David Thorburn: William Corbett Poetry Series
David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 57 years, 46 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media and Director Emeritus of the MIT Communications Forum. Generations of MIT undergraduates have taken his lecture course, \u201cThe Film Experience,\u201d which now reaches an international audience on YouTube. He was born in Manhattan and grew up in an old farmhouse in Randolph, New Jersey. He\u2019s written a book on Joseph Conrad and many essays and reviews on literature and media. Knots is his first book of poetry.