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Two Five College 40th Anniversary Professors to Give 2006 Jackie M. Pritzen Lectures View poster (252K PDF file) Two faculty members who were among six named this year as Five College 40th Anniversary Professors will give the annual Jackie M. Pritzen Lecture this year in two parts. On Wednesday, March 29 at 4:30 p.m. in Cole Assembly Room, Amherst College, the first Pritzen Lecture will be given by Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latina American and Latino Culture at Amherst College. The title of his talk will be "Who Owns the English Language?" The lecture is free and open to the public. A second Pritzen Lecture will be given on May 3 by Austin Sarat, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College. The lectures are named for a longtime member of the Five College staff, Jackie M. Pritzen, who worked with many different faculty groups during her 25 years with the consortium. The lectures were initiated in 1996, the year after her retirement, in tribute to the central role that faculty play in furthering cooperation among the five institutions. Last fall, to mark the 40th anniversary of the consortium, the Five College Directors and Deans named six faculty members as Five College 40th Anniversary Professors for a three year term, beginning 2006. During that time, each will teach one course each year at one of the other four campuses and offer a public event on a topic of his choice. "This year's Pritzen lectures furnish an opportunity to reflect on how much the schools have done together in the past 40 years," said Lorna M. Peterson, executive director of Five Colleges, Incorporated. "Having two members of the inaugural class of Five College 40th Anniversary Professors share this year's lecture," she noted, "reminds us again of the key role of the faculties in promoting the spirit of cooperation among the schools." Ilan Stavans joined the Amherst faculty in 1993. He has published the first dictionary of Spanglish (Spanglish: The Making of a New American Language 2003) and is the editor of the forthcoming Norton Anthology of Latino Literature. He is also the author of Growing Up Latino (1993), The Hispanic Condition (1995), The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories (1998), On Borrowed Words (2001), The Poetry of Pablo Neruda (2003), and most recently Dictionary Days (2005). During this spring semester, he is teaching a course called The Sounds of Spanglish for the Latin American Studies Program in the Department of Spanish and Italian at Mount Holyoke College. Posted 3/10/06
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