Resident Fellows

Daniel Mason || Fall 2005

The second Departmental Resident in 2005-2006 was Daniel Mason, in residence in the Department of English in October 2005. Mason, a novelist, medical doctor, and art critic, is best known for his novel The Piano Tuner (Knopf, 2002). This best-seller follows a British piano tuner to Burma, where he has been commissioned to tune a rare grand piano in the jungle hideaway of an eccentric British surgeon-major. An exploration of late Victorian imperialism and aesthetics, set in a part of the world where Mason himself spent a year researching malaria, the novel was written when Mason was a 26-year-old medical student. Mason has also conducted medical research in Brazil and Ecuador, and has published in popular and medical journals.

Public Events

Art and Psychosis and the Brazilian Artist Arthur Bispo do Rosario || October 2005

Public Reading || October 2005