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Show Prof, to Read Paner I JAMES HARRISON James W. Harrison, associate professor of German at Southern Utah State College, has been invited to read a scholarly paper April 11 in Ogden at spring meetings of the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Dr. Harrison's paper, "The Tristan of Gottfried and Wagner: Prolegomenon to a Holistic Approach," will be read at a session on general literature. The section leader will be S.S. Moorty, associate professor of English at SUSC. Harrison read another of his papers, "Schopenhauer, Wagner, and the Ring," for a meeting of the Utah Academy in December 1977, and chaired a academy session on general literature last spring. The SUSC faculty member received a National Endowment En-dowment for the Humanities grant to attend a seminar entitled "The Medieval ' World View" at Indiana University during the summer of 1978. At that seminar, he read another of his papers which deals with comparisons between the Grail Temple in Albrecht's "Der jungereTiturel" and in temple workshop in the Middle East as influenced by Hebrew temple rites. Harrison received BA and MA degrees in German from the University of Utah. He was the recipient of a Kent James Brown Fellowship at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where he received a PhD in German Ger-man language and literature, with emphasis on the Middle Ages. Along with classes in beginning German and German literature, Harrison teaches a course in b eginning Latin at SUSC. He was a percussionist for the Utah Symphony Orchestra from 1967-1971, and now teaches a music appreciation ap-preciation class and is a percussionist for the SUSC music department. Harrison joined the SUSC faculty in 1976. |