All lectures take place at 4 p.m. in Room 4406, and are followed by a reception, unless otherwise noted.

2/3       Nadine Cohodas, the biographer of Dinah Washington
           An Ambivalent Queen:  Music, Myth, and Culture 1940-1963

2/10     Linda Grasso, York College, CUNY
           "My Letter to the World": Letters, Letter Writing, and Nineteenth-Century U.S.             Women’s Literary History (faculty membership lecture)

2/17     Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island, CUNY
            When Harper Speaks to Emerson and Dreiser to Gilman: Reconfiguring the                    American Canon (faculty membership lecture)

2/24     Feminist Pedagogies conference (1-5 p.m.)

3/3       2 p.m. Postcolonial Studies group event

           4 p.m. Sukhdev Sandhu: The Strange and Violent Case of Mr. Biswas

3/10     Recruitment Day

3/17     Alumni event

           Medieval Studies Conference (venues to be announced)

3/24     ESA conference (8th floor and Elebash Recital Hall)

3/31     2 p.m. Field Day

           4 p.m. Carrie Hintz, Queens College, CUNY
           ‘These little private Histories’: Margaret Baxter, Restoration Dissent, and the                   Exemplary Woman  (faculty membership lecture)
           
4/7       2 p.m. Professor Emeritus Speed Hill

           4 p.m. Claus Uhlig, University of Marburg
           European Literature and/or World Literature: Auerbach Compared to Curtius
           
4/12 – 23 Spring Break

4/28     Annual English Shakespeare Lecture – Segal Theater

5/5       Field Days:       2 p.m. Modernism
                                   4 p.m. African American

5/12     Victorian conference (Elebash Recital Hall)

5/19     Revels and Student Poetry Reading (organized by student Cori Gabbard)