Appointed By: George W. Bush
Date of Appointment: Thu, 2004-12-16
Term Expiration: Tue, 2010-01-26
Ricardo J. Quinones is professor emeritus and the Josephine Olps Weeks Professor of comparative literature at Claremont McKenna College and the director for the Gould Center for Humanistic Studies. He has authored six books, including The Renaissance Discovery of Time, Dante, The Changes of Cain, and most recently, Foundation Sacrifice in Dante's Commedia. He has held academic positions as professor or visiting professor at many colleges and universities, including Harvard University, the City University of New York, and UC Irvine. He has served as president of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, chair of the MLA's executive committee on comparative literature, and member of the California Council for the Humanities. Mr. Quinones received his B.A. from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. (Term expires January 26, 2010.)
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