Faculty

We have invited a dozen experts in their field to assist us. The core faculty will consist of the art historian Alan Braddock, an assistant professor at Temple University; the writer Scott Russell Sanders, editor ofThe Audubon Reader, and Joel Silver, Curator of Books at the Lilly Library. I am the director of the program. A native of Germany who has taught at Harvard University and the University of Maryland Baltimore, I have been a Professor of English at Indiana University since 2006 and have been working on Audubon for more than a decade. I have edited a collection of his Writings and Drawings for the Library of America, and most recently I appeared in the PBS film "Drawn from Life: John James Audubon," directed by Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, and the Louisiana Public Television documentary, “A Summer of Birds” (the filmmakers will lecture at the Institute). Alita Hornick, our department manager, is assisting me in the organization of the Institute.

In addition to the four of us, participants will hear from an interesting mix of literary scholars, art historians, museum curators, and archivists in the course of the institute.

Barrow, Mark, Professor, Department of History, Virginia Tech
Braddock, Alan, Assistant Professor of Art, Temple University
Garey, Diane, producer, Florentine Films
Gehret, Alan, Curator, The Audubon Memorial Museum, Henderson, KY
Govier, Katherine, writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Hengeveld, James, Lecturer, Department of Biology, Indiana University, and editor, North American Birds
Hengeveld, Susan, Lecturer, Department of Biology, Indiana University
Heitman, Danny, columnist, The Baton Rouge Advocate
Hott, Lawrence, director, Florentine Films
McDermott-Sipe, Sheila, English Teacher, Bloomington High School South
Melton, Christina, Senior Producer, Louisiana Public Television
Rupert, Rebecca, Teacher of English/Language Art, Bloomington New Tech High School
Sanders, Scott Russell, Distinguished Professor of English, Indiana University Bloomington 
Silver, Joel, Curator of Books, The Lilly Library, Indiana University Bloomington
Smith, Dave, Eliott Coleman Professor of Poetry and Department Chair, The Writing Seminars, Johns Hopkins University 
Smith, Jonathan, Professor of English, University of Michigan-Dearborn
Sterrenburg, Lee, Friends of Goose Pond and Sassafras Audubon Society