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Hope College
Department of English
126 E. 10th St.
Holland, MI 49423
english@hope.edu
phone: 616.395.7620
fax: 616.395.7134
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The DeGraaf Lecture Series
About the DeGraaf Lecture:
 The
De Graaf lecture was established in 1988 in honor of Dr. Clarence De Graaf,
who was a legendary presence in the history of Hope’s English department.
We thank his daughter Ruth De Graaf Dirkse and his son-in-law Lamont Dirkse,
and the rest of Dr. De Graaf’s family for this gift. Over the years
the De Graaf lecture has brought us a procession of luminaries. It was initiated
by Thomas Werge of Notre Dame, who had been one of Dr. De Graaf’s students;
since then we have been privileged to hear from such admired scholars as
Lawrence Buell, V. A. Kolve, Jane Tompkins, Tom Shippey, Terry Eagleton,
Stephen Sumida, Ed Folsom, and Kenneth Price. More...
2013
Suresh Canagarajah, Pennsylvania State University
"English Studies as Creole Scholarship: A Postcolonial Perspective" |
2012
David S. Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center
"Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Battle for America" |
2011
Margaret Anne Doody, University of Notre Dame
"Fiction and People: Making Up and Hanging Out with Characters" |
2010
Ken Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
"Walt Whitman in the Digital Age" |
2009
Stephen Sumida, University of Washington
"The Many-Mouthed Bird of Asian American Literature in the Early Twenty-First
Century" |
2008
Terry Eagleton, University of Manchester
"The Death of Criticism?" |
2005
Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
"Walt Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass: What It Hides, What It Reveals" |
2004
Tom Shippey, St. Louis University
"From Page to Screen: Problems Tolkien Set for Jackson" |
2003
Jane Tompkins, University of Illinois at Chicago
"School as School: Professional Life as an Opportunity for Personal Growth" |
2002
V. A. Kolve, University of California, Los Angeles
"God-denying Fools: Imagining Atheism in Medieval Religious Art" |
2000
Lawrence Buell, Harvard University
"The Misery of Beasts and Humans: Environmental Justice in Literature and
Society" |
1998
Elizabeth Cross, University of Michigan
"Why I Like Serialism, or The Investigative Poetics of a Medieval, Early
American and Late 20th Century Writer" |
1994
Peter S. Hawkins, Yale Divinity School
"Naming Names: The Art of Memory and the NAMES Project AIDS Quilt" |
1991
Thomas Werge, University of Notre Dame
"America as Mystical Body: Slavery and Redemption in Lincoln, Stowe and
Twain" |
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