Mzamane is the former Vice Chancellor and Rector of the University of Fort Hare, South Africa, where he is professor of English and comparative literature. A noted public speaker, he has spoken at many university campuses in the United States from Harvard and MIT to Stanford and UCLA, from Bennington and Northwestern to Spelman and Charleston. His interviews has been carried by the CNN and PBS's McNeil-Lehrer News Hour, the New York Times and the Boston Globe among others. Dr. Fleissner, author of 10 books, has made a lifelong study of the Coleridge work and has published widely. The publishing Edwin Mellen Press also published the author's Shakespeare and the Matter of the Crux.
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Dr. Fleissner earned his Ph.D. at New York University and has published over 400 articles, notes and reviews in journals and books.