The Josephine G. Ferguson Lectures

Past Speakers

 

2007

"The Ache of Modernism: The Victorians' Failing Gods"

Christopher Lane
Northwestern University

Thursday, April 5th 2007 at 7:30 pm

2006

"Male Voices in the Bronte Fictions"
Ulrich Knoepflmacher
Paton Foundation Professor of Ancient and Modern Literature, Princeton University

2005

"Jane Austen and War"
Claudia L. Johnson
Murray Professor of English Literature, Princeton University

2004

"Victorian Multi-plotted Novels as Models of Community: The Example of Anthony Trollope"
J. Hillis Miller
Professor Emeritus, University of California-Irvine

2003

"Beyond Mastery:  The Future of Conrad's Beginnings"
Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Director of the National Humanities Center, North Carolina
Pierce Butler Chair of English, Tulane University

2002

"Desirable Desire: The Familiar Middle Ages"
Helen Cooper
University College, Oxford, UK

2001

"Flesh and the Victorians"
Valentine Cunningham
Oxford University
 

2000

"Hamlet in Purgatory"
Stephen Greenblatt
Harvard University

1999

"Talk and Tactics: The Alice Books"
Gillian Beer
Cambridge University
 

1998

"A. E. Housman: ‘No more poetical than anagrams’"
Christopher Ricks
Boston University
 

1997

"'Spontaneous Numbers': Wordsworth and 
Poetic Composition"
Stephen Gill
Oxford University
 

1996

"The Victorian Novel: Forms, Themes and 
Literary Techniques"
David Grylls
Oxford University
 

1995

"Melancholy Madness and the Dismal Science 
in Dickens’s Hard Times "
Catherine Gallagher
University of California, Berkeley
 

1994

"Is Pip Postmodern? Or, Dickens at the End 
of the Twentieth Century"
Jay Clayton
Vanderbilt University
 

1993

"Failed Victorian Honeymoons"
Helena Michie
Rice University
 

1992

"The Case of the Poisonous Book: Mass Literacy as 
Threat in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction"
Patrick Brantlinger
Indiana University
 

1991

"Spiritually Inquisitive Images: The Influence of 
Modern Painting on Wallace Stevens"
Daniel Schwarz
Cornell University
 

1990

"Ectoplasm and Evil: Women’s Ghosts"
Nina Auerbach
University of Pennsylvania