John Haskell
Picador Guest Professor for Literature
http://americanstudies.uni-leipzig.de/faculty/haskell
John Haskell is the author of I Am Not Jackson Pollock (2003) and American Purgatorio (2005). Before, he has worked as an actor and performance artist - for example, with David Mamet at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago. John Haskell has studied playwriting at UCLA, and is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Columbia University.
Haskell's work has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review and Conjunctions, and his first short-story collection I Am Not Jackson Pollock/ has received wide literary praise. With his mesmerizing debut novel American Purgatorio Haskell surprised literary critics and readers alike by crossing conventional genre definitions and creating a work of fiction that comes across as literary road movie, detective novel, psycho thriller, and metaphysical quest at the same time.
John Haskell will stay in Leipzig from October 2007 to February 2008 as writer in residence and Picador-Guest Professor at the Institute for American Studies in Leipzig.
John Haskell Related News, Events and Activities
Below you will find news on past, present and upcoming events related to John Haskell and the Picador Professorship for Literature at the American Studies Leipzig Institute at Leipzig University.
- 18 Jan, 19:00 Reading and Discussion by John Haskell on Jan 18
- 17 May, 17:23 Picador Professor John Haskell in Kreuzer logbuch
- 24 Jan, 19:00 Picador Professor John Haskell reads in Grassi Museum
- 24 Jan, 00:00 Picador Professor John Haskell Reads on 24 January
- 08 Jan, 10:32 Kreuzer Leipzig features Picador Professor John Haskell
- 13 Dec, 09:00 Uni Journal introduces Picador Professor John Haskell
- 22 Nov, 16:00 Picador Reading by John Haskell
- 15 Nov, 16:00 Picador Professor John Haskell Reads on Nov 22
- 07 Aug, 12:00 New Picador Professor John Haskell