Dr. David Lee Garrison, WSU Emeritus Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and former Chair of Modern Languages, will be a keynote speaker at the biannual conference of the Society for Renaissance and Baroque Hispanic Poetry at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, IL, on Friday, Sept. 29, 2023.
His presentation is titled, “From Professor to Translator to Poet: A Golden Age Journey.” He will discuss the connections between these three roles—professor, translator, poet—and read from his work.
Dr. Garrison has published an annotated edition and critical study of the poet, Luis de Góngora, many articles on Spanish literature, translations of Spanish poets from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries, and five books of his own poems.
Professor Garrison taught at Wright State from 1979-2009. He won the Alumni Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Presidential Award for Outstanding Faculty Member, and he composed the lyrics to the Wright State Alma Mater.
In retirement, Dr. Garrison has concentrated on his poetry, winning the Paul Laurence Dunbar Poetry Prize in 2009 and being named Ohio Poet of the Year in 2014. His poems have been read by Garrison Keillor on the national radio show, “The Writer’s Almanac,” and on the BBC in London, and featured by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser in his column, “American Life in Poetry.”
David Lee Garrison lives in Oakwood with his wife, Suzanne Kelly-Garrison, emeritus senior law lecturer in the WSU College of Business and a novelist.
