Historical December 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Parkview resident William H. Gass, David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities at Washington University in St. Louis, has been appointed director of the university’s new International Writers Center, according to Martin H. Israel, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
The International Writers Center, which opened Oct. 1, 1990, is temporarily housed in rooms 101 and 103 of the university’s Busch Hall.
The center is designed to serve as a focal point for writers who are interested in international issues. Conferences and symposia on international topics, such as censorship, exile and imprisonment, will be held at the center as well as lectures, readings and social gatherings.
In addition, a newsletter highlighting center activities will be published. “Professor Gass is highly regarded as a writer in the international community,” says Israel. “His influence and ideas will be invaluable. I look forward to the center becoming an exciting place for our students, faculty and the residents of St. Louis.” A member of the Washington University faculty since 1969, Gass won the National Book Critics Circle award for the most distinguished work on criticism in 1985.
He received the honor for Habitations of the Word, a collection of essays on literature, philosophy and language.
He won an American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction in 1975 and its Medal of Merit for Fiction in 1979.
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William H. Gass. Photographer not credited.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, December 1990.
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