Students living at and visiting Hopkins Marine Station in Monterey examine the cross-disciplinary friendship and collaboration between author John Steinbeck and scientist Ed Ricketts.
In a new class, called Medieval Fantasy Literature, students examined the origins of dragons, witches and other fantastical creatures by reading a series of ancient works.
A member of the prestigious Académie Française, Michel Serres taught at Stanford’s Department of French and Italian for nearly 30 years. He died June 1 at 88.
John L’Heureux directed the highly regarded Stanford Creative Writing Program and the Wallace Stegner Creative Writing Fellowship program, where his proteges included, among many others, National Medal of Arts recipients.
Over the past six years, several Stanford researchers and English students have been helping develop a digital archive of early 20th-century publishers.
Herbert S. Lindenberger, a professor emeritus who founded Stanford’s Department of Comparative Literature and inspired generations of students and scholars, died on Oct. 1.
