Washington University in St. Louis
The Center for the Humanities
Dedicated to Letters and Humanistic Research and Their Presence in Public Life
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Under
the guidance of its advisory board, the Center for the Humanities
at Washington University expanded its mission and, as a reflection
of this growth, in September 2003 became The Center for
the Humanities with the tagline, Dedicated to Letters and
Humanistic Research and Their Presence in the Public Life. Dr.
Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters, became Director
of the IWC in 2001. The International Writers Center opened in October
1990, with William Gass, the David May Distinguished University Professor
in the Humanities, as Director and Lorin Cuoco as Associate Director.
The center was established
to build on the strengths of its resident and visiting faculty writers;
to serve as a focal point for writing excellence in all disciplines
and in all cultures; to be a directory for writers and writing programs
at Washington University, in St. Louis, in the United States, and
around the world; and to present the writers to the reader. To inaugurate
the center, the University's library mounted an exhibit, A Temple
of Texts: Fifty Literary Pillars, consisting of 50 works of literature
and philosophy that have influenced Gass as a writer. A limited edition
catalogue with Gass's comments about each work was published in conjunction
with the exhibit.
The Center for
the Humanities
Campus Box 1071,
Old McMillan Hall, Rm S101
One Brookings Drive
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
cenhum@artsci.wustl.edu
tel (314)
935-5576,
fax (314)-935-4889