Past Speakers

1997
Wayne Booth, University of Chicago, October 20
Deborah McDowell, University of Virginia, November 12

1998
Nina Baym, University of Illinois, October 22

1999
Helen Vendler, Harvard University, October 21

2000
Linda Hutcheon, University of Toronto, November 15

2001
Susan Gubar, Indiana University, October 11

2002
Steve Mailloux, University of California, Irvine, October 17

2003
Jay Fliegelman, Stanford University, October 16

2004
Hortense Spillers, Cornell University, September 30

2005
Robert Scholes, Brown University, September 27

2006
Margorie Garber, Harvard University, November 9

2007
Eric Sundquist, UCLA, October 3

2008
Roland Greene, Stanford University, October 23

2009
Dana D. Nelson, Vanderbilt University, October 22

2010
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University, September 13

2011
Robert D. Nixon, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 15

2012
Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, September 13

2013
Srinivas Aravamudan, Duke University, September 20

2015
Mark McGurl, Stanford University, September 15

2016
José David Saldivar, Stanford University, September 7

2017
Martin Puchner, Harvard University, September 14

2018
Anna Brickhouse, University of Virginia, September 27

2019
Margot Crawford, University of Pennsylvania, October 10

2020-21
Meredith McGill, Rutgers University, March 11, 2021

2021
Sinead Moynihan, Exeter University, November 10

2023
N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles, April 5
Timothy Melley, Miami University, September 27