April 7, 2008

The Wolfe Institute Presents

This year’s Robert L. Hess Scholar in Residence will be Marc Shell, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English at Harvard University.   
 
Professor Shell has a series of lectures scheduled from April 10 through April 16, 2008.
 
Marc Shell
A John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellow, Professor Shell is the Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature and Professor of English and American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is also professor in the university’s undergraduate Literature Concentration and the graduate program in the History of American Civilization.
    Born in Québec in 1947, Professor Shell received a B.A. in English language and literature and also in social thought and institutions from Stanford University in 1968. He earned an M.A. in 1972 and a Ph.D. in 1975 in comparative literature from Yale University. Prior to his appointment at Harvard, Professor Shell taught at the State
University of New York at Buffalo from 1974 to 1986 and headed the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst from 1986 to 1991. At Harvard he has been the chairperson of the Literature Concentration and the Department of Comparative Literature.

List of the events open to all members of the Brooklyn College community

For further information about Professor Shell’s scholarship, visit his Web site: www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mshell