Penn
Humanities Forum Co-Director:
Peter Stallybrass
Dr.
Peter Stallybrass, the Walter H. and
Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in
the Humanities and Professor of English,
has been named to a three-year term
as co-director of the Penn Humanities
Forum effective July 1, SAS Dean Samuel
H. Preston announced. Dr. Stallybrass
joins Dr. Wendy Steiner, Richard L.
Fisher Professor of English, who launched
the Forum in March 1999 as its founding
director.
"We
are delighted that Peter has agreed
to join forces with Wendy in leading
the Forum. With not one but two of
our most distinguished humanities
professors at the helm, the Forum
will no doubt have an even greater
impact on the intellectual life of
the School, the University, and the
Philadelphia community," said
Dean Preston.
Dr.
Stallybrass teaches the Renaissance
and is a noted authority on the history
of the book and material culture,
with a particular interest in theories
of the body and of transgression.
He also directs Penn's Center
for the History of Material Texts
and this year served as Topic Faculty
Advisor on The Book for the
Humanities Forum. He is supervisor
of the English Institute and co-editor
of the New Cultural Studies series
for Penn Press.
He
received the James Russell Lowell
Prize of the MLA for his latest book, Renaissance
Clothing and the Materials of Memory with
Ann Rosalind Jones. His other books
include The Politics and Poetics
of Transgression with Allon White
and O Casaco de Marx: Roupas, Memria,
Dor, a collection of essays on
Marx, materiality, and memory.
He
won the Lindback Award in 2000 and
the SAS Ira Abrams Award for Teaching
in 1997.
Almanac, Vol. 49, No. 34, May 27, 2003
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