Featured Speaker Series
Events that feature primarily an English Department Faculty, or a speaker that the English Department is sponsoring to speak.
Past Events
Professor Vermeule will discuss the benefits of both action and contemplation which is the topic of her recent book, Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters.
The chair of the English department, Blakey Vermeule, and the Senior Associate Dean of the Humanities and Arts, Lanier Anderson, invite you to the first…
A recent surge in popularity of George Orwell’s 1984 offers us a unique opportunity to come together as a community over a text of wide interest and…
Please join us on May 4th for our spring quarter Faculty Research Fellows Chautauqua.
Jessica Riskin will present material from her new book, The Restless Clock:
Presenter: William Warner is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focuses on the long history of mediation, from 18th-century print culture and 20th-century media.…
Presenter: William Warner is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. His research and teaching focuses on the long history of mediation, from 18th-century print culture and 20th-century media.…
Presenter: Nicholas Mathew is Associate Professor and Weisman Schutt Chair in Music at the University of California, Berkeley.
Zachary Leader is a professor of English Literature at University of Roehampton.
Professor Gumbrecht will discuss poetry as a genre that needs recital/vocal realization in order to be fully redeemed, and he will use the concept “presence” both in the temporal and (his) spatial…
