Marc Shell, a person
who stutters, is Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative
Literature at Harvard University. His recent book STUTTER
is a broadly humanistic and interdisciplinary study of
speech dysfluency, neurology, and comparative arts (Harvard
University Press, 2006). POLIO AND ITS AFTERMATH focuses on
related issues of intermittent bodily paralysis (HUP,
2005)and AMERICAN BABEL considers problems of
multilingualism and interlinguistic negotiation (HUP,
2003). MONEY, LANGUAGE, AND THOUGHT involves relevant
matters of economic and linguistic representation and
exchange (Johns Hopkins University Press 1978). Professor
Shell offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses on
stuttering in The Faculty of Arts and Sciences and in The
Graduate School of Education. Born and educated in Québec,
he is co-founder of the Longfellow Institute for the Study
of the Non-English Languages and Literatures of the United
States. For more information, please see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Shell
and http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~mshell/.
