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Gilbert Lectures


Spring 2012

Thurs., Feb. 9--Felicity Nussbaum
6:00 p.m. Reception, Texana Room, DeGolyer Library
6:30 p.m. Reading, Stanley Marcus Reading Room, DeGolyer Library

Thurs., Mar. 29--Helena Michie as part of the Charles Dickens 150th Anniversary
6:00 p.m. Reception, Texana Room, DeGolyer Library
6:30 p.m. Reading, Stanley Marcus Reading Room, DeGolyer Library

 

Previous Gilbert Lecture Series Events:

 


Fall 2011

Thurs., Sept. 22--James Shapiro “Contest Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?”
6:00 p.m. Reception, Entry Way to McCord Auditorium
6:30 p.m., Lecture

Thurs., Sept. 29--C. W. Smith Book, Steplings  book launch
6:00 p.m. Reception, Texana Room, DeGolyer Library
6:30 p.m. Reading, Stanley Marcus Reading Room, DeGolyer Library


Thurs., Nov. 3--Stephanie Cain Van D’Elden, Pictures Tell the Story: Tristan and Isolde in Medieval Illustrations
6:30 p.m. Reception, 306 Dallas Hall, McCord Auditorium
7:00 p.m. Lecture


Spring 2011

February 24--Joseph Roach, "Writing New Orleans: An Ambient Poetics"
April 7--Terry Castle, "Becoming an Orphan"
April 27--Rhonda Garelick, "Fashioning Identity: ORLAN and the Harlequin Coat"

 

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October 16, 2009 – Peter Swaab, “Sara Coleridge, An unpublished Poet and her Audience”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

 
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