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Nothing is more characteristic of modern literature than its disco very and canonization of the primal, non-ethical energies (.) Lionel Trilling, On the Teaching of Modern Literature Any opportunity I [...]

Gerald M. Moser, the US-based pioneering scholar and professor of lusophone African literatures, passed away, at the age of 90, on 2 March 2005. I am truly honored to have [...]

Over the years I learned that my first meeting with Everett Emerson was characteristic of his generosity, and thus, I suspect, of many readers' experiences with him. It was at [...]

The author discusses his personal and professional relationship with James L. Kinneavy. Their work in supporting this journal, Kinneavy's love of learning and teaching, and his widespread scholarly recognition are described.

This article explores the significance of English professor Robert Kroetsch's work. Kroetsch's political beliefs, his approach to language, and his awareness of the existentialist perspective are discussed.

It is no exaggeration to say the death on March 3 of Professor John Conteh-Xiorgan came as a severe shock to all of us involved in African literary and cultural [...]

One way of understanding the importance of Roger Luckhurst's contributions to sf studies is through Raymond Williams's 1958 essay 'Culture is Ordinary,' which defines culture as 'a whole way of [...]

All who knew him well loved George for his abundant humanity. His appetite for language and ideas was gargantuan. His rare and absolute delight in the achievement of friends was [...]

The door to Everett Emerson's office was always open. He would look up, delighted, rising to meet us as though our visits were not the interruptions that they surely often [...]

A youthful, endearingly gangly Professor Jerome Buckley presided over a graduate seminar I took at Columbia in the mid fifties. Like scores of his other students, I attribute the subsequent [...]

On both sides of the Atlantic, the return on stocks or investments has continued to rise, economic growth has been slow or non-existent, and inequality--between the extremely wealthy, the very [...]

The author describes the life and work of this Middle Age and Renaissance scholar. Their relationship's beginning when the author was Brown's student, how Brown influenced his choice to become an English professor, and Brown's enthusiastic approach to all of life are discussed.

Carl Stepp has a reach that is national, and like a deep spring. Henry Adams said it: 'A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.' A [...]

I knew Jim Welsh for more than forty years. We first met in 1967 at the University of Kansas, where I was an undergraduate in the School of Design and [...]

G. W. Bowersock, as Peter Thonemann remarks this week, writes short books when other equally distinguished ancient historians prefer fatter tomes. 'Trust him', our critic observes: when he selects a [...]

If you've read the announcement of this session in the SBL program book--and I suspect many of you have, or else you wouldn't have decided to come to this lecture [...]

Above the columns of Butler Library at Columbia University, inscribed in the stone frieze, you read permanent testimony that some writers are in fact important: Homer, Virgil, Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, [...]

I remember George Sanderson as a big man. A very big man. That is, he had broad shoulders and a large heart, both physically and metaphorically. He personified the old [...]

David Cook first came to Makerere on a visiting basis about 1962 before returning to the same academy on a full-time basis as a lecturer, eventually climbing to the top [...]

Before the customary selection of essays for this issue, we present eleven tributes to the memory of James ('Jim') M. Welsh, co-founder of Literature/Film Ouarterly, who passed away last October. [...]

At Jim Welsh's memorial service on October 17, several colleagues spoke of the enormous, pioneering contribution Jim made to literary adaptation in film studies. Literature/Film Quarterly, as his creation in [...]

Eloise Knapp Hay died at six in the evening of April 30, 1996, of inoperable brain cancer. She was the best friend--or a best friend--to a lot of people, many [...]

In the index of any book by John S. Dunne, CSC, you can find Martin Buber bumping right up against Ray Bradbury, and Sartre all cozy with--well, Satan. Tolkien and [...]