Clarendon Lectures

The Clarendon Lecture series is run across the University.

The next series of Clarendon Lectures at the English Faculty will be given by Professor Terry Castle, Walter A Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University, on 1, 3, 8, and 10 November 2011. You can view further details here.

She will be followed by Professor Brian Cummings, Professor of English, University of Sussex, on 30 October, and 1, 6, and 8 November 2012. You can view further details here.

Recent Clarendon Lecturers in English include:

Professor Quentin Skinner, Barber Beaumont Professor of the Humanities at Queen Mary, University of London on 'Shakespeare and Rhetorical Invention' (February 2011).

Professor James Simpson, Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English, Harvard University on 'The Iniquity of the Fathers: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition' (May 2009).

Professor Michael Wood, University of Princeton on 'Yeats and Violence' (February 2008).

David Wallace (2007).
Helen Vendler (2004).
Marina Warner (2001).
Mary Jacobus (1997).
Nguigi we Thiong'O (1996).
Seamus Deane (1995).
Jacqueline Rose (1994).
Stanley Fish (1993).
Henry Louise Gates (1992).
Margaret Atwood (1991).
Christopher Ricks (1990).
Elaine Showalter (1989).
Stephen Greenblatt (1988).
Frank Kermode (1987).