13 May 2009: At Oxford (UK). As is now customary,
there will be a poetry reading in the same week as Christopher
Ricks's Professor of Poetry lecture, hosted by him at Balliol
College at 8:15pm. David Ferry will read selections of his work,
and Christopher Ricks will read selections from his Oxford contemporaries.
11 May 2009: At Oxford (UK). Christopher Ricks gives his lecture,
Ghosts 3: T. S. Eliot and the Ghost of Coleridge as Oxford Professor of Poetry in the
Examination Schools (High Street) at 5 pm. For more information, please consult the
Oxford University Noticeboard.
The event is free and open to the public.
22 April 2009: The Editorial Institute is pleased to host a local meeting of the
Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC). On 22 April, at 5:00 pm, ALSC members and their friends
are invited to a discussion led by Christopher Maurer (Boston University) entitled, “Yo no soy yo”: American
Poets and the Spanish-Speaking Muse. The meeting will be held in Room 106 of 143 Bay State Road.
For questions, please contact either Alex Effgen or the ALSC.
Please RSVP no later than 20 April.
2 April 2009: At Oxford (UK). Professors Archie Burnett and Christopher Ricks will present
A. E. Housman: A Life in Letters at St John's College, Oxford, as part of the Housman Society's celebration
of the 150th anniversary of Housman's birth.
Fall 2007: The Editorial Institute and Boston University welcome
Professor Marilyn Gaull. She
will be Research Professor in the Institute, from which she will edit her journal,
The Wordsworth Circle.
May 2007: T. S. Eliot Comes Home to Boston
The Editorial Institute is pleased to announce that one of its Directors, Professor Christopher Ricks, has been
invited to prepare a full critical edition of the Poems of T. S. Eliot. The undertaking will complement
publication of Eliot’s very extensive critical writings and of his letters, which are already
being edited elsewhere.
24 May 2005: The Delegates of Oxford University Press have accepted for
publication the 11-volume Selected
Edition of the Works of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen.
8-10 April 2005: The Editorial Institute is pleased
to announce "A Massive and Rugged Intellectual Sanity," a conference on
the life and work of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen. This conference
inaugurates a Selected Edition of Stephen's major works and is made
possible by the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (see below).
For information on this conference:
2005 Stephen Conference Flyer and 2005 Conference Report
For information on the Sir James Fitzjames Stephen edition:
Proposal Summary
15 December 2003: Co-director
Christopher Ricks is one of four recipients of the 2003 Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Awards. Professor
Ricks intends to use the award to support an edition of the works
of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, and to further the Editorial Institute's
mission to train students in the theory and practice of literary
editing. For further information:
Boston
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