“I feel fortunate to be able to make a living as an artist and so participate in this ongoing discourse.”Įverett, whose research centers on American studies and critical theory, has authored 34 books as well as more than 70 shorter works including poems, essays and short stories. “I believe that the arts make us better, smarter,” Everett said.

(Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Writer in Residence Emeritus TC Boyle was elected in 2009.)

He is the fourth USC faculty member elected to the academy and the second at USC Dornsife. Percival Everett, Distinguished Professor of English at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters.įounded in 1898, the academy stands as an honor society of the country’s leading writers, artists, composers and architects.Įverett is one of just 19 individuals - only six of whom are in the literature category - elected as members this year. USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies Huntington-USC Institute on California and The West

Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American LifeĬenter for Islamic Thought, Culture and PracticeĬenter for Latin American and Latinx Studies

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