Professor David Peimer
Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman: Moments of Vision
Summary
In this talk, David Peimer will look at some of the masterpieces of two giants of American poetry, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman. He asks, how are they both of their time and timeless? These poets opened up new ways of perceiving the world beyond nostalgia and sentimentality. How did they do it? What were their visionary secrets?
Professor David Peimer
David Peimer is a professor of theatre and performance studies in the UK. He has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and New York University (Global Division), and was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University. Born in South Africa, David has won numerous awards for playwriting and directing. He has written eleven plays and directed forty in places like South Africa, New York, Brussels, London, Berlin, Zulu Kingdom, Athens, and more. His writing has been published widely and he is the editor of Armed Response: Plays from South Africa (2009) and the interactive digital book Theatre in the Camps (2012). He is on the board of the Pinter Centre in London.