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We sponsor visiting speakers, a monthly faculty reading group (at which members discuss a recent piece of published scholarship or share their own works-in-progress), and a biennial May faculty seminar for intensive study of interdisciplinary topics.
Guest Speakers
- Andrew Stauffer, Associate Professor and Director of NINES at the University of Virginia (Book Traces)
- Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biographer
- Lawrence Buell, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University
- William Cronon, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor and Vilas Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Lilian Furst, Marcel Bataillon Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
- Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor of Law at New York Law School and Professor of History at Rutgers University-Newark
- Patricia Hills, Professor of Art History at Boston University
- Rosemary Lloyd, Rudy Professor of French and Italian at Indiana University
- Jerome McGann, John Stewart Bryan University Professor at the University of Virginia
- Andrew Miller and David Katzman, editors of Victorian Studies and American Studies, respectively
- Allan Pasco, Hall Professor of Nineteenth-Century Studies at the University of Kansas
- Vivian Pollak, Professor of English at Washington University at St. Louis
- Mary Poovey, Director of the Institute for the History of Production of Knowledge at New York University
- TJ Stiles, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown, President of the Southern Historical Association
Affiliated Faculty Symposia
- William G. Thomas III, Professor of History and Angle Professor in the Humanities
- Melissa J. Homestead, Professor of English
“Nebraska, New England, New York: Mapping the Foreground to Cather and Lewis' Creative Partnership” - Stephen Behrendt, Professor of English and George Holmes Distinguished Professor
“Peterloo, Ambivalence, and the Popular Culture” - Matt Cohen, Professor of English and Nicole Gray, Research Assistant Professor of English
“Walt Whitman's Leaves” - Beverley Rilett, Research Assistant Professor of English
“The Role of George Henry Lewes in George Eliot's Career: A Reconsideration”