American Studies Center Aarhus

American Short Story Seminar

and Creative Writing Workshop

Wednesday, 23 September, 1998

Department of English, University of Aarhus

Room 319, Building 326

Program

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Preparatory Readings

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The Speakers

Thomas E. Kennedy

Thomas E. Kennedy holds degrees from Fordham University, Vermont College/Norwich University and the University of Copenhagen, and is the author of five works of fiction (most recently the story collection Drive, Dive, Dance & Fight (1997) and the novel The Book of Angels (1997)), four volumes of literary criticism (most notably Andre Dubus: A Study of the Short Fiction (1988) and Robert Coover: A Study of the Short Fiction (1992)), and a number of anthologies -- among these a creative writing anthology entitled Stories & Sources (1998). His prize-winning stories, essays, poems, interviews, reviews, craft articles, and translations from the Danish appear regularly in North American and European publications. He has taught fiction writing and been a visiting writer at many American and European universities, and serves as International Editor of Cimarron Review and Potpourri and Advisory Editor of The Literary Review. Since 1990 he has been a member of the faculty of the Ploughshares/Emerson College International Fiction Seminar held each summer in the Netherlands.

David Kranes

David Kranes holds degrees from Columbia University, New York University and Yale University, and is Professor of English at the Department of English, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Artistic Director of the Sundance Playwrights Lab, and Co-Founder and Faculty member of the Sawtooth Writers’ Conference. During September and October 1998 he is Visiting Professor at the Department of English, University of Aarhus. The author of over seventy short stories, as well as a number of novels (including The National Tree and The Heart in Progress (1991)) and short story collections (most recently Low Tide on the Desert (1996) and Nevada Dreams (1996)), he has also written and produced a number of stage and radio plays.

Rolf Heitmann

Rolf Heitmann holds a cand. mag. degree in Comparative Literature and American Studies from the University of Aarhus, and is External Lektor at the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Aarhus, where he teaches courses on the American short story. He has for many years served as editor of the literary magazine Standart: Anmeldelser af ny litteratur, with responsibilities for shorter prose fiction and the United States. His article ‘Til den Usynlige Verden: Puritanisme og symbolicitet i kortprosa af Mather, Poe og Hawthorne’ has recently been published in American Auto: Artikler om amerikanske litteratur (1998). He has carried out research into the work of William Carlos Williams and includes among his interests contemporary Danish literature and the genres of literary criticism.

James Bulman-May

James Bulman-May holds a cand. mag. degree in English and Spanish from the University of Copenhagen and a Ph.D. in Australian Literature from the University of Sydney. Since 1996 he has worked at the Department of English, University of Aarhus, where he has taught introductory surveys of postcolonial literatures and courses in Anglo-Indian literature, New Zealand literature, Australian literature, and Creative Writing. His publications include the forthcoming Patrick White and Alchemy.

The illustration at the top of this page shows a photograph of the distinguished American short story writer O. Henry (1862-1910), the pen name of W.S. Porter

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