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Department of English Lecture Series

Lecture Series 2009/2010 Schedule

Unless otherwise noted, all lectures are at 4:30pm in the Wren Room at Sanborn House, with a reception to follow immediately in the Poetry Room

Summer 2009

Tuesday, August 18 (4:00): Yvette Christianse reading from her work*

Poet and fiction writer

Associate Professor of English, Fordham University

Co-sponsored by AAAS, Creative Writing, the Dickey Center, and WGST

Fall 2009

Thursday, October 1 (Carson L02, 4:15): James Shapiro - When Shakespeare Turned Autobiographical*

Larry Miller Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University

Leon Black Lecture Series

Monday, October 5 (4:15): Peter Swaab - Sara Coleridge: An Unpublished Poet and Her Audience*

Reader in English, University College, London

Leon Black Lecture Series

Thursday, October 8 (107 Hanover Inn, 7 pm): Gordon Hutner

Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Faculty seminar only

Thursday, October 29 (2:30): Jonathan Goldberg - Samson Uncircumcised: On Milton's Samson Agonistes

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of English, Emory University  Please note change in time

Monday, November 2 (4:15 pm): Merle Hodge reading from her work

Senior Lecturer, University of the West Indies at St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago

Visiting Professor of English at Dartmouth, Fall Term, 2009

Tuesday, November 17 (4:15 pm): Robert Cummings - Reading for Beauties: The English Du Bartas

Honorary Research Fellow in English Literature, University of Glasgow

Visiting Professor of English at Dartmouth, Fall Term, 2009

Winter 2010

Spring 2010

 

 

* Not part of the English Department Lecture Series


 


  

 

 





Last Updated: 10/25/09