Franke Lectures in the Humanities

Chang-rae Lee was born in Seoul, Korea and emigrated to the United States when he was three. He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Oregon. He is currently Professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University as well as a Shinhan Distinguished Visiting Professor at Yonsei University. Chang-rae Lee’s novels are Native Speaker (1995); A Gesture Life (1999); Aloft (2004); The Surrendered (2010), which won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and, most recently, On Such a Full Sea (2014). His other awards and citations include the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, the American Book Award, the Barnes & Noble Discover Award, the ALA Notable Book of the Year Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Literary Award, the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award, and the NAIBA Book Award for Fiction. He has also written stories and articles for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, Conde Nast Traveler, Food & Wine, and many other publications.  In 2000 The New Yorker named him one of the 20 Writers for the 21^st Century.

Christopher Kendrick is Professor of English Literature at Loyola University Chicago.  He has published two books, Milton: A Study in Ideology and Form (Routledge, 1986) and Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England (University of Toronto Press, 2004), and several essays, including “The Imperial Laboratory: Discovering Forms in The New Atlantis” (2003) and “Monster Realism and Uneven Development in China Mieville’s The Scar” (2009).

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