Professor Richard Dunn

May 2007

Joseph Conrad: Supra-National Novelist

Richard Dunn is a Professor and former Chair of the University of
Washington English Department, where he has taught fiction and Victorian
Literature courses since 1967. He is author or editor of 11 books and
numerous articles and reviews, principally on the nineteenth-century
English Novel. Professor Dunn will lecture on how, as English has become
a world language in recent decades, many award winning non-native
speakers of English have produced award winning fiction. A century
earlier Conrad became a British subject, wrote in English, but
deliberately crafted his subject matter in expansively “supra-national”
ways, even as he was becoming a major “English novelist.”