Seth Lerer ’76, holder of an endowed chair in the humanities and a professor of English and comparative literature at Stanford University since 1990, has been named dean of arts and humanities at the University of California, San Diego. He is a widely regarded researcher in the area of medieval and Renaissance studies, comparative studies, and the history of scholarship and children’s literature. An English major at Wesleyan, Lerer has published 10 books, including his most recent, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter.
