Twelfth Annual Undergraduate Conference on
English Language and Literature
March 14-15, 2003
featured speaker
Phillip
Lopate
Phillip Lopate is the author of three essay collections,
Bachelorhood
(1981),
Against Joie de Vivre (1989), and Portrait of My Body (1996);
two novels, Confessions of Summer (1979) and The Rug Merchant
(1987); two poetry collections, The Eyes Don't Always Want to Stay
Open (1972) and The Daily Round (1976); and a memoir of his
teaching experiences, Being With Children (1975). He has edited
two anthologies: Journal of a Living Experiment (1979), and The
Art of the Personal Essay (1994, short excerpt of introduction). He
writes regularly for a variety of magazines and literary journals on topics
ranging from movies to architecture and urban form to travel.He
has worked with children for many years as a writer-in-the-schools and
has taught creative writing and literature to graduate and undergraduate
students at the University of Houston, Bennington College, and Columbia
University. His works have appeared in Best American Essays, The
Paris Review, Pushcart Prize Annuals, and many other publications.
A recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships,
he lives in Brooklyn New York, and is Adams Professor of the Humanities
at Hofstra University.
W. P. Kinsella, originally scheduled as the featured speaker, was refused entrance to the United States at the Canadian border in Vancouver Thursday morning.