English Department Lectures and Events 2011-12
Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12
See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday October 5 6:30 p.m. |
A. J. Jacobs ’90 (Personal Journalism) My Life as an Experiment: I came, I saw, I became part of the story. Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor |
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| Thursday October 13 12:00-1:30 p.m. |
Axel Nesme, Université de Lyon-2 “Ulalume”: Poe’s Elegy on the Death of Interpretation Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and the Department of English. |
| Wednesday October 19 5:30 p.m. |
Irene Tucker, University of California, Irvine Before Racial Construction: Kant, Dermatology and the Racialization of Skin Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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| Monday October 24 5:30 p.m. |
Amanda Anderson, The Johns Hopkins University The Political Novel of Ideas Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street |
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| Thursday November 3 5:30 p.m. |
Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign The 21st Century American International Novel: A Brief History Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12
See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Wednesday November 9 6:30 p.m. |
Brown Emerging Writers' panel Kevin Roose '09 (Cultural Analysis) Lindsay Harrison '08 (Memoir) Brian Christian '06 (Science/Culture) Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor |
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| Thursday November 10 5:30 p.m. |
David Lloyd, University of Southern California The Poetics of Decision: Yeats, Benjamin and Schmitt Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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| Thursday December 1 5:30 p.m. |
Frederick Moten, Duke University The Touring Machine Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor This event is made possible by the Wetmore Fund for Literature. |
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Talk: Visualizing in Black Print: The Brooklyn Correspondence
of William J. Wilson aka 'Ethiop'
| Monday January 23, 2012 5:30 p.m. |
Radiclani Clytus, Assistant Professor of English at Tufts University
Barker Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Talk: THE LAW IS YOUR MOTHER: ANIMAL METAPHOR AND REPRODUCTION IN LAW AND THE LITERARY IMAGINATION OF ZORA NEALE HURSTON
| Monday January 30, 2012 5:30 p.m. |
Zakiyyah Jackson, University of California, Berkeley Barker Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Talk: " 'You've Become so...American': The Post-9/11 Turn in African American Literature"
| Monday February 6, 2012 5:30 p.m. |
Erica Edwards, Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside Barker Room 315, 70 Brown St. |
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Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12
See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Monday February 13, 2012 6:30 p.m. |
David Rohde ’90 (Investigative Journalism) The Art of Reporting: From investigative stories to columns, the irreplaceable value of 'ground truth.' Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor |
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| Monday March 5, 2012 5:30 p.m. |
Jonathan Goldberg, Emory University Samson Uncircumcised Brown/RISD Hillel, 80 Brown Street, 2nd floor |
| Tuesday March 20, 2012 Time: TBD |
Christopher Nealon, The Johns Hopkins University Title: TBD Location:TBD |
| Tuesday April 17, 2012 Time: 4:00 p.m. |
Andre Dubus, III 'Townie': Writing Memoir Location: Barker Room 315, 70 Brown Street This event is made possible by the Center for Race and Ethnicity. Co-sponsored by the Shane Family Program Fund and the Nonfiction Writing Program, Department of English. |
Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series 2011-12
See the Series Poster
Series Organizer: Elizabeth Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Nonfiction Writing Program
| Monday May 7, 2012 6:30 p.m. |
Pico Iyer Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Writing--and Rewriting--Our New Global Swirl Location: Granoff Center, Martinos Auditorium, 154 Angell Street |