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Professor Ron Gottesman Creative Advisor Ronald Gottesman, founding Director of the Center for the Humanities at USC, has taught American Literature and American Studies at the University of Southern California since 1975. He was born in Boston and educated at the University of Massachusetts, Colgate University, and Indiana University, where he earned his Ph.D. Gottesman subsequently taught composition, creative writing, literary criticism, American and world literature, and film history and aesthetics at Northwestern, Indiana and Rutgers Universities, and at the University of Wisconsin at Parkside. He served as visiting professor at the University of Zagreb and at the University of Nice. He has also lectured at many universities in the United States and Europe. Professor Gottesman is author of numerous articles and books and has edited and commissioned more than 200 critical and reference volumes in half a dozen book series. He has published books devoted to Upton Sinclair, Sergei M. Eisenstein, Orson Welles, William Dean Howells, and King Kong; other book subjects include textual editing, robots, and film scholarship. He edits a major section of the Norton Anthology of American Literature (now in its 6th edition), and was founding editor of two quarterly journals: Quarterly Review of Film and Video and Humanities in Society. Playing to the Camera: Film Actors Discuss Their Craft (Yale University Press), appeared in Spring 1998; More recently he served as Editor-in-Chief of Scribner’s Violence in America: An Encyclopedia (3 vols.). Professor Gottesman has been awarded Guggenheim and NEH Fellowships, was named Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Twentieth Century Studies and at the Yale University Humanities Center, and has served as consultant to many publishers, foundations, civic groups, entertainment companies, and government agencies, including National Public Radio, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Aspen Institute, the National Council on Aging, the Walt Disney Company and New Vision Entertainment.