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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2008 Faculty Fellows Jane Maienschein to launch Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows' Series Feb. 5-6 Jan. 25, 2008 -- Jane Maienschein, the Regents' Professor and Chair of the Program for Science and Society at Arizona State University, will speak on "From Transplantation to Translation: Why History Matters in Stem Cell Research" at 4 p.m. Feb. 5 in Rebstock Hall, Room 322. Maienschein is the first of six speakers appearing this spring as part of the Center for the Humanities' 2008 Faculty Fellows' Lecture and Workshop Series. In addition, Maienschein will lead a workshop titled "Embryos in Context" at 12 p. m. Feb. 6.

"Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors" Famed novelist Joyce Carol Oates to present keynote address Dec. 3 Nov. 20, 2007 -- Courtesy photo Joyce Carol Oates Download Joyce Carol Oates, one of America's most important and distinguished authors, three times nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature, will deliver the keynote address, titled "The Writer's (Secret) Life: Woundedness, Rejection, and Inspiration," for "Celebrating Our Books, Recognizing Our Authors," Washington University's sixth annual faculty book colloquium.

Fourth Annual Children's Film Symposium Washington University and Cinema St. Louis to host screenings and talks Nov. 15 and 17 Nov. 8, 2007 -- Washington University's Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host their Fourth Annual Children's Film Symposium Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 15 and 17. Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the event will feature a keynote address by Neal Gabler, author of Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination (2006) and a Q&A with Marion Comer, writer and director of the film 48 Angels (2006).

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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."