| 2003 |
Dawn
Trouard
Professor of Modern American Fiction, University of Contral
Florida
[More about this Event] |
| 2002 |
Michael
Dirda
Writer and senior editor for The Washington Post Book World
[More about this Event] |
| 2001 |
Steven
Knapp
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, The
Johns Hopkins University
[More about this Event] |
| 2000 |
Jerome
McGann
John Stewart Bryan University Professor, University of Virginia
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| 1999 |
Deborah
Brandt
Professor of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Project
head with the National Research Center on English Learning and
Achievement (CELA) |
| 1998 |
Peter
Balakian
Professor of English, Colgate University |
| 1997 |
Paul
Fussell
Professor Emeritus of English,
University of Pennsylvania |
| 1996 |
Jane
Tompkins
Professor of English, Duke University |
| 1995 |
Jackson
R. Bryer
Professor of English, University of Maryland |
| 1994 |
John
Barth
Professor of English and Creative Writing Emeritus, The Johns
Hopkins University |
| 1993 |
Nancy
A. Walker
Professor of English and Director of Women's Studies, Vanderbilt
University |
| 1992 |
Jonathan
Yardley
Book Critic and Columnist, The Washington Post |
| 1991 |
Myra
Jehlen
Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1990 |
Daniel
Hoffman
Poet in Residence, Director of the Writing Program, University
of Pennsylvania |
| 1989 |
Richard
B. Sewell
Professor of English Emeritus, Yale University |
| 1988 |
Louis
D. Rubin Jr
University Distinguished Professor of English, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 1987 |
S.
Schoenbaum
Distinguished Professor of Renaissance Literature and Director,
Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies, University of Maryland,
College Park |
| 1986 |
M.H.
Abrams - Inaugural
Professor of English Emeritus, Cornell University |