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Past Lecturers

  1. 2024

    Writing Lives

    Natasha Trethewey and Fintan O'Toole

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  2. 2019

    Modes of Disruption: Literary and Visual Interventions

    Claudia Rankine

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  3. 2017

    Writers and Their Fathers: Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce

    Colm Tóibín

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  4. 2013

    The Insomniac's Lullaby: Awake and Aware of the Time

    Paul Simon

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  5. 2010

    In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

    Margaret Atwood

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  6. 2008

    Confessions of a Young Novelist

    Umberto Eco

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  7. 2006

    Three Masters: Cervantes, Borges, and Ortega y Gasset

    Mario Vargas Llosa

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  8. 2004

    The Other Great Tradition

    Salman Rushdie

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  9. 2001

    Consciousness and the Novel

    David Lodge

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  10. 1999

    Fathers, Forefathers, Ancestors: The Surprising Renaissance of the British Historical Novel

    A. S. Byatt

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  11. 1996

    The Art and Politics of Wole Soyinka

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

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  12. 1994

    The Breaking of Style

    Helen Vendler

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  13. 1990

    Being Modern Together

    Denis Donoghue

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  14. 1988

    The Place of Writing

    Seamus Heaney

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    Chosen by Richard Ellmann himself, Seamus Heaney gave the inaugural lectures at Emory University in 1988.