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The Richard Ellmann Lectures


Geraldine Higgins in conversation with 2024 lecturers Natasha Trethewey and Fintan O'Toole.

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, now housed in the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, began in 1988 and has welcomed authors such as Seamus Heaney, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie to Emory's campus.

Announcing Our 2026 Ellmann Lecturer