Cambridge University Press’s Contours series presents four leading scholars of Beat literature in conversation with Ato Quayson at Stanford University:

 

Steven Belletto, Professor of English at Lafayette College, editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Beats and The Cambridge Companion to Jack Kerouac, and author of The Beats: A Literary History, and Black Surrealist: The Legend of Ted Joans

 

Ann Charters, Professor Emerita of American Literature at the University of Connecticut and a founder of Beat literary studies; author and editor of many books, including Kerouac: A Biography, Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation, The Portable Beat Reader, and The Portable Jack Kerouac

 

Oliver Harris, Professor Emeritus of American Literature at Keele University, President of the European Beat Studies Network, author and editor of many books, including William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination and One Shot: A Beat Generation Mystery, and co-editor of the forthcoming William S. Burroughs in Context

 

Erik Mortenson, English faculty member at Lake Michigan College, author of Capturing the Beat Moment: Cultural Politics and the Poetics of Presence, co-editor of The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation and Rethinking Kerouac: Afterlives, Continuities, Reappraisals, and editor of the forthcoming Allen Ginsberg in Context

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxzxGqxOfHU&list=PLTK8KRW19hUWgbqDwSBokGNIhgC4AsOSw&index=1&t=7s