1982

FELLOWS

Elisabeth M. Arbuckle, University of Puerto Rico
Alexandra A.T. Barratt, University of Waikato
Ilmars Birznieks, Berea College Kentucky
George G. Dekker, Stanford University
William C. Dowling, University of New Mexico
Robin W. Fiddian, University College Galway
Fred W. Freeman, University of Edinburgh
Peter D. Garside, University College Cardiff
Herbert H. Kaplan, Indiana University
Terry E. Miller, Kent State University
James Moore, Concordia University
Arden Reed, Pomona College Claremont
T.J. Sienkewicz, Howard University
M.A. Stewart, University of Lancaster
Michael Timko, City University of New York
Juefei Wang, Nanking University
Garry Wills, Northwestern University
Elemire Zella, University of Rome

EVENTS

Visiting speakers include Gabriel Josipovici, Priscilla Bawcutt and Carlisle Moore.
The Institute supports a range of conferences, including the Sixteenth Symposium of Byzantine Studies and a symposium on medieval Islamic arts in Persia and Turkey. It also hosts the conference The Rhetoric of Praise and Blame in September, in association with the Department of French.

James Moore: “The Institute has been indispensable for my own work as a publishing scholar. The sense of community and collegiality among the Fellows was remarkable. It has remained, for me, the model of what a centre for research and scholarship should be: welcoming, stimulating, collegial.”
William C. Dowling: “Daiches was to me a legendary figure, not least because of the company in which I knew him to have moved through life. He’d taught at Oxford, Cambridge and many U.S. universities, most famously at Cornell alongside both Vladimir Nabokov and Meyer Abrams. Daiches had been Head of Cornell’s Division of Literature when Nabokov taught there… it had been Daiches who suggested the course in the novel that would make Nabokov legendary as a teacher and critic as well as a literary genius… what seemed magical was sitting across from someone who’d actually known the author of Pnin and Pale Fire on a day-to-day basis.”