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Susan Stewart, "The Life of Ruins"

January 15, 2015
9:30PM - 11:00PM
Wexner Center Film/Video Theater

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Add to Calendar 2015-01-15 21:30:00 2015-01-15 23:00:00 Susan Stewart, "The Life of Ruins" Event Host: Humanities Institute The Humanities Institute, in partnership with the American Academy in Berlin, hosts Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities and director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University, for a lecture on "The Life of Ruins." 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.Read more on the partnership between the Humanities Institute and the American Academy in Berlin. Wexner Center Film/Video Theater College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
Event Host: Humanities Institute


The Humanities Institute, in partnership with the American Academy in Berlin, hosts Susan Stewart, Avalon Foundation University Professor of the Humanities and director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University, for a lecture on "The Life of Ruins." 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.

Read more on the partnership between the Humanities Institute and the American Academy in Berlin.

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