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Past Lecturers

  1. 2019

    Modes of Disruption: Literary and Visual Interventions

    Claudia Rankine

  2. 2017

    Writers and Their Fathers: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce

    Colm Tóibín

  3. 2013

    The Insomniac's Lullaby: Awake and Aware of the Time

    Paul Simon

  4. 2010

    In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

    Margaret Atwood

  5. 2008

    Confessions of a Young Novelist

    Umberto Eco

  6. 2006

    Three Masters: Cervantes, Borges, and Ortega y Gasset

    Mario Vargas Llosa

  7. 2004

    The Other Great Tradition

    Salman Rushdie

  8. 2001

    Consciousness and the Novel

    David Lodge

  9. 1999

    Fathers, Forefathers, Ancestors: The Surprising Renaissance of the British Historical Novel

    A. S. Byatt

  10. 1996

    The Art and Politics of Wole Soyinka

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

  11. 1994

    The Breaking of Style

    Helen Vendler

  12. 1990

    Being Modern Together

    Denis Donoghue

  13. 1988

    The Place of Writing

    Seamus Heaney