Theodor Geisel

Donald E. Pease is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and African-American Literature at Dartmouth, the Avalon Foundation Chair of the Humanities, the Founding Director of the Futures of American Studies Institute at Dartmouth, and the Chair of the Dartmouth Liberal Studies Program. Awarded the Ted and Helen Geisel Chair in the Humanities at Dartmouth College in 1990, Pease has since become an authority on Geisel's work, selected to give a keynote address at the ceremony celebrating the opening of the Geisel Library at the University of California at San Diego.