The Humanities Institute is pleased to announce a partnership with the American Academy in Berlin.
The American Academy in Berlin was established in 1994. Its primary goal is to foster greater understanding and dialogue between the people of the United States and the people of Germany through its presence in Berlin, a city with which the United States should maintain its unique cultural, social, political and historical links.
The institute and the academy will cosponsor a lecture series that will bring to Ohio State former fellows of the American Academy in Berlin, who, in recent years, have included such award-winning writers as Jonathan Lethem, Dexter Filkins and George Packer.
The first lecture in the series is scheduled for January 15, 2015 and will feature Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities and director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University. A poet and critic, she teaches the history of poetry, poetics and issues in aesthetics.
Stewart’s most recent books of criticism are The Poet's Freedom: A Notebook on Making and Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, which won the Christian Gauss Award. A former MacArthur Fellow, Stewart served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2005, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.