Multilingualism in the United States

Marc Shell and Werner Sollors, Harvard University

Alfred Brophy, Boston College; Alide Cagidemetrio, University of Udine, Italy; Jules Chametzky, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Melinda Gray, Harvard University; Anne Halley; Rachel Rubin, University of Massachusetts, Boston; Steven Rowan, University of Missouri, St. Louis

We opened our 2000-2001 seminar season with "Fortunate Pilgrims: Literary Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s," written by Matthew Frye Jacobson and commented upon by Donna Gabbaccia. The event, co-sponsored by the American Literature and Culture Series at Harvard University's Humanities Center, was well attended. We were delighted to see so many of you here, and hope to see an equally large and lively crowd at our next meeting, which will take place here at the MHS on Thursday, October 26, at 5:15 P.M.

Marc Shell and Werner Sollors, co-editors of the forthcoming Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Translations, will join us for a discussion on "Multilingualism in the United States." We are fortunate that many of the volume's contributors, listed above, will also be able to attend, lending their own perspectives and expertise to the discussion.

The Society will serve a light buffet supper following the session. Those wishing to stay and eat must contact Erin Pipkin by telephone at 617.646.0505 or by e-mail at epipkin@masshist.org before Wednesday, October 27 to make a reservation.

Advance copies of seminar papers for the year are available for $25.00 (total). If you would like to subscribe, please make your check payable to the Massachusetts Historical Society and send it to the attention of Erin Pipkin at the MHS. Participants may also find copies at several area institutions; contact Erin at the Society for details.

The Massachusetts Historical Society is located in the Back Bay at the corner of Boylston Street and the Fenway. The nearest subway stop is Hynes Convention Center/I.C.A. on the Green Line, two blocks from the Society near the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Boylston Street. The #1 Dudley bus from Harvard Square also stops at Hynes Convention Center/I.C.A. Public parking is available at the Prudential Center on Boylston Street, a few blocks from the Society, and in garages located off Boylston Street, on Haviland Street, and on Westland Avenue.