June 21, 2023
Ryan Chapman and Meera Subramanian
Co-Sponsored with the School of Letters
April 12, 2023
Lauryl Tucker, Matthew Mitchell, The Rev. Rob MacSwain
Celebrating Faculty Publications
April 3, 2023
Edible Books Festival
February 9, 2023
Dr. Robin R. Bates, Professor Emeritus of English
The Significance of Card Playing in Jane Austen
November 2, 2022
Fifth Annual Tom Watson Memorial Event
David Payne and Gregory Williams Welsch
An Evening with Lewis & Tolkien
September 21, 2022
Dr. David Haskell, Biology
Sounds Wild and Broken
June 29, 2022
Jamie Quatro, Nickole Brown, Allen Reddick
Readings from School of Letters Faculty
Co-sponsored by the School of Letters
February 5, 2020
Collin Cornell, Melody Lehn, Shana Minkin, Jennifer Michael, Sean O'Rourke, Greg Pond
Celebrating Faculty Publications
November 13, 2019
Fourth Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Dr. John Grammer, Professor of English
Why Study the South? Southern Studies in the 21st Century
September 16, 2019
Dr. Bil Bass, Founder of the UTK Body Farm
Case Studies from the Body Farm
June 12, 2019
Meera Subramanian, Author
Reading and Conversation - A River Runs Again: India's Natural World in Crisis
May 1, 2019
Rob Bachman, Julia Gatta, Pradip Malde, Stephanie McCarter, Amy Patterson
Celebrating Faculty Publications
April 1, 2019
Edible Books Festival
January 30, 2019
Sewanee Review Staff
The Sewanee Review and the Future of Literary Magazines
November 1, 2018
Third Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Dr. Beth Rushing, President of the Appalachian College Association
Transformative Collaboration: the Appalachian College Association and the Bowen Central Library of Appalachia
October 2, 2018
David B. Coe
Imagination as Mirror: What Speculative Fiction Can Teach Us About Our World
June 13, 2018
Maha Jafri
Reading for Pleasure, Reading for Spite: Gossip and Victorian Literature
Co-Sponsored with the School of Letters
April 18, 2018
W. Brown Patterson, William Engel,
Susan Ridyard, J. Ross MacDonald
The Art of Memory and the New History in Early Modern England
February 13, 2018
Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins Reads and Discusses His Poems
November 7, 2017
Second Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Rev. Dr. Robert MacSwain
Rational and Imaginative Persuasion: The Ambiguous Achievement of C.S. Lewis
October 3, 2017
Steve Suitts
Justice Hugo Black as a Young Southern Advocate for Social Justice
September 21, 2017
Vicki Sells, Associate Provost for LITS
The New Learning Commons
July 5, 2017
Alana Levinson-LaBrosse
Translations of Kurdish Poetry
Co-sponsored with the School of Letters
February 21, 2017
Erin McGraw, Fiction Author
Storytelling: It's not what you think it is
November 30, 2016
Bob Benson, Professor Emeritus of English
Wedding the Wild Particular
September 21, 2016
First Annual Tom Watson Memorial Lecture
Chris Nugent, Warren Wilson College
Remembering, Reflecting, Reckoning:
German Women and the Long Shadow of
National Socialism
June 8, 2016
Ed Tarkington
Author of Only Love Can Break Your Heart
Co-sponsored with School of Letters
March 31, 2016
Matt Reynolds
Making Space: Cartographic Selections
from University Archives and Special
Collections
February 15, 2016
John Jeremiah Sullivan
Boys to Men and Back Again
November 13, 2015
Dr. Jerry Smith
Excavation of Rebels' Rest
February 27, 2015
The Perkins Symposium: William Perkins and Elizabethan England
Dr. Brown Patterson, Dr. Benjamin King, Dr. Ross McDonald, Dr. Jim Turrell
February 3, 2015
Dr. Pat Kelley, Professor Emeritus, Religion
A Modest Proposal on Bonhoeffer and Biography
December 4, 2014
DebbieLee Landi, Director of University Archives and Special Collections
Special Collections: For the Love of Books
October 17, 2014
Dr. Samuel R. Williamson, 14th Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South and Professor of History Emeritus
The Start of the First World War: What Happened and Why It Still Matters
Co-Sponsored with Finding Your Place
September 4, 2014
Jeanne Marie Warzeski, Curator of the North Carolina Museum of History
Windows into Heaven: Russian Iconography
June 18, 2014
David Mickics, Critic
Slow Reading in a Hurried Age
April 24, 2014
Dr. William S. Stoney, C'52, Cardiac Surgeon
Medical Schools Through the Years
January 30, 2014
Dr. Martin Knoll, Professor in Forestry and Geology
Sewanee's Baltic Amber Insect Collection
November 4, 2013
Minton Sparks, Poet, performance artist, novelist, teacher, and essayist
Southern Storytelling
October 3, 2013
Rachel Hildebrandt, Guest Curator
Home Front, War Front: Sewanee and Ft. Ogelthorpe in World War I
September 8, 2013
Sarah C. Sherwood and Jan F. Simek
The Sky Above, the Mud Below: Prehistoric Rock Art in the Southeast
Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthrolopology
June 19, 2013
Richard Tillinghast
"Readings from Poetry and Istanbul Travel Book"
Co-sponsored with the School of Letters
April 22, 2013
Patrick Dean
"Hudson Stuck: 100 Year Anniversary of the Ascent of Denali"
Co-sponsored with the Sewanee Outing Program, John Benson.
February 28, 2013
Marvin Pate, Rich Berlin, Michael Thompson
"Sustainability Initiatives in Sewanee"
January 31, 2013
Rayid Ghani, Chief Scientist for the Obama Campaign
"The Role of Data, Technology, and Analytics in the Presidential Elections"
Co-sponsored with the Math and Computer Science and Economics Departments, Sherwood Ebey Lecture.
November 28, 2012
Kevin Wilson, Assistant Professor in the Department of English
"The Family Fang and Readings from a Work in Progress"
October 24, 2012
John Tilford, Curator of Special Collections; Betsy
Grant, Head of Acquisitions and Cataloging; and Rick Sommer
"The Rick and Wilma Sommer Special Collection"
March 29, 2012
Dr. John McCardell, Jr., Vice-Chancellor and President
"The Library of the Future"
February 29, 2012
Richard Tillinghast, Poet
"Readings from Poetry"
January 26, 2012
Jane Borden, Author
"I Totally Meant to do That"
November 17, 2011
W. Brown Patterson, Professer Emeritus of History
"The History of the King James Bible: 400 Years."
October 3, 2011
Sharyn McCrumb, Award Winning Southern Author
"The Ballad Books and Southern Culture"
March 8, 2010
Thomas Lakeman, Tennessee Williams Playwright in Residence
“The Movies of Alfred Hitchcock”
April 24, 2009
Thomas Keith, Consulting Editor at New Directions
“Publishing Tennessee Williams, New Directions, and James Laughlin”
February 13, 2009
Harry Lee (Hal) Poe, President of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum and Foundation of Richmond, Virginia
“Eureka: Poe’s Journey of Discovery”
November 19, 2008
Sarah Sherwood, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of the South
“Archeological Research at the Bronze Age Site of Pecia in Romania”
October 29, 2008
Thomas S. Freeman, Researcher for the British Academy John Foxe Project
“New Views of ‘Bloody Mary’ and the Tudor Counter-Reformation”
October 22, 2008
Derek Waller, Retired Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
“A North Korean Birthday Party”
April 16, 2008
James C. Davidheiser, Professor of German, University of the South
“And They Lived Happily Ever After: The Brothers Grimm and Their Phenomenally Successful Fairy Tales”
April 11, 2007
Donald Huber, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Languages, University of the South
Reading from Kick Butt, Huber’s humorous novel about a Southeastern Conference college football season.
October 18, 2006
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Historian and Sewanee Alumnus, C’53, H’85
“Who Owns the Dead? T.E. Lawrence of Arabia and his Disputed Reputation”
September 27, 2006
Robert Benson, Professor of English, University of the South
Reading from Blood and Memory, a memoir
April 19, 2006
Anthony Abbott, author, critic, literary historian and Professor of English at Davidson College
Readings from his own poetry & prose
February 8, 2006
Robb White, humorist, naturalist and author of How To Build A Tin Canoe
“Old-Time Naturalists”
December 8, 2005
Ninette Fahmy, Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University and specialist in Egyptian politics
“Women and Human Rights in Egypt”
October 3, 2005
Calhoun Winton, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Maryland
“The History of Scottish Books in the Colonial South”
March 23, 2005
John Gatta, Brown Foundation Fellow at the University and former Professor of English at the University of Connecticut
“Harriet Beecher Stowe, a Southern Episcopalian?”
February 16, 2005
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Florida
“Honor and the Tragedy of Assassinations: Julius Caesar and Abraham Lincoln”
December 1, 2004
Annie Armour, University Archivist, and Tam Carlson, Professor of English at the University
“The Present and Future State of the New Archives”
(a joint meeting with the Sewanee Historic Preservation Society, held at the newly renovated Kappa Sigma House)
October 27, 2004
Todd Kelley, University Librarian
“Plans and Goals for the duPont Library”
April 17, 2004
William “Woody” Register, Professor of History and American Studies at the University
“The Biggest Playground on Earth: Luna Park at Coney Island”
March 31, 2004
Paul Bergeron, Emeritus Professor of History, University of Tennessee and Brown Foundation Fellow at the University
“Andrew Johnson of Tennessee and His Presidency”
March 10, 2004
George Core, Editor of The Sewanee Review
“George Garrett As A Man Of Letters”
October 6, 2003
Jon Meacham, Managing Editor of Newsweek and author of Franklin and Winston
“The Discovery of the Private Letters of FDR’s Great Love, Lucy Rutherford”
April 22, 2003
Gerald Smith, Professor of Religion at the University
“What We Can Learn From Cemeteries”
March 26, 2003
Samuel Williamson, retired Vice-Chancellor and President of the University
“Higher Education and the Vietnam War”
November 20, 2002
Michael Bradley, Professor of History, Motlow State Community College
“It Happened Here in the Civil War”
October 31, 2002
Malcolm Goldstein, Emeritus Professor of English, City University of New York
“Thornton Wilder’s Novels, Heaven’s My Destiny and The Eighth Day”
April 17, 2002
Edwin M. Yoder, Jr., syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist
“Admitted Fiction: From Journalist to Writer of Fiction”
February 19, 2002
Milbury Polk, author of Women of Discovery
“Writing His Book”
December 11, 2001
Jam Yang Norbu, Tibetan novelist
“Tibetan Politics and the Great Game”
November 28, 2001
Joel Cunningham, Vice-Chancellor and President of the University
“Reflections on My First Year at Sewanee”
October 19, 2001
James Waring McCrady, Emeritus Professor of French at the University
“Russian Icons”
April 19, 2001
Charles B. Lowry, Dean of Libraries, University of Maryland
“Libraries in An Age of Change: Timeless Purpose and Scholarship”
November 15, 2000
Richard Henderson, Associate Provost for Information Services at the University
“Recent Developments in Information Technology”
November 18, 1999
Henry Taylor, Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
Readings from his own works
April 21, 1999
Edmund Ball, author of Slaves in the Family
(topic unknown)
December 9, 1998
Annie Armour, University Archivist
“Hudson Stuck"
October 14, 1998
Lyle Leverich, Scholar-in-Residence, Head of the Editorial Board, Tennessee Williams Literary Journal, and biographer of Williams
“Remembrances of Tennessee Williams”
December 4, 1997
Charles Cullen, President and Librarian of the Newberry Library, Chicago
“The History and Mission of the Newberry Library and the Special Role of Research Libraries”
April 25, 1997
William T. Cocke III, Professor of English at the University
“Shakespeare’s Indispensable Book”
February 27, 1997
James Dunkly, School of Theology Librarian, and Annie Armour, University Archivist, gave a tour of the rare book area and spoke about some of the more interesting items in the collection.
(There were no FOL lectures in 1996)
November 4, 1995
Garret Keizer, Chair of the Department of English, Lake Region Union High School in Vermont and author of A Dresser of Sycamore Trees
“The Books That Change Our Lives?”
April 29, 1995
Rebecca Bain, Public Affairs Director at WPLN, Nashville Public Radio
(Topic unknown)
April 20, 1995
Paul Erwin, Regional Director of the East Tennessee Region, Department of Health
“Public Health in East Tennessee: Towards Healthier Communities in Appalachia”
November 12, 1994
David M. Seaman, Coordinator of Electronic Texts, University of Virginia Library
“The University of Virginia Digital Library Project”
April 21, 1994
Billy F. Bryant, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, Vanderbilt University
“Sir Isaac Newton: His Life and Work”
November 13, 1993
Steven Shrader, Associate Professor of Music at the University and Director of the University Orchestra and Sewanee Chorale
“Literature and Music”
April 27, 1993
John Egerton, author and free-lance writer
“The End of the Print Age”
November 12, 1992
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Professor of History, University of Florida
“The House of Percy: Honor, Mind and Melancholy in a Southern Family”
April 4, 1992
Benjamin Dunlap, Carolina Research Professor, University of South Carolina
“Fiction to Film: Ashes on the Screen”
November 21, 1991
Reed Whittemore, Poet and Brown Foundation Fellow at the University
Readings from his poetry
April 20, 1991
Elizabeth N. Chitty, Associate Historiographer of the University
“Tales from Sewanee’s Attic”
November 10, 1990
Malcolm Getz, Director of the Heard Library, Vanderbilt University, and Associate Provost for Information Services and Technology
“The Electronic Library”
April 21, 1990
Wyatt Prunty, Poet, Literary Critic, Professor of English and Director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference at the University of the South
Readings from his own books of poetry
November 11, 1989
George Connor, Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
“Some Notes on Overstuffed Biographies”
April 15, 1989
Nelson Campbell Sudderth, College Admissions Counselor at the Baylor School
“The Writings of Biography”, Using Ann Waldron’s book, Close Connections: Carolina Gordon and the Southern Renaissance
November 12, 1988
Walter Harrelson, Professor of Old Testament and Dean at Vanderbilt Divinity School and an authority on translations of the Bible
“The Difficulties of Biblical Translation”
April 9, 1988
Walter Sullivan, author and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University
“Shaping the Literary Canon: A Modest Defense of the Classics”
November 14, 1987
Robert Wyatt, Book Editor of the Nashville Tennessean and Professor of Mass Communications at Middle Tennessee State University
“Reviewers and Reviewing in the Mass Media: Research and Ruminations”
May 2, 1987
Kenneth S. Cooper, author and Emeritus Professor of History at George Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
“Booby Traps for Textbook Authors”
November 15, 1986
Steven John Ross, noted filmmaker and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Memphis State University
A showing of the film of Peter Taylor’s “The Old Forest”
April 19, 1986
Glynne Wickham, Brown Foundation Fellow in Speech and Drama and an authority on the English theatre
“William Shakespeare, King’s Man: The Page and His Patron”
November 23, 1985
Jim Wayne Miller, Poet, Appalachian writer, and Professor of German at Western Kentucky University
Reading from his work in progress
April 13, 1985
Ellen Douglas, novelist and National Book Award nominee
Reading from her work in progress, Scenes from Two Lives
November 19, 1984
Viewing of items from Bishop Gailor’s Library and architectural books, presented by the father of Vice-Chancellor Bob Ayres
November 17, 1984
Will Campbell, Raconteur and award-winning author
“Words, and How We Use Them”
April 28, 1984
Alan Cheuse, Brown Foundation Fellow and Visiting Professor of English
“A New Jersey Writer In Dixie”
November 19, 1983
Andrew Lytle
Readings from his book, Jericho, Jericho, Jericho
April 23, 1983
Thaddeus Lockard, Emeritus Professor of German at the University
“The Inklings: C. S. Lewis and His Circle”
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