Past Events

Philip Fisher is Felice Crowl Reid Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University. Professor Fisher’s research interests include cultural theory, modernism, American art and its cultural institutions, the philosophy and literature of the passions, narrative theory, and game theory and the novel.

Panel Discussants: Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin (University of Washington), Susan Napier (University of Texas, Austin) and John Treat (University of Washington)

Haruki Murakami's Una's Lecture was jointly sponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages and the Center for Japanese Studies.

Avenali Lecturer Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value for the Department of English at Harvard University. Her research encompasses many topics, including 20th-century Drama; the 19th-century British novel; theories of representation; language of physical pain; and the structure of verbal and material making in art, science, and the law.

Elaine Scarry is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and General Theory of Value for the Department of English at Harvard University. Her research encompasses many topics, including 20th-century Drama; the 19th-century British novel; theories of representation; language of physical pain; and the structure of verbal and material making in art, science, and the law.

A discussion with Una's Lecturer Arlene Croce.