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Director William Scheuerle of the Humanities Institute at the University of South Florida has recently stepped down. His successor, Silvio Gaggi, is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at USF. Professor Gaggi teaches courses dealing with various aspects of modern and postmodern culture, including courses focusing on film, film and music, technology and culture, and cultural theory. He has published articles dealing with the various arts of the twentieth century (painting, film, literature, and theater) in numerous journals. His books Modern/Postmodern, A Study in Twentieth Century Arts and Ideas was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 1989, and From Text to Hypertext, Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media was published by Penn in 1997.

The USF Humanities Institute provides a forum for dialogue and reflection on the significant achievements of the human spirit and basic questions of human life. Through a wide range of scholarly exchanges, research opportunities, lectures and seminars, the Institute supports an intellectual culture that encourages all members of the university community, as well as the public, to challenge our assumptions, re-evaluate our relationships with one another, and explore interrelations among past, present, and future. The Institute is a longstanding member of CHCI.