Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture Series
Chairman Peede is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University, graduating with an undergraduate degree in English in 1991. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2018 as the eleventh chairman of the NEH. Peede’s previous positions include Publisher of the Virginia Quarterly Review at the University of Virginia, Literature Grants Director at the National Endowment for the Arts, and Counselor to NEA Chairman Dana Gioia. His campus visit will also honor the 30th anniversary of the Warren Center’s founding.
Click here for an interview with Chairman Peede. Originally published as "Storyteller, Editor, Chairman: An Interview with Jon Parrish Peede" in the Summer 2018 issue of Humanities magazine, a publication of the National Endowment for the Humanities.”