Friday 13 April (3222 Angell Hall)
10:00-11:30
Panel 1, “American Culture”
Eric J. Sundquist
— UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature
Books:
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (Harvard, 2005); To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (Harvard, 1992)
Bio:
Eric J. Sundquist is the UCLA Foundation Professor of Literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Professor Sundquist received his B.A. from the University of Kansas and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. He has also taught at the University of California, Berkeley, and Vanderbilt University and is the author of a number of books, including Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America (2005); To Wake the Nations: Race in the Making of American Literature (1992), which received the Christian Gauss Award from Phi Beta Kappa and the James Russell Lowell Award from the Modern Language Association; The Hammers of Creation: Folk Culture in Modern African American Literature (1993); Faulkner: The House Divided (1985); and Home as Found: Authority and Genealogy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (1979). He has edited essay collections devoted to Mark Twain, Ralph Ellison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and contributed to the Cambridge History of American Literature (reprinted as Empire and Slavery in American Literature, 1820-1865). From 1997 to 2002, he was Dean of the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. In 1997 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.