Literature Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series

	Thursday, May 14, 2009 Shawn Michelle Smith Associate Professor of Visual and Critical Studies School of the Arts Institute of Chicago The Politics of Pictorialism: Another Look at F. Holland Day

	Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Thomas E. Lewis Professor and Chair of the Spanish and Portuguese Department at University of Iowa Liquid Reference: Empathy, Cognition, and Fiction under Capitalism

	May 25, 2006 Carol Becker (PhD in English and American Literature, 1975) Dean of Faculty and Senior Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs The School of the Art Institute of Chicago "Gandhi's Body and Further Representations of War and Peace"

	May 24, 2005 Frances Smith Foster (PhD in English and American Literature, 1976) Charles Howard Candler Professor of English and Women’s Studies Emory University "(African American) Love and Marriage in the Time of Slavery"

	November 13, 2003 June Howard (PhD in Literature, 1979) Professor of English, American Culture, and Women's Studies Associate Dean, Rackham School of Graduate Studies University of Michigan "Local Knowledge or Book-Learning? Placing the Teacher in American Regionalism and American Studies"

	May 8, 2002 Marc Zimmerman (PhD in Comparative Literature, 1975) Professor of Latin American Studies University of Illinois at Chicago and Director of the Chicago Latin American/Latino/a Activities and Studies Arena (LACASA CHICAGO) “Transnational Memories: Deconstructing a Nomad Intellectual on Latin American/Latino/a Turf”

	May 31, 2001 Kathleen Woodward (PhD in English and American Literature, 1976) Professor of English and Director, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities University of Washington "Calculating Compassion"