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4/16/07
SLU'S STEVEN WHITE AWARDED FULBRIGHT & PISKOR LECTURESHIP
CANTON - St. Lawrence University Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures
Steven F. White has been selected for a Fulbright Senior Specialists project and
has also been named the Frank P. Piskor Faculty Lecturer at St. Lawrence. For
both projects, White will be studying ecology and literature.
White's Piskor Lecture, to be given on campus in the spring of 2008, is on
"Trees and Rivers: Poetry and Ecology in Latin America." He plans an ecocritical
study, in English, of Nicaraguan poet Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1912-2002) and
Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), with a collection
of photographs illustrating the different species of trees and specific
rivers that these poets describe in their work.
The Piskor Faculty Lectureship was established in 1979 to encourage original
and continued research among St. Lawrence faculty members, to recognize and
honor distinguished scholarship and to afford the opportunity for faculty to
share their learning with the academic community.
The Fulbright Senior Specialists Program is designed to provide short-term
academic opportunities (two to six weeks) for U.S. faculty and professionals.
Shorter grant lengths give specialists greater flexibility to pursue a grant
that works best with their current academic or professional commitments.
The Fulbright Program, America's flagship international educational exchange
activity, is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational
and Cultural Affairs. Over its 60 years of existence, thousands of U.S. faculty
and professionals have taught, studied or conducted research abroad, and
thousands of their counterparts from other countries have engaged in similar
activities in the United States.
White, who has also been a Fulbright Fellow, will pursue a project on ecology
and literature, as well as curricular development, at the National Autonomous
University of Nicaragua in Managua and León in July.
White is the author of the 2004 book El mundo más que humano en la poesía de
Pablo Antonio Cuadao: un estudio ecocrítico ("The More-Than-Human-World in the
Poetry of Pablo Antonio Cuadra: An Ecocritical Study"), presenting Cuadra's
poetry from the perspective of ecocriticism, which is the study of literature
in relation to the physical environment. He also edited and translated Poets
of Nicaragua and Birth of the Sun: Selected Poems of Pablo Antonio Cuadra (1935-1985).
A graduate of Williams College with a master's degree and Ph.D. from the University of
Oregon, White joined the St. Lawrence faculty in 1987. He is the author of several
books of poetry and has published multimedia pieces combining spoken word, music with
poems and translations. In addition, White has edited and translated several volumes
of poetry by authors including Rubén Darío and Federico García Lorca.
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More information: Professor Steven White, from the Modern Languages and Literatures Web site
Caribbean and Latin American Studies
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