Friday 13 April (3222 Angell Hall)
10:00-11:30
Panel 1, “American Culture”
Ronald Bush
— Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature,
Oxford University
“Tennis by the Book”
Books:
Prehistories of the Future: The Primitivist Project and the Culture of Modernism (ed. with Elazar Barkan). Stanford University Press, 1995. (pb.); Claiming the Stones / Naming the Bones: Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity (ed. with Elazar Barkan). Getty, 2002.
Bio:
Ronald Bush has taught at Harvard and Caltech and since 1977 has been Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford University. He has published books on Pound, Eliot, Modernist Primitivism, and Cultural Property and has published a number of essays on modern British and American literature. Currently he is working on a genetic study of Pound's Pisan Cantos, a critical edition of the Pisan Cantos, and a critical biography of James Joyce.