Buell is an internationally known expert on
  literature and the environment.  His lecture, dealing with
  environmental justice and ethics in literature and society,
  is titled, "The Misery of Beasts and Humans."
          The public is invited.  Admission is free.
          Buell is John P. Marquand Professor of English and
  chair of the department at Harvard University.  After
  receiving his bachelor's degree from Princeton University
  and his master's and doctorate from Cornell University,
  Buell taught at Oberlin College for 24 years before moving
  to Harvard in 1990.  He served as dean for undergraduate
  education at Harvard from 1992 to 1996.
          His books include "Literary Transcendentalism:
  Style and Vision in the American Renaissance" (1973), "New
  England Literary Culture:  From Revolution Through
  Renaissance" (1986) and "The Environmental Imagination:
  Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American
  Culture" (1995).
          His newest book, "Writing in an Endangered World:
  Literature, Culture, and Environment in the United States
  and Beyond," will be published next year by Harvard
  University Press.  His lecture at Hope is based on his
  research for the book.
          The Clarence De Graaf Lectureship was established
  in 1988 by the family of Dr. Clarence De Graaf in memory of
  his service on the faculty of Hope College.  Dr. De Graaf
  taught in the department of English for 44 years, until his
  retirement in 1972, and served as department chair for 25 of
  those years.  The De Graaf Lecture is presented in alternate
  years by a prominent scholar or artist working in an area of
  interdisciplinary interest.
          The Maas Center is located on Columbia Avenue at
  11th Street.

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