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Michael Bérubé
Michael Bérubé

Michael Bérubé, the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, will deliver a lecture on Monday, Sept. 23, at 4:10 p.m., in the Taylor Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium.  His lecture, titled “The Value -- and the Values -- of the Humanities,” is part of Hamilton’s Highlighting the Humanities series and is free and open to the public.

 

Bérubé teaches cultural studies and American literature at Penn State. He is the author of several books on cultural studies, disability rights, liberal politics and debates in higher education, and since 2004 has been a blogger on these and other topics. Bérubé was the 2012 president of the Modern Language Association, and served as vice president from 2010-2012. He also served on the National Council of the American Association of University Professors from 2005 to 2011, and now sits on the AAUP's Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

 

Bérubé's blog, which he began in January 2004, mixed his perspective on these professional and political issues with a variety of other subjects, ranging from his family life to music to professional hockey. His academic pursuits include American literature, African-American literature, cultural studies, critical theory, and disability studies, the last of which stems partly from his experience with his son Jamie, who has Down Syndrome; Bérubé's life with Jamie is the subject of his book Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child (1996).  He more recently has written several columns and op-eds about the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal at Penn State.

 

Bérubé earned his B.A. from Columbia University in 1982 and his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 1989.

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