

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
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May 2, 2006 • 0sec
Kathleen Sullivan on the American Constitution
Professor Sullivan is the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University. She received a B.A. from Cornell in 1976 and a B.A. from Oxford in 1978 where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her J.D. from Harvard in 1981. Her broad experience in the practice of law includes being a clerk to Judge […]

Apr 18, 2006 • 0sec
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 1
Thomas Sheehan has been Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford since 1999. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He has been the recipient of many academic honors including: Ford Foundation Fellow (1983-85), Resident Scholar […]

Apr 18, 2006 • 0sec
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 2
Thomas Sheehan has been Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford since 1999. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He has been the recipient of many academic honors including: Ford Foundation Fellow (1983-85), Resident Scholar at […]

Apr 11, 2006 • 0sec
Cécile Alduy on American writers in Paris
A former student at the École Normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm, Professor Alduy received her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Reims in June 2003, where she wrote her dissertation on Renaissance poetry. Entitled “Nation, Self, and the Lure of Unity. Poetics and Genesis of a New French Genre, the “Amours” (France, 1544-1560),” her […]

Apr 4, 2006 • 0sec
Seth Lerer on the history of the book
Seth Lerer holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981. He joined the Stanford faculty as Professor of English in 1990, received a joint appointment in Comparative Literature in 1996, and served as Chair of the Department of […]

Mar 14, 2006 • 0sec
Lisa “Decca” Dornell on Love Poetry
Decca is the host of At the Cafe Bohemian, a world music show on KZSU, Stanford, where she is also the Public Affairs Director. She received a B.A. in Classics and an M.A. in Art History from San Francisco State University. When not on the air she can usually be found in a bookstore, a […]

Mar 7, 2006 • 0sec
Thomas Harrison on expressionism in the year 1910
Thomas Harrison is Professor of Italian at UCLA, where he has been since 1994. He recieved his B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College and his M.Phil. and Ph.D in Comparative Literature from CUNY. Before joining the faculty of UCLA in 1994 he taught in Italian and comparative literature programs at the University of Pennsylvania, New York […]

Feb 28, 2006 • 0sec
Marilyn Yalom on the cemeteries of America
Dr. Marilyn Yalom grew up in Washington D.C. and was educated at Wellesley College, the Sorbonne, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has been married to the psychiatrist Irvin Yalom for fifty years and is the mother of four children and the grandmother of five. She has been a professor of French and comparative literature, director […]

Feb 21, 2006 • 0sec
Paul Ehrlich on the Fate of the Earth
Paul R. Ehrlich received his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. Co-founder with Peter H. Raven of the field of coevolution, he has pursued long-term studies of the structure, dynamics, and genetics of natural butterfly populations. He has also been a pioneer in alerting the public to the problems of overpopulation, and in raising issues […]

Feb 7, 2006 • 0sec
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht on The Man Without Qualities
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature in the Departments of Comparative Literature, of French & Italian, of Spanish & Portuguese (by courtesy), and is affiliated with German Studies, and the Program in Modern Thought & Literature at Stanford University. He is also Professeur Associé au Département de Littérature comparée at the Université […]


