Ben Dunlap Biography

Benjamin Bernard Dunlap 10th President of Wofford College was born in Columbia S.C. After graduating summa cum laude from Sewanee: The University of the South in 1959 he attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard University as a graduate student receiving his Ph.D. in English Language and Literature in 1967. From that year until 1993 he held academic appointments at Harvard and the University of South Carolina where he was awarded both the USC Teacher of the Year Award and the universitys Russell Award for Distinguished Scholarship. During that time he twice served as a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Bangkok Thailand and Chiang Mai Thailand and was also a member of the inaugural class of U.S.-Japan Leadership Fellows in Tokyo. In 1993 he accepted an appointment at Wofford College as the Chapman Family Professor in the Humanities a position he still holds. In 2000 he became the 10th president of Wofford College a small Liberal Arts institution in South Carolina. This year he announced he will step down as the Woffords President as he told the college's board of trustees he intends to take a year-long sabbatical after leaving the post and then return to the college as a professor. He also wants to continue other higher education commitments.
Dunlaps academic fields include literature intellectual history Asian studies film history and criticism fiction writing and the arts. On those subjects and others especially leadership and higher education he has lectured and spoken widely in this country and abroad including an appearance as one of Fifty Remarkable People at the 2007 TED Conference in Monterey. A frequent moderator for the Aspen Institutes Executive and C.E.O. Seminars as well as its Henry Crown Fellowship and such affiliated programs as the Executive Seminar Asia the Faculty Seminars at Wye the Aspen-Rodel Fellowship the Africa Leadership Initiative the Central European Leadership Initiative and the Liberty Fellowship of South Carolina he has also designed and moderated seminars in Europe Africa and the United States for corporate clients as varied as the Netflix Corporation Young & Rubicam the Waters Global Forum the Nova Chemical Corporation and the Arab Banking Corporation.

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