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Yale English Alumni Conference
English Studies: Retrospects and Prospects for the New Century
May 12 - 14, 2000

Reunion Program

Friday, May 12
Noon -
7:00 pm
Registration
Linsly-Chittenden Hall - 63 High Street
   
4:00 pm -
5:30 pm
From New Criticism to New Historicism - and After?
MODERATOR Ruth Bernard Yeazell ’71 PhD
Yale University
  Leonard Barkan '71 PhD
New York University
PANELISTS Louis Martz '39 PhD
Yale University
  Jesse Matz '89, '96 PhD
Harvard University
  Timothy Peltason '78
PhD Wellesley College
  Herbert Tucker '77 PhD
University of Virginia
   
6:00 pm President’s Reception
Home of Richard C. Levin ’74 PhD
President of Yale University
and Jane A. Levin ’75 PhD
43Hillhouse Avenue
   
7:30 pm Dinner
Sterling Memorial Library
   
Saturday, May 13
   
  9:00 –
10:30 am
What is Literature?
MODERATOR Sarah Winter ’92 PhD
Yale University
PANELISTS Ian Duncan ’89 PhD
University of Oregon
  Jonathan Freedman ’84 PhD
University of Michigan
  Esther Schor ’78, ’85 PhD
Princeton University
  Meredith Skura ’71 PhD
Rice University
   
10:30 –
11:00 am
Coffee break
   

11:00 –
12:15 pm
Roundtable discussions with current graduate students
   
12:30 –
  2:00 pm
Buffet lunch
   
2:15 –
3:45 pm
Graduate Education across the Decades: The Legacy of Yale Teachers
MODERATOR Jill Campbell ’88 PhD
Yale University
PANELISTS Marie Borroff ’56 PhD
Yale University
  Leo Braudy ’67 PhD
University of Southern California
  Maria diBattista ’73 PhD
Princeton University
  Frances Ferguson ’73 PhD
Johns Hopkins University
  Barbara Packer ’73 PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
  Ronald Paulson ’52, ’58 PhD
Johns Hopkins University
   
6:00 pm Cocktails
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
   
7:00 pm Dinner
University Commons
   
Sunday, May 14
   
  9:00 –
10:30 am
The State of the Profession
MODERATOR Richard Brodhead ’72 PhD
Yale University
PANELISTS
Charles Berger ’77 PhD
University of Utah
  Carol Christ ’70 PhD
University of California, Berkeley
  Sylvia Manning ’67 PhD
University of Illinois, Chicago
  Wendy Steiner ’74 PhD
University of Pennsylvania
   
10:45 –
noon
Farewell brunch