DAVID M. ROBINSON

David M. Robinson has held three Fellowships at the Center for the Humanities and served on its Advisory Board. He was named Interim Director of the Center in the Fall of 2001, and after a national search, he was named Director in the Fall of 2003.

He is Oregon Professor of English and Distinguished Professor of American Literature in the Department of English, where he teaches American literature and American Studies.

He has held Fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has also directed nine Summer Seminars for Teachers through grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also been Fulbright Guest Professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism (Cornell University Press, 2004)

The Political Emerson: Essential Writings on Politics and Social Reform (Beacon Press, 2004)

The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Writings (Beacon Press, 2003)

World of Relations: The Achievement of Peter Taylor (University Press of Kentucky, 1998)

Emerson and the Conduct of Life (Cambridge University Press, 1993)

The Unitarians and the Universalists (Greenwood Press, 1985)

William Ellery Channing: Selected Writings (Paulist Press, 1985)

Apostle of Culture: Emerson as Preacher and Lecturer. (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982)

He has also contributed essays to The Oxford Historical Guide to Ralph Waldo Emerson; The Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its Contexts and other works.

He has spoken at events connected with the Emerson Bicentennial in 2003, including the Massachusetts Historical Society's conference Spires of Form and Emerson and the Examined Life at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

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