the Organization of Graduate Students in Comparative Literature (OGSCL) is proud to announce the final event of

Lucien Miller (B.A., California at Berkeley, 1961; M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1970). Lucien Miller's specialties in Comparative Literature and East-West literary relations include: cross-cultural studies, colonial and post colonial literature, ethnic minority cultures and folk literature, ethics and literature, translation studies, and comparative religion. He has traveled widely in Asia and the Pacific, and has conducted field work and research in China and India. He teaches courses on travel writing, Buddhism in America, and theory and practice of Chinese translation.  Most recently, he has developed an experimental course team-taught with Professor Pat Lasch called “Interior Landscapes.” Current research projects include “Silk Road Tales: Anthology of Bai Folk Literature," a volume of translations of Bai minority oral tales collected in Yunnan, China. Forthcoming essays accepted for publication include “Thomas Merton’s Chang Tzu,” and “Contemplative Tales East-West and the Holy: Martin Buber, Abraham Heschel, and Thomas Merton;” and “Boundary Crossing: Travel, Ethnography and the Perambulations of Self.” He has also published studies of traditional Chinese fiction, translation, biography, and an anthology of ethnic folk literature, South of the Clouds: Yunnan Tales.

William Moebius (B.A., Lawrence (Wis.), 1963; Ph.D., New York at Buffalo, 1969), Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Massaschusetts, Amherst. Professor Moebius has taught in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for thirty-two years, serving as Department Chair for the past nine. His publications include translations of all the extant poetry of Philodemos for the Oxford/Penguin edition of the Greek Anthology and of Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus" for a Bobbs-Merrill Anthology of Greek Tragedy. For the past fourteen years he has published articles (in English and in French) on word and image or word and musical relations in Word & Image, Notebooks in Cultural Analysis, Children's Literature and elsewhere, lectured in Paris, Stockholm, Belgium and Germany, and has served as President of the Association of Departments and Programs in Comparative Literature.  He is currently on the advisory committee for the American Comparative Literature Association.  Recent publications include "Lines in the Sand: Comparative Literature and the National Literature Departments" in Comparative Literature. He is also participating in a collaborative research project on "words, images and the feminine" with faculty at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium.  At U Mass, he teaches courses such as Myth, Folktale, and Children's Literature as well as Word, Image, Book.

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Copies of  readings have been placed on reserve on the third floor of the DuBois Library under COMPLIT 595A: Seminar–Cultural Studies under instructor OGSCL.

Miller, Lucien. "Merton’s Chuang Tzu." unpublished manuscript.
Miller, Lucien.  "Boundary Crossings: Travel, Ethnography and the Perambulations of Self." unpublished manuscript.

This event is sponsored by Department of Comparative Literature -UMass, Department of French and Italian Studies-UMass, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures-UMass, Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies-UMass, Department of Communication-UMass, Department of English and Comparative Literature-Smith, Department of English-UMass, Film Studies Program-Mt. Holyoke, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies-UMass, Department of Legal Studies-UMass, Program in Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC)-UMass, and the Asian American Lecture Series.

For further information, please contact Anita Mannur, Beverly Weber, Craig Sinclair, and Dale Hudson at or visit our web site at www.umass.edu/complit/ogscl/culturalstudies/