Alexander Nemerov, the 2024-25 Una's Lecturer, is joined in conversation by UC Berkeley professor of English Elisa Tamarkin.

Nemerov is an art historian and the author of many books including his most recent, The Forest: A Fable of America in the 1830s (Princeton, 2023), which has been called by the novelist Annie Proulx “one of the richest books ever to come my way — deeply beautiful . . . astonishingly tender . . . singular and moving.” Nemerov is the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities at Stanford University, where The Stanford Daily named him one of the university’s top ten professors.

Tamarkin is a scholar of American literature and topics in 18th- and 19th-century intellectual history, philosophy, and art. She is the author of Apropos of Something: A History of Irrelevance and Relevance (2022).