Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture
The Richard M. Summers Memorial Lecture is made possible by an endowment fund established by Mrs. Marie Summers to honor her son, a member of the Department of English from 1966 until his death on November 5, 1988. Since 1990, it has annually brought to campus a distinguished writer, literary scholar, or critic to speak on literature or its relationship to language, culture, or art.
PAST SPEAKERS
- Cleanth Brooks
- Barbara Kiefer Lewalski
- Wayne C. Booth
- Houston A. Baker, Jr.
- Ann Beattie
- Edward W. Said
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Jerome McGann
- Stanley E. Fish
- Robert Pinsky
- William Labov
- Edward Albee
- Marjorie Perloff
- Nikki Giovanni
- Tom Robbins
- David Bevington
- John McWhorter
- Sharon Olds
- Michael Bérubé
- K. David Harrison
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Wai Chee Dimock
- George Saunders
- Vijay Prashad
- Carolyn Williams
- Danzy Senna
- Roland Greene
- Elaine Treharne
- Lorgia García Peña
- Ania Loomba