English Department Lectures and Events 2009-10
The Roger B. Henkle Memorial Lecture
| Thursday September 24 5:00 p.m. |
Sharon Marcus '86, Columbia University Salome and the Drama of Celebrity Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., 2nd floor |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday October 7 6:30 p.m. |
Susan Cheever '65, Writer and Teacher The Art of Literary Memoir and Biography Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus |
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Lecture: Helen Thoreau's Anti-Slavery Scrapbook: Abolitionism and Transcendentalism in Concord, Massachusetts
| Lecture by Robert Gross, sponsored by the Howard Foundation. Thursday, October 8, in Pembroke 305. For more information about the Howard Foundation, see their web page. Cosponsored by the English Department. |  |
| Monday October 19 5:30 p.m. |
Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University Echoes of War: Biopolitics and Aesthetic Shock in Schiller, Goethe, and Wordsworth Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown St., 2nd floor |
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Lecture in Modern Culture & Media
| Wednesday November 4 5:30 p.m. |
Jeffrey Tucker, University of Rochester The Necessity of Models, of Alternatives: Samuel R. Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand 135 Thayer Street, Room 102 Co-sponsored by the English Department |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday November 11 6:30 p.m. |
David Shenk '88 Literary Investigative Journalism Smith-Buonanno 106, 95 Cushing Street, Pembroke Campus |
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Nonfiction Writing Program: The Rise of the New Taliban
| Monday November 16 4:00 p.m. |
David Rohde '90, Reporter, The New York Times
List Art Center, Room 120, 64 College St. This event is made possible by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
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Lecture in Modern Culture & Media
| Thursday November 19 12:00 p.m. |
Priscilla Wald, Duke University Human Being after Genocide: Cells, Genes, and Stories Wilson Hall 101, Main Green Co-sponsored by the English Department |
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Lecture Series: New Work in Old English
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Bryan, Associate Professor of English
| Thursday February 25 5:30 p.m. |
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee, Knoxville The Figure and the Frame: Reckoning, Representing, and Imagining Time in Anglo-Saxon England Barker Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature, and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Renaissance & Early Modern Studies |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday March 17 6:30 p.m. |
David Shields '78 Literary Nonfiction Salomon 001, main green |
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Graduate Student Lecture
| Thursday March 18 5:30 p.m. |
Diana Fuss, Princeton University Lovers Parting at Sunrise: Roland Barthes and the Modern Aubade Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street Sponsored by the Department of English and the Zucker Family Fund. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Modern Culture & Media and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Media and Culture, Philosophy, Theatre Arts & Performance Studies, the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the LGBTQ Resource Center, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center. |
Lecture Series: New Work in Old English
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Bryan, Associate Professor of English
| Thursday March 24 5:30 p.m. |
Robert Fulk, Indiana University Old English and the Powers of Philology: Textual Scholarship on the Margin Barker Room 315, 70 Brown St. This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature, and co-sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Program in Renaissance & Early Modern Studies |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture Series 2009-10
See the Series Poster (pdf format)
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Thursday April 8 6:30 p.m. |
Mara Liasson '77 Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture NPR National Political Reporting Salomon 101, main green |
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