All lectures are followed by a reception in Room 4406, unless otherwise noted.

September 13

Fall Alumni/ae Lecture: Christopher Hobson - "Ralph Ellison, Juneteenth, and African American Prophecy"
Associate Professor of Engish, State University of New York, College at Old Westbury

September 20

Tim Murphy - "Who is Toni Negri and Why are They Saying Such Terrible Things About Him?: Elements of a Pre-History of *Empire*"
Associate Professor. of English at the University of Oklahoma and General Editor of Genre
Co-Sponsored by The Program in Comparative Literature

September 27

Shelly Eversley -"Roots and Reason: Richard Wright and the Problem of Modernity"
Assistant Professor of English, Bernard Baruch College
Co-sponsored with Africana Studies Group

October 4

Job Forum

October 11

A Celebration of the Renaissance Society of America at CUNY: "Where was the Renaissance?: The Cultural Geography of the Rise of Modernity"

October 18

NEASECS Conference: "The Enlightenment and the Idea of Modernity"

October 25

Alan Ryan - "On Pragmatism"
Co-sponsored with The Center for the Humanities
Elebash Recital Hall

November 1

Robert Pack - "Robert Frost's 'As If' Belief"
Professor of English, University of Montana

November 8

Richard Kaye - "On Siegfried Sassoon"
Assistant Professor of English, Hunter College
Co-Sponsored with the Center the Humanities

November 15

Paul Fry - ""Wordsworth and the Occasion of Poetry"
Professor of English, Yale University

November 22

Geoffrey Batchen - "Photography and Conception"
Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center

November 29

Thanksgiving Holiday

December 6

Fall Faculty Lecture: N. John Hall - "The Arrogance of Literary Biography"

December 13

Winter Revels

All programs are free and open to the public.

The Graduate Center of CUNY is located at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street), New York , NY. Please telephone The Ph.D. Program in English for more information: 212.817.8315.

PhD Program in English
The Graduate Center City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Room 4409 New York, NY 10016-4309
telephone: 212-817-8315 fax: 212-817-1518
email: english@gc.cuny.edu