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Monday, October 5 (4:15): Peter Swaab - Sara Coleridge: An Unpublished Poet and Her Audience*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