Guest Lectures

2018

Professor Timo Müller (University of Regensburg): “Transnational Mobility on the American Road”

2017

Professor Jennifer Riddle Harding, Summer semester Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Washington & Jefferson College): “Puns in American Literature and Culture”

2015

Doctor James Deutsch (Smithsonian Institution and the George Washington University):  “A Psychoanalytical Approach to Folklore”

2014

Professor Barbara Ladd, Winter semester Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Emory University, Atlanta): “Beyond the Plantation: Race and Class at the Edge of the Swamp”

Professor Victor Castellani (University of Denver): “Tennessee Williams: On the Kindness of Strangers and Harshness of Kin”

Professor Carol Frost (Alfond Professor of English, Rollins College): “Elizabeth Bishop’s Inner Eye”

2013

Professor Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo): “Textual Sleuthing, Editorial Theory and the Manuscripts of Emily Dickinson”

Alice Notley (poet, Pulitzer Prize finalist): “Post-Olsonian Epic”

2011

Professor John T. Matthews, 2010-11 Fulbright Lecturer, Anglophone Literatures and Cultures, Charles University-Prague (Boston University): “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Problem of the South in American Literary Imagination”

Professor Paul Levitt (University of Colorado): “The Narrator as Hero in The Great Gatsby

2010

Eric S. Petersen (lawyer, Thomas Jefferson expert): “The Vision of Thomas Jefferson”

2008

Professor Valerie Miner, Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research (Stanford University): “Trespass and Settlement: Crossing the Gender Frontier in the American West”

Professor Hugh Silverman (Stony Brook University): “Being Postmodern Plural and The Sense of the World: From Plato to The Matrix”