the Modern Language Association,the principal professional organization in the United States and Canada for scholars of language and literature. The Parker Prize is awarded each year for an “outstanding article”published in PMLA—the association's primary journal,and widely considered the most prestigious in the study of modern languages and literatures. It was first awarded in 1964 to David J. DeLaura,then a professor at the University of Texas at Austin,for his article,“Arnold and Carlyle,”which had been published in the March 1964 issue of PMLA.
Maurice Samuels is the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French at Yale University. He graduated with a BA in 1990 from Harvard University,where he also earned his MA (1995) and PhD (2000). Before moving to Yale in 2006,Samuels taught at the University of Pennsylvania. He specializes in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century France and in Jewish Studies,and is the author of books and articles on these and other topics. He is the inaugural director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism.
Brent Hayes Edwards is a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University.
The James Russell Lowell Prize is an annual prize given to an outstanding scholarly book by the Modern Language Association.
Aaron Santesso is a Canadian literary scholar and professor in the School of Literature,Media,and Communication at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary area of expertise lies in 17th and 18th-century literature,with published works cover a wide variety of topics within this broader category. Most notably,Santesso has published numerous works regarding surveillance in regards to literature and societal perceptions. His book,The Watchman in Pieces:Surveillance,Literature,and Liberal Personhood,which was cowritten with David Rosen,details the ways in which literature has shaped,and in turn been shaped by,surveillance and privacy practices since the Renaissance.
Harry Hayden Clark (1901–1971) was a professor of English,specializing in American literature. He was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1931–1932.
Diana Fuss is a professor of literature,film and feminist studies. She serves as Louis W. Fairchild Class of ‘24 Professor of English at Princeton University.
Gauri Viswanathan is an Indian American academic. She is the Class of 1933 Professor in the Humanities and Director of the South Asia Institute at Columbia University.