Readings and Lectures

LIVING WRITERS/WRITERS AT MUHLENBERG- since 1994
renowned poets and novelists participate in classes where students are reading their books plus public readings

Dannie Abse
Andrea Barrett
Charles Baxter
David Bradley,
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Wesley Brown
Frederick Busch
Robert Olen Butler
Peter Carey
Alan Cheuse
Lucille Clifton
Jim Crace
Nicholas Delbanco,
Carolyn Forche
Alice Fulton
Suzanne Gardinier
William H. Gass
Barry Hannah
Ha Jin
Yusef Komunyakaa
Chang-rae Lee
Li-Young Lee
Philip Levine
Kenny Marotta
John McGahern,
Paul Muldoon
Michael Ondaatje,
Alicia Ostriker,
Alan Michael Parker
Robert Pinsky POET LAUREATE OF THE UNITED STATES
Michael Pollan
Francine Prose
Adrienne Rich
Len Roberts
Scott Russell Sanders,
David Sedaris
Gary Snyder (co-sponsored with Center for Ethics),
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Mark Svenvold
Dovie Thomason
Helena Maria Viramontes (co-sponsored with Languages, Literatures & Cultures Department)
Susan Wheeler
Jay Wright

BROWN LECTURE SERIES an annual endowed lecture by leading scholars in English studies

2004
Jonathan Bate
University of Warwick

2003
Martha Nell Smith
University of Maryland

2002
Alan Sinfield
University of Sussex

2001
John F. Callahan
Lewis and Clark College

2000
David Kastan
Columbia University

1999
Nina Auerbach
University of Pennsylvania

1998
Michael Neill
University of Auckland

1997
Terry Hawkes
University of Cardiff

1995
Michael Bristol
McGill University

1994
Jean Howard
Columbia University

1993
Gerald Graff
University of Chicago

1992
Peter Stallybrass
University of Pennsylvania

1991
Jerome McGann
University of Virginia

1990
Harry Berger, Jr.
University of Californnia at Santa Cruz

1989
Nina Baym
University of Illinois

1988
Stanley Fish
Duke University

1987
Christopher Ricks
Boston University