Literature Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

	Thursday, October 18, 2018 Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Colorado, Boulder Break on through to the Animal Side (Bailly and Latour)

	Thursday, April 13, 2017 Don Wayne Professor Emeritus Historical and Formal Aspects of Professional Culture, and the [Sometime] Failures of Liberal Elites: The Case of the Humanities

	Thursday, November 13, 2014 Neda Atanasoski Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz Humanitarian Violence: Postsocialism and the Question of Transitional Justice

	Thursday, November 7, 2013 Eric Cazdyn Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto The Act and the Whistleblower

	Monday, May 20, 2013 Jennifer Tuttle Professor of English and the Dorothy M. Healy Chair in Literature and Health at the University of New England in Maine Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the US West

	Thursday, May 14, 2009 Shawn Michelle Smith Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Arts Institute of Chicago The Politics of Pictorialism: Another Look at F. Holland Day

	Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Thomas E. Lewis Professor and Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at University of Iowa Liquid Reference: Empathy, Cognition, and Fiction under Capitalism

	May 25, 2006 Carol Becker (PhD in English and American Literature, 1975) Dean of Faculty and Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs The School of the Art Institute of Chicago "Gandhi's Body and Further Representations of War and Peace"

	May 24, 2005 Frances Smith Foster (PhD in English and American Literature, 1976) Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women's Studies Emory University "(African American) Love and Marriage in the Time of Slavery"

	November 13, 2003 June Howard (PhD in Literature, 1979) Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies University of Michigan "Local Knowledge or Book-Learning? Placing the Teacher in American Regionalism and American Studies"

	May 8, 2002 Marc Zimmerman (PhD in Comparative Literature, 1975) Professor of Latin American Studies University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Chicago Latin American/Latino/a Activities and Studies Arena (LACASA CHICAGO) "Transnational Memories: Deconstructing a Nomad Intellectual on Latin American/Latino/a Turf"

	May 31, 2001 Kathleen Woodward (PhD in English and American Literature, 1976) Professor of English and Director, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities University of Washington "Calculating Compassion"

Literature Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

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