"The recording is intriguing to Clayborne Carson, a
professor of
history and founding director of the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Research
and Education Institute at Stanford University."
"Ever since his first play ‘FOB" (‘fresh
off the
boat"), was staged in his dorm at Stanford in 1980, the
playwright
has been the bard of multiculturalism…"
Eavan Boland, director of Stanford's Creative Writing
Program and one
of Ireland's leading poets, has won a 2012 PEN award for
creative
nonfiction with her acclaimed collection of essays.
Nancy Packer, a retired Stanford University English professor who
headed up the creative-writing program for four years, starts with
the
germ of an idea, then creates characters that are far more than a
conglomeration of people she knows.
Actor Max Sosna-Spear takes KQED through Stanford
University's summer celebration of the works of a renowned
American playwright, actor and screenwriter with Stanford Summer
Theater"s
Sam Shepard Festival.
Seminars based on philosopher Montaigne's Renaissance
writings
are among the top choices of freshmen for satisfying Stanford's
new
Thinking Matters undergraduate requirement.