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Seth Lerer

Author of Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language

Includes the names: Seth Lerer, Seth Lerer Ph.D., Prof. Seth Lerer, Professor Seth Lerer, Professor Seth Lerer, Ph.D. Professor Seth Lerer, The Teaching Company (Seth Lerer), Professor Seth Lerer Stanford University

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Seth Lerer is Distinguished Professor of Literature and the former Dean of Arts and Humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is known nationally for his audio and videotape series, The History of the English Language, for the Teaching Company. — biography from Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language… (more)
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Works by Seth Lerer
Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language 272 copies, 4 reviews
Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter 236 copies, 4 reviews
History of the English Language 110 copies, 2 reviews
Wind in the Willows (Lerer annotation) (Editor) 66 copies
The Life and Writings of John Milton 24 copies, 1 review
Life and Writings of Geoffrey Chaucer 23 copies, 2 reviews
The Yale Companion to Chaucer 23 copies
Chaucer and His Readers 21 copies
Error and the Academic Self 20 copies
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater 20 copies
The History of the English Language - Part I 10 copies
Comedy Through the Ages 9 copies
Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in the Consolation of Philosophy 6 copies
Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays 6 copies
Tradition: A Feeling for the Literary Past: The Literary Agenda 6 copies
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1955-11-10
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Brooklyn, New York, USA
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Wesleyan University (BA | 1976)
Oxford University (BA | 1978)
University of Chicago (PhD | 1981)
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Princeton University
Stanford University (professor)
University of California, San Diego (Dean of Arts and Humanities)
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National Book Critics Circle Award (in Criticism | 2008)
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