Center Events:
Speaker Series
David Damrosch
(Columbia University)
November 1-2, 2000
A
specialist in modern literature, Professor Damrosch is also interested in
narrative theory, hermeneutics, ancient literature, and the Bible. He is the
author of The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of
Biblical Literature (Harper and Row, 1987; Cornell, 1991); We Scholars:
Changing the Culture of the University (Harvard UP, 1995); a study of
academic culture, Meetings of the Mind; What Is World Literature? (Princeton
UP, 2003); and articles on Freud, Kenneth Burke, Kleist, Wordsworth, Norse
sagas, Bernard of Clarivaux, and Aztec poetry. He is general editor of The
Longman Anthology of British Literature and of The Longman Anthology of
World Literature (2004). For 2001-2003 he was President of the American
Comparative Literature Association. To go to David's professional web site,
click
here.
