James Warren, the S. Blount Mason, Jr. Professor of English, was the first Washington and Lee faculty member to present a lecture in a new series created by W&L student Eduardo Rodriguez.
Warren specializes in 19th century literature and culture as well as literature of the environment. He is a member of the Environmental Studies faculty.
A graduate of Auburn University, he received the Ph.D. from Yale. He is the author of John Burroughs and the Place of Nature. (University of Georgia Press, 2006) and The Culture of Eloquence (Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999).
The "Last Lecture Series," which Rodriguez organized, is patterned after similar program at other institutions where faculty members are invited to present on the topic of their choosing “as if it were their last to address an audience.” Such series received internationall attention two years ago when the late Randy Pausch gave his last lecture at Carnegie-Mellon University after having been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer.
