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Show Noted Authors Join Summer EnglishFaculty Two well-known authors will join the University of Utah summer sum-mer faculty as visiting professors profes-sors of English. They are Dr. Robert L. Peters, professor of English at the University of California at Riverside, and Dr. Benjamin DeMott, chairman and professor of English, Amherst College, Massachusetts. DR. PETERS, who will be teaching a class on Whitman and modern American poetry, as well as conducting a seminar in Victorian literature, was recently recent-ly awarded with one of the nation's na-tion's highest scholastic honors, the Guggenheim Fellowship. Following Fol-lowing his teaching assignment this summer, he will travel to London under the auspices of the fellowship. Dr. DeMott was also a Guggenheim Gug-genheim Fellow in 1963, and a John Harvard Fellow in 1952. He is the author of several books. Among his more recent works are "The Body's Cage," "Hells and Benefits," a book of essays, and "Songs for a Lost Son," a compilation of his own poetry. The courses Dr. DeMott plans to teach include Shakesperian literature and a study of the Continental novel, including such authors as Dostoevsky, Kafka, Mann, Gide, and Camus. |
