Herbert S. Lindenberger, the Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities in Comparative Literature and English at Stanford University, will present the second annual William H. Matheson Seminar in Comparative Arts at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, in Room 300 North Brookings Hall.
Lindenberger, who was the 1997 president of the Modern Language Association, will speak on "Crossing the Arts: Interchange, Encroachment, Union." The lecture is sponsored by the Committee on Comparative Literature in Arts and Sciences.
Lindenberger is the author of "Opera in History: From Monteverdi to Cage" (1998), "The History of Literature: On Value, Genre, Institutions" (1990) and "Opera: The Extravagant Art" (1986), among other volumes. A former professor of German and English at Washington University, Lindenberger has received numerous honors and awards, including a Fulbright Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.
The lecture is presented in memory of William H. Matheson, professor of comparative literature, who taught at the University from 1970 to 1996. A distinguished poet and translator, Matheson taught courses on almost 100 different topics, including narrative and drama, lyric poetry and cross-cultural themes.
