Drake Lecture Series

About the Drake Lecture Series

The annual Robert and Lillian Drake Lecture Series is named for Robert and Lillian Drake.

Every April, the English Department hosts a Drake Scholar for a week of Seminars, Workshops, and a Public Lecture.

Past Lectures

• Professor Grant Farred, Cornell University: “Monstrous Hands: Thinking Martin Heidegger” (2022)
• Professor Elisa Tamarkin, University of California – Berkeley: “Resurrection and Reconstruction” (2022)
• Professor Cannon Schmitt, University of Toronto: “Literal Reading; or, How to Be Taken in Everything” (2019)
• Professor Ros Ballaster, University of Oxford: “Being There: The Fiction of the Presense in 18th Century British Theatre & Novels” (2018)
• Professor Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University: “Weak Network: Melville, C.L.R. James, Frank Stella” (2015)
• Professor Tiffany Stern, University of Oxford: “Such Place, Such Men, Such Language And Such Ware”: The Theatre of London’s Fairs (2014)