2020-2021
April 9, 2021: David Perry (columnist for Pacific Standard Magazine and freelance journalist)
2017-2018
January 28, 2018: Nick Howe (Williams College)
March 13, 2018: Shiloh Krupar (Georgetown University)
April 19, 2018: Carolyn Finney (University of Kentucky)
2016-2017
October 23, 2016: Carlo Rotella (Boston College)
March 23, 2017: Greg Grandin (previously at New York University, now at Yale University)
May 13, 2017: invited speakers for the Conference on Creative Academic Writing
2014-2015
October 2, 2014: Andrea Wulf (full-time writer)
October 22, 2014: Sarah Knott (Indiana University Bloomington)
October 26, 2014: Ari Kelman (University of California Davis)
February 25, 2015: Jenny Price (public writer and historian)
April 10, 2015: Marci Shore (Yale University)
April 23, 2015: Rebecca Onion (editor of the Slate magazine history blog “The Vault”)
2012-2013
March 12, 2013: John Demos (Yale University)
March 26, 2013: Kristen Neuschel (Duke University)
April 12, 2013: Carl Lee and Dorothea Braemer (filmmakers)
2011-2012
November 9, 2011: Jonathan Holloway (previously at Yale University, now at Northwestern University)
2010-2011
November 18, 2010: Amy Reading (independent scholar)
2009-2010
November 13, 2009: Martha Hodes (New York University)
November 20, 2009: James Goodman (Rutgers University)
December 4, 2009: Sandy Zipp (Brown University)
March 31, 2010: Brian Hall (local author)
2008-2009
March 6, 2009: Amy Reading (independent scholar)
April 16-17, 2009: John Demos (Yale University)