The Robert C. Elliott Memorial Lecture Series
The Elliott Memorial Lecture is presented annually by the UCSD Department of Literature, with the support of the Robert C. Elliott Memorial Fund, which was established at the time of Professor Elliott's death in April of 1981. A founding member of the Department of Literature, Professor Elliott authored The Power of Satire (1968), The Shape of Utopia (1970), and The Literary Persona (1982).Lauren Berlant
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May 16, 2019 Lauren Berlant is George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor of English at the University of Chicago "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World (Living with Ellipsis)" |
Dudley Andrew
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November 8, 2017 Dudley Andrew is R. Selden Professor of Film and Comparative Literature at Yale University. "Jean Renoir and the Writers in his Father's Circle" |
Gordon Hutner
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January 24, 2017 Gordon Hutner is Professor of English at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. "The 21st Century U.S Novel: An Anatomy" |
Lisa Lowe
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May 26, 2015 Lisa Lowe is Professor of English and American Studies at Tufts University, and a member of the consortium of studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora. "A Fetishism of Colonial Commodities" |
Barbara Foley
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February 20, 2014 Barbara Foley is Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University, Newark Campus. "Biography and the Political Unconscious" |
John Beverley
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May 14, 2013 John Beverley is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Language and Literature at the University of Pittsburgh. "The Literary Humanities and the Promise of Equality" |
David Der-Wei Wang
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April 19, 2012 David Der-wei Wang is Edward C. Henderson Professor in Chinese Literature, Harvard University, Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies, and Academician, Academia Sinica. "Reinventing the Lyrical: the Making of Chinese Literary Modernity" |
Cherrie Moraga
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May 10, 2010 Cherríe L. Moraga is playwright, poet, and essayist whose plays and publications have received national recognition. "A Small Nation of Remember: On the Road to Xicana Consciencia" |
Christopher Newfield
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May 10, 2010 Professor of English, UC Santa Barbara Former Chair, UC Academic Senate Planning and Budget Committee "The End of the Public University - and the Beginning of the Next" |
Mary Louise Pratt
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October 19, 2006 Silver Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures NYU "Migrancy, Empire and the Politics of Language: Toward a Geolinguistic Imagination" |
Carlo Ginzburg
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May 8, 2006 Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies UCLA "Learning from the Enemy: On the French Prehistory of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion" |
Amy Kaplan
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April 28, 2005 Graduate Chair, Department of English University of Pennsylvania "Where is Guantánamo?" |
Michael Denning
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May 13, 2004 William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American Studies and English Yale University "The Rhetoric of Class in the Era of Globalization" |
Judith Butler
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April 29, 2003 Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature UC Berkeley "Precarious Life" |
David Harvey
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May 17, 2001 Professor, The Graduate Center City University of New York "The Art of Rent: Globalization and the Commodification of Culture" |
Mike Davis
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May 23, 2000 Department of History SUNY Stony Brook "Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. Big City" |
Jean Franco
| May 13, 1999 Columbia University “Latin American Culture and the Cold War” |
Hazel Carby
| November 20, 1997 Yale University “Body and Soul: Paul Robeson and the Modernist Aesthetic” |
Alexander Cockburn
| May 6, 1992 Journalist “Workers and Nations in Capital’s World" |
Richard Falk
| April 30, 1991 Princeton University “Bush’s ‘New World Order’ vs. A Better World” |
Henry Louis Gates
| April 23, 1990 “On Transforming the American Mind: Race and The Canon” |
Isabel Allende
| April 13, 1989 “The Voice of a Latin American Writer” |
Stephen J. Gould
| February 18, 1988 Harvard University (no title) |
Edward Said
| May 19, 1987 Columbia University “Culture and Imperialism” |
Ian P. Watt
| April 16, 1986 Stanford University “The First Myth of Modern Individualism: Faust” |
Fredric Jameson
| January 24, 2017 April 17, 1985 UC Santa Cruz “World Literature in the Era of Late Capitalism” |
Iris Murdoch
| April 19, 1984 “The Novel” |
Denis Donoghue
| April 6, 1983 NYU “Ideas and How to Escape from Them” |
Ursula K. LeGuin
| April 21, 1982 Author Author “A Non-Euclidian View of California as a Cold Place To Be” |
