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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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