Lecture and seminar by Professor Jonathan Culler

Posted on 3 October 2013

The Department of English and Related Literature is pleased to announce a lecture and seminar by Professor Jonathan Culler (Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University).

Jonathan Culler

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.

Lecture: 'Theory of the Lyric'

6.30pm, Thursday, 10th October 2013, Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building

The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception.

Seminar: 'Lyric Structures'

4.00-6.00pm, Friday 11th October 2013, BS/008, Berrick Saul Building

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