Sander L. Gilman is distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University. For 2004-5 he is the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. His first biography Jurek Becker - A Life in Five Worlds appeared in 2003 and his widely reviewed monograph Fat Boys: A Slim Book appeared in 2004; his most recent edited volume Smoke: A Global History of Smoking (with Zhou Xun) also appeared that year. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997 and elected an honorary professor of the Freie Universität in Berlin.
