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Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor
of English at the University of Pennsylvania, Founding Director
of the Penn Humanities Forum, and past Chair of the Penn
English Department. Her fields are 20th-21st-century literature
and visual art, contemporary fiction, and ethical issues
in the arts. Among her recent books are Literature as
Meaning: A Thematic Anthology (2005); Venus in Exile:
The Rejection of Beauty in Twentieth-Century Art (2001);
and The Scandal of Pleasure: Art in an Age of Fundamentalism
(one of the New York Times "100 Best Books of 1996").
Steiner's cultural criticism has appeared in the New
York Times, Los Angeles Times, The Nation,
London Independent, London Review of Books,
and Times Literary Supplement. She is currently at
work on a full-length animated opera, "The Loathly
Lady," with composer Paul Richards and artist John
Kindness, as well as a travel memoir of Eastern Europe,
"Windows in the Pale."
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