Wendell Berry, an honorable member of the Graduate Services Modern Authors Collection (as well as conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, and poet), will be giving the 2011-2012 Avenali Lecture this Wednesay night (October 31st) at 4pm in Zellerbac… more »

Let your mouse clicks be heard   The undergraduate version should take ~5 minutes; the other versions are likely to take ~10-15 minutes.  The survey closes on May 31, 2012. more »

Fredric Jameson, the esteemed literary theorist and critic (as well as a man whose books have appeared on this blog many times), will be giving the 2011-2012 Avenali Lecture this Tuesday night (February 28) at 6pm at the Chevron Auditorium in the Intern… more »

Joyce Carol Oates, an esteemed member of the Graduate Services Modern Authors Collection, will be giving the 2010-2011 Avenali Lecture this Thursday night (February 10) at 6pm in the Sibley Auditorium at the Bechtel Engineering Center. This lecture is ti… more »

Renowned literary theorist and cultural critic, Terry Eagleton, will be delivering a lecture entitled, "The Death of Criticism," on April 5th at 4PM in the Maude Fife room of Wheeler Hall. You can thank the Doreen B. Towsend Center for the Humanities in… more »