| A native of Columbia,
S.C., Benjamin "Bernie" Dunlap studied at Sewanee, Oxford,
and Harvard before returning to South
Carolina. His curriculum vitae is as expansive as it
is diverse. Dunlap has worked as a writer-producer and on-camera talent for
public television. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he also performed as a
soloist and principal dancer with the Columbia City Ballet. Dunlap's poems,
essays, anthologies, guides, and opera libretti have been published widely. His
essay "Slouching Towards Spartanburg" was included in Hub City Anthology 2 (2002).
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A former Rhodes Scholar and two-time
Fulbright Senior Lecturer, Dunlap has spoken widely in the United States and abroad for
organizations such as the Aspen Institute, the Africa Leadership Initiative,
the Central European Leadership Initiative, the Netflix Corporation, Young
& Rubicam, the Nova Chemical Corporation, and the Arab Banking
Corporation. In 2006, he received an honorary doctorate from his alma
mater, Sewanee: The University of the South. Often recognized for his teaching
and research accomplishments, Dunlap recently finished his first novel, Famous Dogs of the Civil War.
Dunlap
has held academic appointments at Harvard
University, the University
of South Carolina, and Wofford College, where he was named the Chapman
Family Professor in the Humanities. Currently, he serves as the tenth president
of Wofford College. Dunlap has been married to Anne
Boyd Dunlap since 1963. They have three grown children, and enjoy living on the
Wofford campus in the historic President's House.
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