We have invited a dozen experts in their field to assist us.  The core faculty will consist of the art historian Alan Braddock, an assistant professor at Temple University who is currently the Associate Curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, and Joel Silver, Curator of Books at the Lilly Library. I am the director of the program.  A native of Germany who has taught at Harvard University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, I have been a Professor of English at Indiana University since 2006 and have been working on Audubon for more than a decade.  I have edited a collection of his Writings and Drawings for the Library of America, and most recently I appeared in the new PBS film “Drawn from Life:  John James Audubon,” directed by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey (both filmmakers will lecture at the Institute).  Alita Hornick, our department manager, is assisting me in the organization of the Institute.

In addition to the four of us, participants will hear from an interesting mix of literary scholars, art historians, museum curators, and archivists in the course of the institute.  Faculty members not yet mentioned include the historian of science Mark Barrow (Virginia Tech), the art historians Sarah Burns (Indiana University) and Jennifer Roberts (Harvard), the filmmakers Diane Garey and Larry Hott; the journalist Danny Heitman (Baton Rouge) ; and Joseph Goddu, director of Hirschl & Adler Galleries in New York.

Barrow, Mark, Associate Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech
Braddock, Alan, Associate Curator, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe
Burns, Sarah, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Fine Arts, Indiana University Bloomington
Garey, Diane, producer, Florentine Films
Gehret, Alan, Curator, The Audubon Memorial Museum, Henderson, KY
Goddu, Joseph, Director, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Govier, Katherine, writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Heitman, Danny, columnist, The Baton Rouge Advocate
Hott, Lawrence, director, Florentine Films
Knott, John, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Roberts, Jennifer, Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Sanders, Scott Russell, Distinguished Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington
Silver, Joel, Curator of Books, The Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington
Smith, Dave, Eliott Coleman Professor of Poetry and Department Chair, The Writing Seminars,
Johns Hopkins University
Smith, Jonathan, Professor of English, University of Michigan-Dearborn

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