

Entitled Opinions (about Life and Literature)
Robert Harrison
The narcotic of intelligent conversation
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May 23, 2006 • 0sec
Bissera Pentcheva on the Virgin Mary
Bissera Pentcheva is Assitant Professor of Art History at Stanford University. She received her B. A. from Dartmouth College and Ph.D. from the Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University. She was a pre-doctoral fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute at Washington D.C., a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University at the […]

May 23, 2006 • 0sec
Ken Berman on Jazz
Pianist and composer Ken Berman has appeared on the famed stages of Carnegie Hall in New York, Detroit's Fox Theater, The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and The Sunside in Paris; he's equally at home in the bohemian grooves of the Knitting Factory and Smoke. Ken Berman has performed and recorded with Bob Moses, […]

May 16, 2006 • 0sec
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is Life?”
Dr. Michael Hendrickson is Professor of Pathology at the Stanford University Medical School and Director Surgical Pathology Laboratory at the Stanford Medical Center. His research interests in this field include: diagnosis of progressive stages of uterine cancer; classification of ovarian tumors; breast cancer diagnosis and prognostic factors, soft tissue neoplasm, uterine mesenchymal neoplasm. In addition […]

May 16, 2006 • 0sec
Dr. Michael Hendrickson on “What is cancer?”
Dr. Michael Hendrickson is Professor of Pathology at the Stanford University Medical School and Director Surgical Pathology Laboratory at the Stanford Medical Center. His research interests in this field include: diagnosis of progressive stages of uterine cancer; classification of ovarian tumors; breast cancer diagnosis and prognostic factors, soft tissue neoplasm, uterine mesenchymal neoplasm. In addition to […]

May 9, 2006 • 0sec
Marjorie Perloff on the European Avantgarde
Professor Marjorie Perloff is Professor Emerita of English at Stanford and Scholar in Residence at USC. She was educated at Barnard College, where she received her B.A. (1953) and at the Catholic University of America where she received her Ph.D. in English (1965). She teaches courses and writes on twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics, […]

May 2, 2006 • 0sec
Kathleen Sullivan on the American Constitution
Professor Sullivan is the Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University. She received a B.A. from Cornell in 1976 and a B.A. from Oxford in 1978 where she was a Marshall Scholar. She received her J.D. from Harvard in 1981. Her broad experience in the practice of law includes being a clerk to Judge […]

Apr 18, 2006 • 0sec
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 1
Thomas Sheehan has been Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford since 1999. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He has been the recipient of many academic honors including: Ford Foundation Fellow (1983-85), Resident Scholar […]

Apr 18, 2006 • 0sec
Thomas Sheehan on the Resurrection – Part 2
Thomas Sheehan has been Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford since 1999. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He has been the recipient of many academic honors including: Ford Foundation Fellow (1983-85), Resident Scholar at […]

Apr 11, 2006 • 0sec
Cécile Alduy on American writers in Paris
A former student at the École Normale Supérieure rue d’Ulm, Professor Alduy received her Ph.D. in French Literature from the University of Reims in June 2003, where she wrote her dissertation on Renaissance poetry. Entitled “Nation, Self, and the Lure of Unity. Poetics and Genesis of a New French Genre, the “Amours” (France, 1544-1560),” her […]

Apr 4, 2006 • 0sec
Seth Lerer on the history of the book
Seth Lerer holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.A. and M.A. from Oxford University, and he received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1981. He joined the Stanford faculty as Professor of English in 1990, received a joint appointment in Comparative Literature in 1996, and served as Chair of the Department of […]


