Throughout the summer, Great Books Summer Program welcomes special guests, authors and educators to campus to join our discussion. This series is a major feature of the program and brings fascinating and sometimes well-known visitors to engage with our young people.

2008 Guest Speakers include:

Harold Augenbraum Harold Augenbraum is Executive Director of the National Book Foundation, presenter of the National Book Awards. He has published six books on Latino literature of the United States, including Growing Up Latino (1993), The Latino Reader (1997), U.S. Latino Literature: A Critical Guide for Students and Teachers (2000), the Encyclopedia Latina (2006), and Lengua Fresca (2006). He is one of six editors currently compiling the Norton Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, which is scheduled for publication in 2009. He translated Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca’s Chronicle of the Narváez Expedition (2002) and the Filipino novelist José Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (2006) for Penguin Classics, which will publish his translation of Rizal’s second novel, El Filibusterismo, in 2010. Viking will also publish his edition of The Collected Poems of Marcel Proust in 2010, with translations by Richard Howard. Augenbraum has been awarded ten grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, received a Raven Award from the Mystery Writers of America for distinguished service to the mystery field, founded the Proust Society of America, coordinated the national celebration of the centennial of the birth of John Steinbeck and the upcoming commemoration of the centennial of the death of Mark Twain, and taught U.S. Latino literature at Amherst College. He also writes the sometime blog "Reading Ahead: The Future of Literary Reading".

Click here to see a selection of our 2007 and 2008 guest speakers.

Click here to see a selection of our 2006 guest speakers.