Guest Speakers

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)