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Gilbert Lectures Spring 2012
Previous Gilbert Lecture Series Events:
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Fall 2010: September 9, 2010 – Leonard Barkan, “Some Pages from Michelangelo’s Life” September 24, 2010 – Seth Lerer, “Memory and Marginalia: Children Writing in Books, Medieval to Modern” October 26, 2010 – Christopher Bakken, Poetry Reading November 18, 2010 – Eric Sundquist, “We dreamed a dream: Ralph Ellison, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Barack Obama”
Spring 2010: February 4, 2010 – Gordon Hutner, “Contemporary American Realism and the Fiction of Prestige” April 8, 2010 – Debra Shostak, “Phillip Roth and Late Styles” April 22, 2010 – Jill McCorkle, Fiction Reading
Fall 2009: September 22, 2009 – Amanda Anderson, “Politics and the Nineteenth Century British Novel” October 6, 2009 – Dan Chiasson, Poetry Reading October 16, 2009 – Peter Swaab, “Sara Coleridge, An unpublished Poet and her Audience” November 5, 2009 – Jeff Dolven, Styles of Disjunction
Spring 2009: February 12, 2009 – Joan Rubin, "Poetry in Practice: American Readers and the Uses of Verse, 1880-1950." February 26, 2009 – Greg Williamson, "Poetry Reading: A Most Marvelous Piece of Luck" March 26, 2009 – Sharon Willis, "Black Mentors and White Redemption: The Extraordinary Career of Sidney Poitier" April 16, 2009 – Alan Liu, "Digital Humanities and Academic Change"
Fall 2008: September 18, 2009 – Linda Hughes, "Navigating the Material(ity) of Victorian Print Culture" October 16, 2008 – Scott Capser, "The Selling of the President -- Nineteenth-Century Style" October 29, 2008 – Joycelyn Moody, "Re-mapping sex, texts and work: Black women writers and the slave trade." October 30, 2008 David McGlynn, "Flirting with Disaster--Turning Obsession into Fiction: A Conversation with David McGlynn about his Debut Story Collection, The End of the Straight and Narrow."
Spring 2008: February 11, 2008 – Mark Oppenheimer, “How Studying Oratory and Rhetoric Makes Us Better Citizens” February 21, 2008 – Jewell Parker Rhodes, “Douglass’ Woman – Reimagining History and Women’s Lives” March 27, 2008 – Robert Caserio, “In the Cage: Passion’s Inhibition of Agency in Novelistic Tradition” April 10, 2008 – Tom DiPiero, “How to Do Things with Birds”
Fall 2007: September 27, 2007 – Nicolas Kanellos October 25, 2007 – Mike McNally November 8, 2007 – Walter Benn Michaels
Spring 2007: February 8, 2007 – Karl Kirchwey, Poet February 13, 2007 – Jewell Parker Rhodes, Fiction and Non-Fiction Author February 20, 2007 – Adria Bernardi, Novelist and Poet March 30-31, 2007 – SMU Literary Festival March 30-31, 2007 – Marshall Terry Symposium April 12, 2007 – Mary Jo Salter April 13, 2007 – Recital of musical settings of Emily Dickinson’s poems, sung by soprano Virginia Dupuy
Spring 2006: February 2, 2006 – Tony Hoagland March 2, 2006 – Kirsten Silva Gruesz, “The Gulf of Mexico as Cultural Contact Zone” March 21, 2006 – Peter Field, “King Arthur’s Battles” March 29, 2006 – Cyrus Cassells |