Featured Speaker Series

Events that feature primarily an English Department Faculty, or a speaker that the English Department is sponsoring to speak.
Past Events
Gavin Jones (English) will discuss the reception of Steinbeck’s unpublished werewolf novel and what the fascination with wolves tells us about American literature.
A quick reminder that our first Poetics event will take place this FRIDAY 10/16 @ 1pm Pacific Time – Zoom details are available by registering here: …
"The one from which we aught to learn": What Indian Poets Imagined Latin American Literature Could Do
Speaker: Gavin Jones, Rehmus Family Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University
The 1891 Lectures in the Humanities: Ato Quayson
Dear all, the CMEMS Workshop (Center for Medieval and Early Studies) and the Department of English, would like…
Join Zachary Leader for an informal talk on the problems and pleasures of writing Saul Bellow’s biography.