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听is an American poet and critic. He was born in Chicago in 1950 and was educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Edward Hirsch鈥檚 first collection of poems,听For the Sleepwalkers听(1981), received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection,听Wild Gratitude听(1986), won the National Book Critics Award. Since then, he has published six additional books of poems:听The Night Parade听(1989),听Earthly Measures听(1994),听On Love听(1998),听Lay Back the Darkness听(2003),听Special Orders听(2008), and听The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems听(2010), which brings together thirty-five years of poems. Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including听A Poet鈥檚 Glossary听(2014),听Poet鈥檚 Choice听(2006),听How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry听(1999), and is the editor of听Theodore Roethke鈥檚 Selected Poems听(2005) and co-editor of听The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology听(2008).

Edward Hirsch taught for six years in the English department at Wayne State University and seventeen years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He currently serves as the President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

听is a Professor of International Economic Law at the School of Law at the University of Warwick. She is a graduate of the University of Wales, where she received her LL.B., and the University of Leicester, where she obtained her LL.M. and Ph.D. Her research interests are in international economic law, particularly the law of the World Trade Organization (WTO). She has published widely on WTO law and is an expert on international agricultural trade, and has spoken widely about her research in the United States, Europe, and East Asia. As a consequence of her work, she was invited to become a member of the editorial board of the journal听Jurisprudence听and was also appointed as an expert on international economic law to the Research Foundation Flanders.

Smith was first introduced to James Boyd White鈥檚 work when she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Minnesota in 2008. She was inspired to use White鈥檚 work as a methodology for her own work on international agricultural trade regulation, arguing that pro-environmental reforms were never fully incorporated into trade agreements due to differences in use of language between environmentalists and trade lawyers, and that this difference must be abridged. She has also edited a symposium on Law and Language published by Oxford University Press, and is currently working on a book on food security in international economic law, which also incorporates White鈥檚 ideas about the power of language and the use of speech.

Smith is the Founding and now Co-Director of the WTO Scholar鈥檚 Forum, an initiative designed to bring together experts on the law of the World Trade Organization to discuss topical issues. She recently completed a two-year project entitled听Food Security, Foreign Direct Investment and Multilevel Governance in Weak States听with support from a grant from the Swiss National Fund. Before joining the University of Warwick, Smith previously taught at the University College of London, the University of Sheffield, and the University of Leicester.

Professor Smith will be discussing the work of James Boyd White at this event.

听is an American law professor, literary critic, scholar, and philosopher who is credited for founding the 鈥淟aw and Literature鈥� movement. White is a graduate of Amherst College, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Graduate School, where he obtained an M.A. in English. After graduation from law school, White spent a year as a Sheldon Fellow in Europe and practiced law in Boston for two years. He began his teaching career at the University of Colorado Law School and also was a professor at both the Law School and College of the University of Chicago.

He has published numerous books:听The Legal Imagination听(1973),听Constitutional Criminal Procedure听(1976),听When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community听(1984),听Heracles' Bow: Essays in the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law听(1985),听Justice as Translation: An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism(1990),听"This Book of Starres": Learning to Read George Herbert听(1994),听Acts of Hope: The Creation of Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics听(1994),听From Expectation to Experience: Essays on Law and Legal Education听(2000),听The Edge of Meaning听(2001); and in 2006, both听Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force听and an edited volume,听How Should We Talk About Religion?

White has served as a governor of the Chicago Council of Lawyers and is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 1997-98. He is currently a professor of English emeritus and the L. Hart Wright Collegiate Professor.

听is an American author of works of creative nonfiction. He is a graduate of Cowell College of the University of California at Santa Cruz. He was a staff writer at听The New Yorker听for over twenty years and was a two-time recipient of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting and Magazine Reporting) and a Lannan Literary Award. 听He has taught previously at Princeton University, Columbia University, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Bard College, Vassar College, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University.

Weschler鈥檚 books of political reportage include听The Passion of Poland听(1984),听A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers听(1990), and听Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas听(1998). His 鈥淧assions and Wonders鈥� series currently comprises Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin听(1982),听David Hockney鈥檚 Cameraworks听(1984);听Mr. Wilson鈥檚 Cabinet of Wonder听(1995), which was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award,听A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces听(1998),听Boggs: A Comedy of Values听(1999),听Robert Irwin: Getty Garden听(2002),听Vermeer in Bosnia听(2004),听Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences听(2006), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2007, and听Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative听(2011).

Weschler is currently the director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University, where he has been a fellow since 1991, and is the artistic director emeritus with the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is a contributing editor to听惭肠厂飞别别苍别测鈥�s, the听Threepenny Review, and听The Virginina Quarterly Review听and recently retired from his position as Chair of the Sundance Documentary Film Festival. He is currently a distinguished writer-in-residence at the Carter Journalism Institute at New York University.

听is the Director of the American Studies Program and Director of the Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College. He received his B.A. at Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D. at Yale University. He regularly writes for听The New York Times Magazine听and the听Washington Post Magazine, is a regular columnist for the听Boston Globe, and is a commentator for WGBH FM. Rotella is also an editor of the "Chicago Visions and Revisions" series at the University of Chicago Press.

Rotella鈥檚 published works include听October Cities听(1998),听Good With Their Hands; Boxers, Bluesmen, and Other Characters from the Rust Belt听(2002), and听Cut Time: An Education at the Fights听(2003),听which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and听Playing in Time: Essays, Profiles, and Other True Stories听(2012). His articles and chapters have also appeared in听The New Yorker,听Critical Inquiry,听American Quarterly,听The American Scholar,听Raritan, the听New York Times, the听Chicago Tribune, the听Boston Globe,听Transition,听Harper's,听DoubleTake,听Boston,听Slate,听The Believer,听TriQuarterly, and听The Best American Essays.

Rotella has held Guggenheim, Howard, and Du Bois fellowships and received the Whiting Writers Award, the L. L. Winship/PEN New England Award, and The American Scholar's prizes for Best Essay and Best Work by a Younger Writer. He has also received U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grants from the State Department to lecture in China and Bosnia and Herzegovina. At Boston College, Rotella specializes in American Studies, urban literature and culture, American literature, and creative nonfiction writing.

听is an American poet and critic. He was born in Chicago in 1950 and was educated at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in Folklore. He has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Edward Hirsch鈥檚 first collection of poems,听For the Sleepwalkers听(1981), received the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University and the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. His second collection,听Wild Gratitude听(1986), won the National Book Critics Award. Since then, he has published six additional books of poems:听The Night Parade听(1989),听Earthly Measures听(1994),听On Love听(1998),听Lay Back the Darkness听(2003),听Special Orders听(2008), and听The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems听(2010), which brings together thirty-five years of poems. Hirsch is also the author of five prose books, including听A Poet鈥檚 Glossary听(2014),听Poet鈥檚 Choice听(2006),听How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry听(1999), and is the editor of听Theodore Roethke鈥檚 Selected Poems听(2005) and co-editor of听The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology听(2008).

Edward Hirsch is the recipient of an Academy of Arts and Letters Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader鈥檚 Digest Writers鈥� Award, and the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and was awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hirsch taught for six years in the English department at Wayne State University and seventeen years in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston. He is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

听is an Irish poet, author of ten volumes of poetry. Born in Dublin, Ireland, she spent her childhood in London and New York, returning to Ireland to attend secondary school in Killiney and university at Trinity College Dublin. Her poetry has been influenced by her experiences as a young wife and mother and her growing awareness of the troubled role of women in Irish history and culture. Over the course of her long career, Boland emerged as one of the foremost female voices in Irish literature. Boland has taught at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, and was a member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Boland鈥檚 books of poetry include听Domestic Violence听(2007),听Against Love Poetry听(2001),听The Lost Land听(1998),听An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967鈥�1987听(1996),听In a Time of Violence听(1994),听Outside History: Selected Poems 1980鈥�1990听(1990),听The Journey and Other Poems听(1986),听Night Feed听(1982), and听In Her Own Image听(1980). In addition to her books of poetry, Boland is also the author of听Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman听and the Poet in Our 罢颈尘别听(1995), a volume of prose, and is the co-editor of听The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms听(2000). Her most recent prose book is听A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet听(2011). A new volume of poetry,听A Woman Without a Country, is due to be published by W. W. Norton in November 2014.

Boland has received the Lannan Award for Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She was poet-in-residence at the National Maternity Hospital during its 1994 Centenary and has also been the Hurst Professor at Washington University and Regent鈥檚 Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is a tenured Professor of English at Stanford University where she is the Director of the Creative Writing Program.

听is an American poet, essayist and editor. He is a graduate of Harvard University, where he obtained an A.B. in English and American Literature, and Brown University, where he obtained his MFA. Young鈥檚 poetry and essays have appeared in听The New Yorker,听The Paris Review,听The Kenyon Review,听Callaloo, and many other journals and anthologies. He is also a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, a NEA Literature Fellow in Poetry, a United States Artists James Baldwin Fellow, and was a Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University.

Young is the author of eight books of poetry and editor of seven other collections, including听Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels听(2011), winner of an American Book Award, and听Jelly Roll听(2003), a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Paterson Poetry Prize. He most recently edited听The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton 1965-2010听and听The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink. His non-fiction book,听The Grey Album: Music, Shadows, Lies听(2012) won the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize. Young鈥檚 other poetry collections include听Books of Hours听(2014),听Dear Darkness听(2008), and听For The Confederate Dead听(2007).

In addition to the Paterson Poetry Prize, Young has been the recipient of the PEN Open Award and the 2012 American Book Award. Young is currently the Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English and curator of Literary Collections and the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at Emory University in Atlanta.