Dr. Michael Shapiro

Biography

Michael Shapiro, born in Yokohama, spent World War II in Japan and grew up speaking Russian, Japanese, and English. He earned degrees in Slavic Languages and Literatures from UCLA (A. B., ‘61) and Harvard (A. M., ‘62; Ph. D., ‘65). He has taught at Brown University, Columbia, UCLA, Princeton, UC Berkeley, and Green Mountain College, and has given hundreds of public lectures to academic audiences across the United States, Europe, South America, and China. He is a co-author with his late wife, Marianne Shapiro, a medievalist and Renaissance scholar, on "Figuration Verbal Art" (1988) and the second edition of "Sense Form Literature Language" (2009). His expanded edition of the book, "Speaking Self: Language Lore English Usage," was published by Springer in March 2017. His recent book, published in 2022, is titled "Logic Language: Semiotic Study of Speech."

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