2014-2015 Lecturer: Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
Lecture: “Drown”
Seminar: “Elemental Ecocriticism”
Dr. Cohen’s most recent book: Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman
2013-2014 Lecturer: Eric Hayot
Lecture: “Near Stars: Scale and the Nature of the Literary Object”
Seminar: “What Kind of Information Is Literature?”
Dr. Hayot’s most recent book: On Literary Worlds
2012-2013 Lecturer: Rachel Adams
Lecture: “Forbidden Intimacies: Sexuality and Intellectual Disability”
Seminar: “Memoir and Disability”
Dr. Adam’s most recent book: Raising Henry: a Memoir of Motherhood, Disability & Discovery
2011-2012 Lecturer: Sianne Ngai
Lecture: The Zany Science: Gender and Post-Fordist Performance
Seminar: Aesthetic Categories
Dr. Ngai’s most recent book: Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting
2010-11 Lecturer: Alexander Weheliye
Lecture: “Ideogrammatics as Physiognomy”
Seminar: “Without Comparison: W.E.B. Du Bois’s and Walter Benjamin’s Modernities”
Dr. Weheliye’s most recent book: Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity
2009-2010 Lecturer: Kirsten Silva Gruesz
Lecture: “Cotton Mather’s Spanish Lessons”
Dr. Gruesz’s most recent book:
Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing
2008-2009 Lecturer: Joseph Slaughter
Lecture: “Pathetic Fallacies”
Seminar: “Literature and Humanitarianism”
Dr. Slaughter’s most recent book: Human Rights, Inc.: The World Novel, Narrative Form, and International Law
2007-2008 Lecturer: Stephen Greenblatt
Lecture: “The Strange Case of Shakespeare’s Cardenio”
Dr. Greenblatt’s most recent book:
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
2006-2007 Lecturer: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Lecture: “The Weather in Proust”
Dr. Sedgwick’s last published book:
Touching, Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
2005-2006 Lecturer: Bruce Robbins
Lecture: “Where Stuff Comes From: Rhetorics of Transnational Connection”
Dr. Robbins’s most recent book:
Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
2004-2005 Lecturer: Carl P. Eby
Lecture: “‘He Felt the Change so that It Hurt Him All Through’: Fetishism, Sodomy, and Transvestic Hallucination in Late Hemingway”
Dr. Eby’s most recent book:
Hemingway’s Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood
