John O. 沃勒 Lectureship on the Arts
约翰O. 沃勒 Lectureship on the Arts is sponsored by the English Department in honor of late professor John O. 沃勒.
Dr. 沃勒, a very notable and influential Adventist English professor, was a member of the Department of English from 1960 to 1987 and chair from 1963 to 1979.
Dr. 沃勒 was a specialist in the Victorian period and his book, A Circle of Friends: The Tennysons and the Lushingtons of Park House, was published by Ohio State University Press in 1986.
John O. 沃勒 Lectureship presenters include:
- 2008 William S. Peterson, University of Maryland, "William Morris's Pocket Cathedral: The Kelmscott Press Chaucer"
- 2009 Roger Jerome, Charles Dickens Impersonator, "An Audience With Boz"
- 2010 Donette Francis, Binghamton University SUNY, "What's Left to Imagine: Writing Female Citizenship in the Caribbean Antiromance"
- 2011 Dave Smith, Southern Adventist University, "Henry Thoreau: A Sauntering Life"
- 2012 Peter Holland, Notre Dame University, "Haunting Shakespeare or King Lear Meets Alice"
- 2013 Regina Schwartz, Northwestern University, "The Mass and the Theater: Othello and Sacrifice"
- 2014 Nancy Johnson, Western Washington University
- 2015 Allyson Jule, Trinity Western University, "Speaking in silences: Why saying nothing can ruin a perfectly good education"
- 2016 Valerie Lee, The Ohio State University, "Neo-Slave Narratives: #SlaveLivesMatter"
- 2017 Kenneth Wright & Brady Greer Huffman, “Freud’s Last Session"
- 2018 (Post poned to Spring 2019)
- 2019 Gregory Laski, "Frederick Douglass' Peace Theory: Race, Revenge, and Justice after the Civil War”(春季)
- 2019 Ramona Hyman, “Montgomery 55 on My Mind: Success Lessons from the Boycott"
- 2020 Marilyn McEntry, "Speaking Peace in a Climate of Conflict"
- 2021 Professor Harris, "Maternal Fury: Women's collective rage at state violence, from the middle ages to the movements for black lives"
- 2022 Louise Geddes, Adelphi University, "How the Musical Became Meta"
- 2023 Craig van Rooye, "Shame Healing: Poetry and Incarnation"
Contact person: Scott Moncrieff, moncrief@sqzdhyb.com
Photo: Regina Schwartz presents at the 2013 lectureship