David Lenson

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David Lenson is a member of the core faculty in the Comparative Literature Department at UMass Amherst. He teaches the popular CompLit 131 - Brave New Worlds course and has a 4.7 rating on ratemyprofessors.com with 33 reviews. Audio recordings of Lenson's lectures in CompLit 131 during Fall 2004 are available online here along with a book list.

Lenson also has a weekly radio program on WMUA called MR² which features "interviews with local, regional, and national personalities in the arts, in politics, and in the world of ideas" as well as highlights from the Massachusetts Review. Several audio recordings of his interviews with authors on this program are available here from the Department of Special Collections and University Archives of the W.E.B. DuBois Library.

Lenson is known as a fascinating lecturer.

[edit] Trivia

Lenson plays sax in a blues band Mondays at Bishop's Lounge in Northampton.

[edit] Personal reviews

• I think the best thing I can say about this professor is that he treats even the youngest freshman as an equal worthy of dialogue. Take his classes, you won't be disappointed. --GMorehou^(talk) 18:35, 1 September 2007 (EDT)