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

2/18 - David Reynolds on John Brown
"Was Brown Black? Race, Culture, and Militant Abolitionism"

2/25 -Richard Rambuss (Emory University) - "Deep Purple"
Author of Closet Devotions and Spenser's Secret Career
Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Interdisciplinary Group

3/4 - ESA Conference - Schedule TBA.

3/11 - Two events:

2 pm Feminist Press talk

4 pm Elizabeth Alexander
Cosponsored with Africana Studies Group

3/18- Three events:

2:00-3:00 pm
Martin E. Segal Theatre
ELAINE SHOWALTER, Professor Emerita, Princeton University , in conversation with
NANCY K. MILLER, Distinguished Professor, English, Comparative Literature and French,
Introduction: WAYNE KOESTENBAUM

4 pm


Open House for Applicants - Elebash Recital Hall

4 pm
Robert A. Gross, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor of Early American History, The University of Connecticut, Storrs
"The Transformation of Walden, 1845-1855: The Fate of Social Reform and Political Radicalism in the North."
Skylight Room
Event Co-sponsored by the American Studies Certificate Program, the Ph.D. Program in History, and the Ph.D. Program in English

3/25 - No forum. GC closed

4/1 - TBA

4/8 - TBA

4/15 - Shakespeare Conference

4/22 - Alumni Lecture - Lisa Williams reading from "Letters to Virginia Woolf"

4/29 - No forum. GC closed

5/6 - Victorian Conference - Segal Theatre, Time and speaker TBA

5/13 - Revels - time and room TBA