Critical Speaker Series
The Critical Speaker Series of the Department of English and Comparative Literature is a graduate-student-run program featuring outstanding and innovative scholars in the literary humanities. It showcases their contributions for the larger University community and the public.
For more information, please contact criticalspeakerseries@gmail.com
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2022-23 Critical Speakers Series
Dr. Elizabeth Anker (Cornell), November 3-4, 2022
Dr. Mary Pat Brady (Cornell), November 10, 2022 (via Zoom; co-sponsored with the Latino Studies Program)
Dr. Stephanie DeGooyer (UNC-Chapel Hill), November 15, 2022: Book launch for Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (Johns Hopkins UP, 2022); with comments from Dr. Charlotte Sussman (Duke)
Dr. Jean-Thomas Tremblay (York University), February 22-23, 2023
Dr. Ronjaunee Chatterjee (Queen’s University), late spring 2023
See our social media, linked above, for specific times and locations
Upcoming Lecture
Dr. Elizabeth Anker, “The Project of Theory Post-Dobbs“
Thursday, November 3 at 3:00 PM in Wilson Library’s Pleasants Family Assembly Room
Upcoming Seminar
Dr. Elizabeth Anker
Friday, November 4 at 1:00 PM in the Campus Y, Room 207
Videos from past Critical Speakers Series
Anjuli Raza-Kolb University of Toronto)
“Indian Country.” (Wednesday, October 6, 2021)
Alexander Weheliyem (Northwestern University)
: Black Life / SchwarzSein (Monday, February 1, 2021)
Theo Davis (Northeastern University)
: “Enough”: Melville’s Momentary Intersubjectivity (Thursday, September 24, 2020)
Nan Z. Da (University of Notre Dame): “Tracking Devices: King Lear and Modern China” (March 4, 2020)
Cary Wolfe (Rice University): “Autoimmunities” (September 26, 2019)
Heather Love (University of Pennsylvania): “The Book that Came in from the Cold: Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt” (January 25, 2017)
Jack Halberstam, University of Southern California: “Becoming Feral: Sex, Death, and Falconry” (April 2016)
Alan Liu, University of California at Santa Barbara: “Key Trends in the Digital Humanities: How the Digital Humanities Challenge the Idea of the Humanities” (February 9, 2016)
Laura L. Knoppers, University of Notre Dame: “‘By her owne directions’: Margaret Cavendish, Gender, and Early Modern Medicine” (September 30, 2015)
Pamela Smith, Columbia University: “From Matter to Ideas: Making Natural Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” (April 7, 2014)
Jonathan Kramnick, The Johns Hopkins University: “Presence of Mind” (March 6, 2014)
Mark McGurl, Stanford University: “The Institution of Nothing: David Foster Wallace and Taxes” (November 27, 2012)
Adrian Johns, University of Chicago: “The Invention of Scientific Reading” (April 10, 2012)