The Department of English presents PAST BRACKENRIDGE DISTINGUISHED VISITING PROFESSORS Dr. Shelley

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Michael Grant Ramón Saldivar Fisher Fishkin Robert Audi University of Notre Dame Cambridge University Stanford University Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities, Stanford University Houston Baker, Jr. Peter van Inwagen Rosaura Sánchez University of Pennsylvania University of Notre Dame University of California at San Diego Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Jacques Barzun Esther Jacobson-Tepfer Columbia University University of Oregon Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr. Harvard University "Originally of Missouri... Sacvan Bercovitch R.W.B. Lewis Now of the Universe': Harvard University Yale University Charles Segal Harvard University Mark Twain and the World” Derek Brewer A.A. Long 7:00-9:00 p.m. Cambridge University University of California, Berkeley Alexander Shurvanov University of So a, Bulgaria University Room - BB 2.06.04 David Crystal James Mallory University of Wales, Bangor Queen’s University, Belfast Werner Sollors Harvard University Friday, April 12, 2013 Joan Ferrante Richard Martin Columbia University Stanford University Ilan Stavans Amherst College "Reading America Through Sir Kenneth James Dover Walter Mignolo Literary Landmarks from University of St. Andrews, Duke University Victor Villanueva Stanford University Washington State University Walden Pond to Wounded Knee: Cherrie Moraga John Fisher Stanford University Linda Wagner-Martin Literature Through Place and University of Tennessee University of North Carolina Place Through Literature” Jay Parini at Chapel Hill Thomas Flint Middlebury College 2:00-4:00 p.m. University of Notre Dame Linda Zagzebski Ballroom 1 - UC 1.106 Donald Pizer University of Oklahoma April 8-12, 2013 William L. Ford Tulane University McMaster University

The Brackenridge Distinguished Visiting Professorship was inaugurated in 1987. With the generous support of the George W. Brackenridge Foundation, the University of Texas at San Antonio has been able to invite distinguished scholars in literature and humanities to engage members of the campus community and the city of San Antonio in public lectures, classroom visits, and faculty symposia as part of their week-long residencies. About Shelley Fisher Fishkin chair of the MLA Nonfiction Prose Division. She has given keynote talks during the last nine years at conferences in Beijing, Cambridge, Coimbra, Copenhagen, Dublin, Hong Kong, Hyder- helley Fisher Fishkin's broad, interdisciplinary research interests have led her to abad, Kolkata, Kunming, Kyoto, Lisbon, Nanjing, Regensburg, Seoul, St. Petersburg, Taipei, focus on topics including the ways in which American writers' apprenticeships in Tokyo, and across the U.S. Her research has been featured twice on the front page of the New journalism shaped their poetry and fiction; the influence of African American voices York Times, and twice on the front page of the New York Times Arts section. In 2009 she was on canonical American literature; the need to desegregate American literary awarded the Mark Twain Circle's Certificate of Merit "for long and distinguished service in the studies; American theatre history; the development of feminist criticism; the elucidation of the work, thought, life and art of Mark Twain." relationship between public history and literary history; literature and animal S welfare; the role literature can play in the fight against racism; the place of humor The Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Stanford, she is and satire in movements for social justice; digital humanities; and the challenge of doing Director of Stanford's American Studies Program. She is a member of the Board of Governors transnational American Studies. Although much of her work has centered on Mark Twain, she of the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California, and is a founding Editor of has also published on writers including Gloria Anzaldúa, John Dos Passos, Frederick Douglass, the online Journal of Transnational American Studies. She is a member of the international jury Theodore Dreiser, W.E.B. Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Erica for the prestigious 2013 Francqui Prize awarded to an outstanding young scholar in Belgium. Jong, Maxine Hong Kingston, Theresa Malkiel, Tillie Olsen, and Walt Whitman. Much of her work has focused on recovering and interpreting voices that were silenced, marginalized, or Her current project is a collaborative transnational, bilingual research project dealing with the ignored in America's past. Chinese Railroad Workers whose labor helped establish the wealth that allowed Leland Stanford to build Stanford University. The goal of the Chinese Railroad Workers Project at After receiving her B.A.from Yale College (summa cum laude, phi beta kappa), she stayed on at Stanford is to try to recover their experience and their world more fully than ever before, and to Yale for a masters degree in English and a Ph.D. in American Studies, and was Director of the understand how these workers have figured in cultural memory in the U.S. and China. She is Poynter Fellowship in Journalism there. She taught American Studies and English at the Univer- co-director of the CRWP with Gordon H. Chang, the Olive H. Palmer Professor of Humanities at sity of Texas from 1985 to 2003, and was Chair of the Department of American Studies. She is Stanford, Professor of History, and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies. The Chinese a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, England, where she was a Visiting Fellow, Railroad Workers Project has received support from the President of Stanford, the UPS Fund at has twice been a Visiting Scholar at Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. and has been a Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, was a Fulbright Distinguished Lecturer in Japan, and was the winner of a Harry H. Ransom Teaching Excellence Award at the University of Texas.

Dr. Fishkin is the author, editor or co-editor of over forty books and has published over one hundred articles, essays, columns, and reviews. Her work has been translated into Arabic, Lecture Program Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Georgian, and Italian, and has been published in English-language journals in Turkey, Japan, and Korea. She is the author of: From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America (winner of a Frank Luther Mott/Kappa Wednesday, April 10, 2013 Tau Alpha Award for outstanding research in journalism history) (Johns Hopkins, 1985); Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices (selected as an "Outstanding Academic Book " by Choice) (Oxford, 1993); Lighting Out for the Territory: Reflections on Mark Twain and "Originally of Missouri...Now of the Universe': American Culture (Oxford, 1997); and Feminist Engagements: Forays Into American Literature Mark Twain and the World” and Culture (selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title" by Choice) (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009). She is the editor of the 29-volume Oxford Mark Twain (Oxford, 1996; Paperback reprint 7:00-9:00 p.m. edition, 2009), the Oxford Historical Guide to Mark Twain (Oxford, 2002), "Is He Dead? " A New Comedy by Mark Twain (University of California, 2003), Mark Twain's Book of Animals University Room - BB 2.06.04 (University of California Press, 2009), and The Mark Twain Anthology: Great Writers on his LIfe and Work (Library of America, 2010). She is also a producer of the adaptation of Twain's "Is He Dead?" which had its world debut on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre in 2007, and was nominated for a Tony Award. She is the co-editor of Listening to Silences: New Essays in Friday, April 12, 2013 Feminist Criticism (Oxford, 1994); People of the Book: Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity (Wisconsin, 1996); The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights in America (M.E. Sharpe, 1997); "Reading America Through Literary Landmarks Mark Twain at the Turn of the Century, 1890-1910 (Arizona Quarterly, 2005); 'Sport of the Gods' from Walden Pond to Wounded Knee: and Other Essential Writing by Paul Laurence Dunbar (Random House, 2005), Anthology of American Literature, ninth edition (Prentice-Hall, 2006), Concise Anthology of American Literature Through Place and Place Through Literature” Literature, seventh edition (Prentice-Hall, 2011), and a special issue of African American Review devoted to the work of Paul Laurence Dunbar (autumn 2007). From 1993 to 2003 she co-edited 2:00-4:00 p.m. Oxford University Press's "Race and American Culture " book series with Arnold Rampersad. Ballroom 1 - UC 1.106 She has served as President of the American Studies Association and the Mark Twain Circle of America. In addition, she was co-founder of the Charlotte Perkins Gilman society, and has been