Lecture Series in English 2006-2007
| Lecturer | Lecture Title | Date & Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Plotz, Brandeis University | India's First Strawberries: Cultural Portability in Victorian Greater Britain | Monday October 23 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Media |
| Marjorie Garber, Harvard University | Patronizing the Arts | Thursday November 2 4:00 p.m. |
The Glenn & Darcy Weiner Center, Brown Hillel, 80 Brown St. Reception to follow in the English Department Lounge at 70 Brown Street |
| David Halperin, University of Michigan | What Do Gay Men Want? Sex, Risk, and the Subjective Life of Male Homosexuality | Monday November 6 5:00 p.m. |
Brown Hillel 80 Brown St. Co-sponsored by the Departments of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Media, the Pembroke Center, and the Cogut Center for the Humanities |
| Jay Allison, Independent Broadcast Journalist | This I Believe and the Art of Citizen Storytelling | Monday November 20 7:00 p.m. |
Smith Buonanno 106 |
Lectures & Events 2005-2006
Great Writers Lecture Series
The Great Writers Lecture Series presents four of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of our time, brought to Brown by the Expository Writing Program in the Department of English. The program uniquely links academic writing with all forms of nonfiction: literary journalism, memoir, lyric essay, and the narrative of science, history, and travel.
| Lecturer | Lecture Title | Date & Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Judith Ortiz Cofer, Department of English, University of Georgia | Writing the Bi-cultural Memoir | Wednesday October 5 6:30 p.m. |
Salomon Center 001 |
| Alan Lightman, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Writing the Science Narrative Einstein Lecture |
Wednesday November 16 6:30 p.m. |
Salomon Center 001 |
| John D'Agata, Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English, University of Iowa | Writing the Lyric Essay | Wednesday February 15 6:30 p.m. |
MacMillan Hall 117 |
| Marian Wright Edelman, Founder and President, Children's Defense Fund | Writing the Political Memoir Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture |
Tuesday April 11 6:30 p.m. |
Salomon 101 |
The Great Writers Lecture Series is made possible through generous contributions from the Charles K. Colver Lectureship and Publication Fund, the Zucker Family Endowment, the Goldway/Shearer family, the Dean of the College, the Department of Physics, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, the Literary Arts Program, the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research, the Department of Modern Culture and Media, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Africana Studies Department, and the Department of Hispanic Studies.
English Department Lecture Series
| Lecturer | Lecture Title | Date & Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh | Toward a History of the Slave Ship | Tuesday November 8 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
| K. Ian Grandison, University of Virginia | Razing the Dead: Interment and American Spatial Ideology at Jefferson's Monticello | Thursday April 20 4:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
David H. Hirsch Memorial Lecture Series in American Literature
| Lecturer | Lecture Title | Date & Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| William Pannapacker, Hope College | Walt Whitman and the City | Wednesday September 28 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
| Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University | Global Civil Society: Thoreau on Three Continents | Wednesday October 12 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
| Timothy Marr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | American Ishmael: Melville's Muslim Modalities | Monday October 24 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
| Hsuan Hsu, Yale University | Genre, Geography, and the Production of Scale in Nineteenth-Century America | Thursday November 3 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
| Meredith McGill, Rutgers University | Circulating Ballads: The Preliterary and the Paraliterary in Antebellum American Literature | Thursday November 17 5:00 p.m. |
Barker Presentation Room 315 70 Brown St. |
This series is made possible by a generous gift from Robert R. and Susan Clark Levine '73. Series Organizer: Professor Mutlu Blasing.
English Department Graduate Student Lecture
| Lecturer | Lecture Title | Date & Time | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mary Poovey, New York University | Jane Austen and the Spectral Event | Thursday September 15 5:30 p.m. |
The Glenn & Darcy Weiner Center, Brown Hillel, 80 Brown St. |
Lectures & Events 2004-2005
Affiliated conference: Fifth International Conference on Laʒamon's BRUT, August 1-6, 2004
Lecture by Edward Watts: "The Leaden Plates: French Colonial History and Postcolonial America" Wednesday, November 3, 2004.
Affiliated conference: Beyond Colonial Studies: An Interamerican Encounter, November 4-6, 2004
Lectures & Events 2003-2004
Fall Lecture Series: New Work in African American Studies
| Field Group | Lecturer | Date | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| III | Michelle Wright, Associate Professor, Macalester College | 9/23/2003 | Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora |
| III | Rolland Murray, Assistant Professor, Ohio State University | 10/7/2003 | The 'Clumsy Trap' of Manhood: Revolutionary Nationalism, John Edgar Wideman, and the Problem of Masculine Ideology |
| III | Arlene Keizer, Associate Professor, University of Michigan | 10/21/2003 | Gayl Jones, Kara Walker, and African American Postmemory |
| III | Naomi Pabst, Assistant Professor, Yale University | 11/5/2003 | Invisible Empires: Canada and the Black Diaspora |
| III | Brent Edwards, Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University | 11/5/2003 | Late Romance |
Creative Writing Program and Department of English Geri Braman Hill '41 Lecture Series
| Lecturer | Date | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|
| Susan Stewart, Donald T. Regan Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania | 9/29/2003 | Praising Dejection: The "Dejection Ode" of the romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
Spring Lecture Series: Other Orientalisms
Sponsored by the Pembroke Center for Research and Teaching on Women, The Malcolm S. Forbes Center, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Graduate Student Council.
| Date & Time | Lecture Title | Lecturer | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| February 16 4:00 p.m. |
Rethinking Orientalism | Henry Yu, Department of History, UCLA | Smith Buonano Rm. 106 |
| February 27 4:00 p.m. |
Re-Orienting the Renaissance: The View from Agra | Ania Loomba, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania | Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room |
| March 24 4:00 p.m. |
Nagakami, Irigaray, and the Way of Breath | Margherita Long, Department of Comparative Literature, University of California Riverside | Petteruti Lounge, Faunce House |
| April 8 4:00 p.m. |
Shadowing History: National Narratives and the Persistence of the Everyday | Harry Harootunian, Department of East Asian Studies, New York University | Smith Buonano Rm. 106 |
| April 22 4:00 p.m. |
Occluded Voices, Occult Transmissions: Religion after Religion in Literary Modernism | Gauri Viswanathan, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University | Alumnae Hall, Crystal Room |
Lectures Series: New Work in English Literatures and Cultures
| Field Group | Lecturer | Date | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| I & II | David S. Shields, Professor, The Citadel | 9/24/2001 | The Learned World |
| I | Jeffrey J. Cohen, Associate Professor of English, George Washington University | 12/6/2001 | The Becoming-Liquid of Margery Kempe |
| I | Mary Baine Campbell, Professor of English and American Literature, Brandeis University | 3/13/2002 | The Dreaming Body: Cartesian Psychology, Enlightenment Anthropology and the People of the New World |
| II | Anne Mellor, Professor of English, UCLA | 4/5/2002 | Liberating Female Desire: Romantic Orientalism and Charlotte Dacre's ZEFLOYA |
| II & III | Timothy Watson, Assistant Professor of English, Princeton University | 4/23/2002 | From Man Friday to Brother Quamina: African Conversion and the Romantic Novel in the British West Indies |
Lecture Series 2000-2001: New Work in English Literatures and Cultures
| Field Group | Lecturer | Date | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Nicholas Watson, Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University | 3/14/2001 | The Visionary Mode: Inventing the World in Middle English |
| III | Rosemary Marangoly George, Associate Professor, Literature Department, University of California, San Diego | 3/22/2001 | Partitioned into Diaspora / Born Besides Nations: Fictional Representations of the 1947 Partition of the Indian Subcontinent |
Lecture Series 1999-2000: New Work in English Literatures and Cultures
| Field Group | Lecturer | Date | Lecture Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| I | Wendy Wall, Associate Professor, Northwestern University | 2/17/2000 | In Memory's Kitchen: Domestic Fantasy in Early Modern English Drama |
| I | Seth Lerer, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University | 3/21/2000 | The Future of the Past: Early Modern Studies in the Twenty-First Century |
| II | Srinivas Aravamudan, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Washington | 12/6/1999 | In the Wake of the Novel: The Oriental Tale as National Allegory |
| II | Priscilla Wald, Professor, Duke University | 3/16/2000 | Humanities' Borders: From the Shtetl to the Ghetto in Sociology and Fiction |
| II | Wil Verhoeven, Professor and Chair of American Literature at the University of Groningen, Netherlands | 4/18/2000 | A Seminar on Transatlantic Literary Relations during the Early Nineteenth Century |
| III | Sean McCann, Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University | 3/2/2000 | Achieving the Disembodied: Stein and the Evolution of American Nationalism |
| III | Vilashini Cooppan, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University | 3/8/2000 | The Literature of Transition: Post-coloniality and the 'new' South Africa |