Van C. Gessel, dean of the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University, will speak Tuesday, May 3, at 11 a.m. in the de Jong Concert Hall, Harris Fine Arts Center, for campus devotional.
Live broadcasts are available on KBYU-TV (Channel 11), BYU-Television, KBYU-FM (89.1), BYU-Radio and byubroadcasting.org, as well as on campus in the Joseph Smith Building auditorium and the Varsity Theatre in the Wilkinson Student Center. Rebroadcast information is available at byubroadcasting.org.
Gessel has published six translations of works by the Japanese Christian novelist Endo Shusaku, including: The Samurai and Scandal; the most recent, Deep River, was published by New Directions in 1995.
He served as a literary advisor for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's recent production of a stage adaptation of Endo's "Silence" by American playwright Steven Dietz. He is also co-editing a two volume anthology of modern Japanese Literature for Columbia University Press.
Writer: James McCoy
