Fall 2010
“When it Makes Sense (or Not) to Claim that Sex, Gender, and the Body are Socially Constructed”
Toril Moi, James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy, and Theatre Studies, Duke University
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Lecture at 5:30pm
PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street
“The Twenty-First-Century American Novel and the Fiction of Prestige”
Gordon Hutner, Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Lecture at 5:30pm
PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Spring 2011
Humanities Lecture
“Network Theory and Plot Analysis”
Franco Moretti, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Lecture at 5pm
PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street
Humanities Seminar
Friday, January 28, 2011, 2pm
CAS 132, 725 Commonwealth Avenue
“Making Love to the Camera: Photography and the Feminization of Peking Opera (1910-1930)”
Catherine Yeh, Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Lecture at 5pm
PHO 906, 8 St. Mary’s Street