Document Type : Interview

Authors

• Wendy Steiner ¹
• Javad Khorsandi ²

¹ Richard L. Fisher Professor of English, Department of English, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania,Philadelphia, USA

² PhD Candidate in English Language and Literature, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English Emerita at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Steiner earned her B.A. from McGill University in 1970 and both her M.Phil. and Ph.D. in English from Yale University in 1972 and 1974 respectively. After teaching at Yale (1974-1976) and the University of Michigan (1976-1979), she joined the Penn faculty in 1979. Promoted to associate professor three years later, she was named full professor in 1985. At Penn, she served as Chair of the English Department from 1995-1999, Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum from 1998-2010, Master of Modern Languages College House from 1985-1988, and director of the Penn/King’s College Program in London from 1989-1990. Professor Steiner’s fields are interartistic relations and literature in English of the 20th and 21st centuries. Among her books on modern literature and visual art are The Real Real Thing:  The Model in the Mirror of Art (2010); Venus in Exile:  The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001). Professor Steiner has received awards from the Guggenheim, ACLS, and Mellon Foundations among others, and her cultural reviews have appeared widely in U.S. and British periodicals, including The New York Times, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times, and The Guardian. Javad Khorsandi, Ph.D. student of English Language and Literature at Shiraz University has arranged this interview with Professor Steiner.

Keywords

• Wendy Steiner
• University of Pennsylvania
• comparative literature
• applied literature, Javad Khorsandi

Article Title [Persian]

مصاحبه با پروفسور وندی استاینر

Authors [Persian]

• پروفسور وندی اسنایدر ¹
• جواد خرسندی ²

¹ استاد گروه زبان انگلیسی، دانشکده علوم و هنر، دانشگاه پنسیلوانیا، فیلادلفیا، ایالات متحده آمریکا

² دانشجوی دکتری زبان و ادبیات انگلیسی، دانشگاه شیراز، شیراز، ایران

Keywords [Persian]

• وندی استاینر
• دانشگاه پنسیلوانیا
• ادبیات تطبیقی
• ادبیات کاربردی جواد خرسندی