Advisory: Arthur Miller’s 85th birthday

The following University of Michigan faculty are available to aid you in your writing or programming in celebration of Arthur Miller‘s 85th birthday Oct. 17.

Miller’s connection with U-M extends from his days as a student during which he won two prestigious Hopwood Awards for playwriting. Currently the University of Michigan Club of New York City offers an annual tuition credit through the Arthur Miller Scholarship Award to a U-M sophomore or junior recommended by a faculty committee.

Miller visits U-M periodically and will be on the campus Oct. 26-28 for the Arthur Miller International Symposium, a series of conversations and panel discussions featuring critics, scholars, and directors from around the world. U-M has also received funding for the Nicholas Delbanco—U-M’s Robert Frost Collegiate Professor of English Language and Literature and chair of the Hopwood Committee. Delbanco’s primary interests are in the writing of fiction and the contemporary novel. His latest published work is “The Lost Suitcase” with two other books due for publication in November.

Laurence Goldstein—Professor of English and editor of the Michigan Quarterly Review. He has written extensively on Miller’s “The Misfits,” and edited with Delbanco “Writers and Their Craft.”

Enoch Brater—Professor of English and professor of theatre. His primary interests are dramatic literature, theater, and performance. This term he is teaching a senior seminar on “The Stages of Arthur Miller” and is the organizer of the Miller Symposium.