The Fall Lecture Series aimed to introduce non-academic readers to a range of literature. We hosted graduate students from the University of Chicago, Yale, Harvard, Notre Dame, Boston University, Boston College, and Indiana University Bloomington who delivered introductory lectures on a variety of topics from classical mythology and Old English riddles to contemporary poetry and fiction.

Fall Schedule

September 18 - Adam Walker (Harvard) "Structure in Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind'"

September 25 - Johanna Alden (Boston College) "Reading Old English Riddles"

October 2 - Ally Stapleton (Yale) "Approaching Anne Carson's Poetic Paradoxes”

October 9 - Stephanie Montalti (St. John's University) "Walter Crane’s Picture Book Experimentations"

October 16 - Margaret Kearney (Yale) "Louise Erdrich’s Justice Trilogy"

October 23 - Kara McCabe (Tufts) "Witches in Early Modern Drama"

October 30 - Jordan Green (Tufts) "Were the Romantics Obsessed with the Dark and Spooky?"

November 6 - Holly Wiegand (Boston University) “The Rhetorics of Women’s Faith and Activism in the 19th Century"

November 13 - Cynthia Schmidt (St. John's University) “A Chorus of Mythologized Women"

November 20 - Julia Rossi (University of Chicago) "William Morris and Victorian Medievalism”

November 27 - Joshua Rawleigh (Indiana Bloomington) "Grieving with Tennyson"

December 4 - Abigail Rawleigh (Notre Dame) “Reading Poetry with the Puritans”