Saturday, October 2, 2010
9:30 AM Coffee, 10:00 Speaker
Place: Sun City Activity Center Atrium
Program: Walt Herbert
T. Walter Herbert received a BA in English from Harvard College in 1960 (Magna, Phi Beta Kappa), and in 1963 received an M.Div from Union Theological Seminary in New York City, specializing in Hebrew Bible. From 1963-66 he served as Director of an Experimental Ministry to Graduate Students & Faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, a project funded by the Glide Foundation of San Francisco. In 1969 he received a PhD in English from Princeton University, and took a position at the University of Kentucky, from which he departed in 1975 to accept the Herman Brown Chair in English at Southwestern University. In 1981 he was appointed University Scholar at Southwestern; and in 2006 he retired from the active faculty at Southwestern, and was named Professor of English Emeritus.
In 1979, Herbert helped create the Brown Symposium, which brings distinguished scholars to Southwestern University.
Herbert’s work also has earned him several awards including the NEH Younger Humanist Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Study Center in Bellagio, Italy, and the William C. Finch Distinguished Professorship at Southwestern. In 1990, Herbert was appointed the Beckman Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of California in Berkeley.
Herbert’s most recent book is Faith Based War: From 9/11 to Catastrophic Success in Iraq, Equinox Press (2009).