Please join us for the Forum on Higher Education in the Humanities, sponsored by the Department of English, with funding from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School, and the English Graduate Student Association
Guest Speaker: Marjorie Garber
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English, Harvard University
Topic: “After the Humanities”
Wednesday, February 9th, 3 p.m.
Information Commons, 4th Floor
A reception will follow. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Marjorie Garber is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at Harvard University, where she is also Chair of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies and Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. A prolific scholar and public intellectual, Professor Garber has published fifteen books and seven collections of essays. Newsweek magazine chose her Shakespeare After All as one of the five best nonfiction books of 2004, writing that “Garber’s is the most exhilarating seminar room you’ll ever enter.” Her scholarship on higher education and university culture includes Academic Instincts (2001) and A Manifesto for Literary Study (2003). Her recent book, Patronizing the Arts (2008), argues for the centrality of the arts and culture in education and offers a vision of the university as patron of the arts.
