Background
Benson, Peter Son of Peter and Ann Benson.
literature and language professor
Benson, Peter Son of Peter and Ann Benson.
Bachelor, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1970. Master of Arts, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979. Doctor of Philosophy, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1979.
Vice president State University of New York, 1977—1978. Visiting research fellow Rockefeller Foundation, New York City, 1978—1980. Lecturer Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone, 1981—1983.
Program officer National Humanities Faculty, Atlanta, 1984. Professor English Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey, since 1987. Fulbright professor Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya, University Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, 1984—1986, University Chiekh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal, 1990—1992.
Life partner Deborah Southwood-Smth. Children from previous marriage: Charles, Christopher, Mathieu, David.