Colloquium Series

The English Department sponsors a series of visits by scholars from other universities who present recent research and interact with graduate students. Recent visitors have included:

• Brent Edwards, Columbia University (Fall 2007)
• Jason Edwards, University of York, in England (Fall 2007)
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, CUNY (Fall 2007)
• Leo Bersani, Professor Emeritus at University of California, Berkeley (Spring 2007)
• Farah Griffin, Columbia University (Spring 2007)
• Henry Turner, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Problem of More than One: Friendship, Calculation, and Political Association in The Merchant of Venice” (Fall 2006)
• Rebecca L. Walkowitz, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "Unimaginable Largeness: Kazuo Ishiguro, Translation, and the New World Literature" (Fall 2006)
• Richard Barney, University at Albany, SUNY, "The Strange Eyes of Edmund Burke: Anatomy, Sublimity, Subjectivity" (2005-2006)
• Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara, "Public Lives: England’s First Family of Writers" (2005-2006)
• Jonathan Gill Harris, "Smell of Macbeth" (2005-2006)
• David Halperin, University of Michigan, "Homosexuality's Closet" (2004-2005)
• Mihoko Suzuki, University of Miami, "Gender, the Political Subject, and Dramatic Authorship" (2004-2005)
• Frank Palmeri, University of Miami, "Autocritique of Fables" (2004-2005)
• Paul Morrison, Brandeis University, "Sunset Boulevard" (2004-2005)
• Román de la Campa, SUNY Stonybrook (Latin Americanism and postcolonial themes)
• Alan Wald, University of Michigan, "African American, Jewish American, and the Marxist Left: 1930-1960"
• Judith Halberstam, USC (gender and popular culture)
• Michael Davis, UCLA (urbanization)
• Jeffrey Masten, Northwestern University (early modern sexuality)
• Robert Stepto, Yale University (art of the Harlem Renaissance)

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