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
Sharon Marcus flyer

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
 Susan Cheever

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. Robt Gross Lecture

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
 Marc Redfield

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
 Jeffrey Tucker

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
 David Shenk

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.
Rohde flyer

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
 Priscilla Wald

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
 

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
 David Shields

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
 

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
Liasson photo

 

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