Department of English
Past Events
Program 2007 - 2008
Debora Shuger, Professor of English at UCLA, April 20, 2007
Program 2006 - 2007
Ralph C. Woods , Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University, October 26, 2006
Program 2005 - 2006
Jean Howard, “Credit and Incarceration: Staging the Early Modern Debtors' Prison,” November 11, 2005
Program 2004 - 2005
The Atlantic World, "Creating Identity and Empire in the
Atlantic World, 1492-1888," September 17-18, 2004
Sponsored by:
The English Department and
The History Department
Program 2003 - 2004
Bonnie Wheeler, "Sadism and Scholars: Chaucer's Clerk's Tale," March 18, 2004
Nancy Armstrong,"Feminism and the Utopian Promise of Fiction," November 7, 2003
Michael Bérubé, "Aesthetics of Cultural Studies," September 12, 2003
Program 2002 - 2003
David Cowart, "Trailing Clouds: Recent Immigrant Writing," April 4, 2003
Cheryl Glenn,"Engendering Silence," March 28, 2003
Jean-Michel Rabaté, "Theorizing after Joyce," February 21, 2003
Programs 2001-2002
Technology in the College English Classroom: Literature, Culture, Pedagogy, April 5-6, 2002
Programs 2000-2001
Gail McDonald, "Juxtaposition," April 20, 2001
David Sedaris, Reading from Me Talk Pretty One Day, Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Keith Cushman, "Manhattan Modernism," April 6, 2001
Martha Vicinus,"Nostalgia and Homosexual Desire: Love and Death in the 1890's," April 4, 2001
Michael Levenson, "Where Was Modernism? Spaces in the English Avant-garde," March 23, 2001
Stephen Booth,"On Acting," February 2001
Peter Preston, Speaking on contemporary British fiction in relation to early twentieth-century fiction, November 2, 2000
Joseph Harris, "New Sites for Composition," September 20, 2000
Peter Dimock, reading from his novel A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family, September 6 and 7, 2000