Theory of the Lyric

Jonathan Culler is Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Cornell University

Modern School public lecture, but Jonathan Culler's research interests encompass the Early Modern. Click here for more details

Professor Culler will also give a Research Seminar tomorrow, entitled Lyric Structures

Jonathan Culler, Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University. A Harvard alumnus, Rhodes Scholar (St. John’s College, Oxford) and former Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford, and Selwyn College, Cambridge, Professor Culler has written widely influential and field-defining work in the areas of literary criticism and theory, including Structuralist Poetics  (1975, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association of America, 1976),  On Deconstruction (1982), Roland Barthes (1983), Framing the Sign (1988) and The Literary in Theory (2007). His lecture and seminar are based on his eagerly awaited forthcoming work on the theory of the lyric.

Professor Culler’s visit was made possible in part by generous grants from CREMS, CECS and the Leavis Fund. Their support is hereby gratefully acknowledged.