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 Dr.
Peter Conn, the Andrea Mitchell Term Professor of English,
edited the special Penn Reading Project edition of the Autobiography.
His other publications include The Divided Mind: Ideology and
Imagination in America, 1898-1917 (Cambridge University Press,
1983; paperback edition, 1988), and Literature in America
(Cambridge University Press, 1989), which was a main selection
of Associated Book Clubs (UK). Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
(Cambridge, 1996; Paperback 1998), was chosen as a New York
Times Notable Book for that year, was included among the five
finalists for the National Book Critics Circle award in biography,
and received the Athenaeum Award. Conn's books have been translated
into eight languages, including Chinese, Spanish, and Korean.
He has lectured on a number of American artists, including Edward
Hopper, William Christenberry, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Maxfield
Parrish, Charles Sheeler, and The Eight.
A John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Fellow, Conn has also directed National Endowment for the Humanities
(NEH) seminars for college and high school teachers. He has received
several awards for distinguished teaching, and has served as literary
consultant on numerous television projects, including "The American
Short Story" series, and adaptations of novels by James Baldwin
and Saul Bellow. He is currently serving as principal advisor
to Oprah's Book Club which is reading The Good Earth.
In 1993, Conn was named visiting
professor at the University of Nanjing, in the People's Republic
of China.
Conn has served as Interim Provost,
Deputy Provost, Dean of the College, chair of the graduate groups
in American Civilization and English, and Faculty Master of Robert
Hill College House and Community House. He is also Board Chairman
Emeritus of Pearl S. Buck International.
Peter and his wife Terry have four
children: Steven, David, Alison, and Jennifer.
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