Center for the Humanities

Director: Gerald Early Associate Director: Jian Leng

Home Page: http://cenhum.artsci.wustl.edu/ Email: cenhum@artsci.wustl.edu Telephone: (314) 935-5576

The Center for the Humanities was established at Washington University to: build on the strengths of its resident and visiting faculty writers, to serve as a focal point for writing excellence in all disciplines and in all cultures and to be a directory for writers and writing programs at Washington University, in St. Louis, the United States, and around the world; and to present the writer to the reader.

News Stories & Tip Sheets:

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"Celebrating Our Books" Faculty book colloquium to feature Pulitzer Prize-winner Louis Menand Nov. 17 Nov. 5, 2009 -- Louis Menand Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist and literary critic Louis Menand will present the keynote address for "Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors," the university's eighth annual faculty book colloquium, at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, in Graham Chapel. The event — organized by the Center for the Humanities and University Libraries — also will feature presentations by faculty members William Lowry, Ph.D., professor of political science, and Lori Watt, Ph.D., assistant professor of history and International & Area Studies.

"African American Literature Today" April 15 panel to discuss two new anthologies March 27, 2009 -- Three prominent writers will examine "African American Literature Today" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, in Hurst Lounge. The discussion — sponsored by the African & African-American Studies Program and by the Center for the Humanities, both in Arts & Sciences — will focus on a pair of new anthologies, Best African American Essays 2009 and Best African American Fiction 2009, both published by Bantam Books.

William Gass obit Feb. 12, 2009 --

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Faculty Experts:

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Gerald L. Early Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters Gerald L. Early Download Early is a noted essayist and American culture critic. A professor of English, of African & African American studies and of American culture studies, all in Arts & Sciences, Early is the author of several books, including The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American ... Expertise: American literature, African-American culture 1940-1960, Afro-American autobiography, non-fiction prose, baseball, jazz music, prizefighting, … Direct contact: (314) 935-5576 / glearly@wustl.edu

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Public still fascinated by aging Tyson MSNBC.com and 4 others June 6, 2005 -- Writer reflects on why the public is still interested in Mike Tyson, despite his decline as a boxer. WUSTL professor and cultural critic Gerald Early comments.

Book review - The End of Blackness The New York Times April 26, 2004 -- Book review of Debra Dickerson's The End of Blackness by Gerald Early, author and director of WUSTL Center for the Humanities. Early writes: "With the publication of ''The End of Blackness,'' a book not only about white racism but about black people's response to it, Debra J. Dickerson joins a growing and varied class of black public intellectuals that includes people like John McWhorter, Bell Hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Patricia Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Shelby Steele, Thulani Davis, Stanley Crouch, Greg Tate, Ellis Cose and Brent Staples. Their views are sufficiently different that they might be said to represent distinct factions among African-Americans and, no less relevant, speak to distinct factions of educated whites."