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English

Awards & Events

The Hausman Lecture Series

The English Department is happy to sponsor the annual Hausman Lecture, which brings an award-winning author to read on campus each fall. This event is generously funded by Richard and Edna Hausman. 

 

HAUSMAN LECTURES 1982-2013

 

2013 Diane Ackerman

2012 Amy Tan

2011 Robert Hass  

2010 Amy Bloom    

2009 Yusef Komunyakaa    

2008 Naomi Shihab Nye    

2007 Barry Lopez

2006 David Foster Wallace

2005 Frank McCourt

2004 Ellen Gillchrist  

2003 Billy Collins  

2002 Michael Ondaatje

2001 Robert Pinsky

2000 Ama Ata Aidoo

1999 Charles Simic

1998 Anna Quindlen

1997 William Styron

1996 Robert Pack    

1995 Maya Angelou    

1994 Joyce Carol Oates    

1993 William Snodgrass    

1992 Mary Gordon

1991 John Edgar Wideman

1990 Stanley Kunitz

1989 Gwendolyn Brooks

1988 John Barth

1987 E. L. Doctorow

1986 Czeslaw Milosz

1985 Denise Levertov

1984 I. B. Singer

1983 Jorges Luis Borges

1982 Paul Theroux

 

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2013 Hausman Lecture: Diane Ackerman
Poet, essayist, and naturalist, Diane Ackerman is the author of two dozen highly acclaimed works of nonfiction and poetry, including the bestselling A Natural History of the Senses.  Her most recent book, the memoir One Hundred Names for Love, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Books for a Better Life Award.  It tells the story of Ackerman's work to bring her husband back from the depths of aphasia after he suffered a terrible stroke.
 
On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Diane Ackerman gave a reading, took questions and signed copies of her books.