Intellectual challenge is as necessary as breathing: an interview with Laurence Wright

Wright, Laurence; Pearce, B

Title: Intellectual challenge is as necessary as breathing: an interview with Laurence Wright
Creator: Wright, Laurence
Creator: Pearce, B
Date Issued: 2009
Date: 2009
Type: text
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:7059
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007422
Description: Professor Laurence Wright is Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa at Rhodes University. In 2009, he will have completed 25 years of research, teaching and scholarship at Rhodes University and this interview marks the occasion. A Rhodes Scholar and a Commonwealth Scholar, he studied at the universities of Rhodes, Warwick and Oxford. He is also Honorary Life President of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa. He has published widely in literary studies and is the Managing Editor of two academic journals as well as of the poetry magazine New Coin. He currently serves on the Council of the English Academy and is a co-opted member of the English National Language Body. He has taken a broad interest in the role of English in this country, ranging from language policy and teacher education matters, to archival research and the role of the humanities in public life. I thought that it would be worthwhile to interview him as his knowledge of literature is substantial, while his incisive and engaging thoughts on a range of topics are worth hearing. The interview was conducted intermittently by email between July and October, 2008.
Format: 16 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Wright, L.S. and Pearce, B. (2009) Intellectual challenge is as necessary as breathing: an interview with Laurence Wright. English Academy Review, 26 (1). pp. 72-86. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131750902768432

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