EVENT AT THE MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY MANCHESTER CENTER, VERMONT Thursday, May 18, 2023, 5:30 p.m.
TITLE: “FOR THE LOVE OF LANGUAGE: MICHAEL SHAPIRO’S PUBLICATION HISTORY” SHORT DESCRIPTION: The local author, Michael Shapiro, who has lived in Manchester for the past thirty-two years, will present a chronological aperçu of the past fifty-seven years (1965-2022) in his life as a working scholar and university teacher with a lasting record of achievement touching on many details and covering several humanistic disciplines. This presentation will provide short descriptions of the publication of his books from 1968 to 2022. The outlines of a professorial career provide a rare insight into the sociology of knowledge and are fleshed out by a real-life love story that is haunted by peripeteia, illness, and the death of one’s beloved. It will be live-streamed by GNAT TV. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/@GNATaccess/streams SHORT BIO OF THE PRESENTER: Michael Shapiro was born in Yokohama in 1939 and grew up speaking Russian, Japanese, and English. He spent the war years in Japan before immigrating to Los Angeles with his parents in 1952. Through his father, Constantine Shapiro (1896-1992), he is a direct descendant of the founder of the yeshiva system of Jewish education, Hayyim of Volozhin (the “Volozhiner rebbe” [1749-1821]), and the last in a line of scholars that includes three eminent Russian-Jewish philologists: the verse theorist and comparatist Viktor Zhirmunsky (1891-1971), the belletrist and literary critic Yury Tynianov (1894-1943), and the Romance philologist Yakov Malkiel (1914-1998). In 1965-66 he was a postdoctoral fellow in linguistics at Tokyo University and spent the next forty-five years in the United States as a university professor of Slavic and semiotic studies. He is the co-author, with his late wife Marianne Shapiro, of *Figuration in Verbal Art*(1988) and *The Sense of Form in Literature and Language* (2nd ed., 2009). His 2007 book, *Palimpsest of Consciousness*, is a commentary on his only work of fiction, *My Wife the Metaphysician, or Lady Murasaki’s Revenge*. Michael Shapiro is Professor Emeritus of Slavic and Semiotic Studies at Brown University and a member of the Society of Senior Scholars at Columbia University. His website is at www.marianneandmichaelshapiro.com. He writes a blog on American English at www.languagelore.net. The expanded second edition of his book, *The Speaking Self: Language Lore and English Usage*, was published by Springer in 2017. His newest book, *The Logic of Language: A Semiotic Study of Speech*, was published in 2022.
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