The Department Lecture Series brings prominent scholars to speak from their current research on a topic of broad interest in English studies. The audience for the series includes the whole department, as well as interested parties from across the Yale community.
2020-2021
2019-2020
Kirsten Silva Gruesz (postponed)
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
James Shapiro
Deidre Shauna Lynch
Carolyn Dinshaw
Anne Anlin Cheng
Ramon Saldivar
2015-2016
Stephen Best
Nicholas Dames
Heather Love
Ursula Heise
Rita Copeland
Sarah Beckwith
D. A. Miller
2014-2015
Tom Wolfe
Susan Choi
Ruth Ozeki
Terry Tempest Williams
2013-2014
Charles Bernstein
Michael Bérubé
Katherine Hayles
Victoria Kahn
2012-2013
Frances Ferguson
Lauren Berlant
Anthony Grafton
James English
David Simpson
2011-2012
Ato Quayson
Stanley Fish
Simon Jarvis
Yopie Prins
Bill Brown
Marjorie Garber
2010-2011
John Guillory
Stephen Greenblatt
Seth Lerer
Sharon Cameron
Rita Felski
Kenneth Warren
Leah Price
Marjorie Garber
2009-2010
Alan Liu
Jerome Christensen
Leela Gandhi
Srinivas Aravamudan
Franco Moretti
Ania Loomba
Terry Castle