Indiana State University: More. From day one.

The Joseph S. Schick Lectures

In Language, Literature and Lexicography

Joseph S. SchickThanks to a generous bequest from Joseph S. Schick, Professor Emeritus of English at Indiana State University, the Department of English is able to host the Joseph S. Schick Lectures in Language, Literature, and Lexicography. According to the conditions of Professor Schick's will, "Eminent scholars . . . will be invited to present lectures on the literature, language and lexicography of the United States . . . and Great Britain. The topics of the lectures will be limited to the period before 1900."

Multi-Purpose Joseph S. Schick Reception Room

Schick Room ProgressAfter a number of delays, frustrations with furniture delivery, and carpeting that arrived long before the room was ready, the Joseph S. Schick Reception Room has been opened. The room has seen duty as a reception area after the Schick Lectures, hosted the Department holiday party, and hosts the Pfennig Scholars receptions. Please come and join us at any of the Schick lectures and enjoy the comfort of the reception room.

An Overview

Beginning in 1988, the Department has hosted from four to eight Schick Lecturers a year. Scholars from around the United States--and from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales--have presented formal lectures related to periods before 1900. As part of their visits, these scholars have also presented informal talks on contemporary topics, read from their works, and visited literature classes and writers' workshops.

The Schick Library

To enhance the Schick Lectures, the Department purchases copies of all in-print books authored or edited by Schick Lecturers. After they are signed, they are placed in the Department's collection, which currently includes over five-hundred volumes. The collection is available for research and reading by undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.

David Bevington

  • University of Chicago
  • "Adaptations of Shakespeare"
  • October 22, 2010

Claire Harmon

  • Columbia University
  • "Time and Miss Austen"
  • October 28, 2010

Henry Glassie

  • Indiana University
  • "History and Wit in Artful Narration"
  • November 4, 2010, Folklore Conference

 

Vincent Woods

  • Dublin, Ireland
  • "Black Pig and Straw Men"
  • November 4, 2010 Folklore Conference, 2 PM

Mick Moloney

  • NYU
  • "Harrigan, Hart, and Braham"
  • November 5, 2010 Folklore Conference
  • Recital Hall, Center for Performing and Fine Arts, 8:00 PM

Brycchan Carey

  • Kingston University, London
  • "We are against"
  • January 20, 2011

Geoffrey Sill

  • Rutgers University
  • "The Sentimental Moment in English Fiction"
  • February 10, 2011

Clarence Major

  • UC, Davis
  • "Paul Laurence Dunbar: His Influences, Romanticism, and Race"
  • February 24, 2011

Janis Stout

  • Texas A and M
  • "Writing About/Out of History"
  • March 24, 2011

Ian Duncan

  • UC, Berkeley
  • "TBA"
  • April 7, 2011

Katherine Duncan-Jones

  • Oxford
  • "Shakespeare and Ambition"
  • April 21, 2011

 

All programs to be held in Root Hall at 3:30 PM unless otherwise noted.

Schick Lecturers

A

  • Abrahams, Roger D.
  • Abrams, M. H.
  • Aers, David
  • Algeo, John - University of Georgia, Spring 1993
  • Alter, Robert - University of California- Berkeley, Spring 1994
  • Anderson, David D. - Michigan State University, Spring 1995
  • Andrews, William L.
  • Andriano, Joseph - University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Spring 2006
  • Armstrong, Nancy - Brown University, Spring 1995
  • Auchincloss, Louis - Fall 1995
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B

  • Bailey, Richard W. - University of Michigan, Spring 2004
  • Baker, Jr., Houston A. Spring 1989
  • Banta, Martha - University of Chicago, Spring 1993
  • Baym, Nina - University of Illinois
  • Benson, Larry D. - Harvard University, Spring 1991
  • Bercovitch, Sacvan - Harvard University
  • Bevington, David - University of Chicago, Spring 2006, Fall 2010
  • Bjork, Robert E.
  • Bloom, Harold Irving - Yale University
  • Borck, Jim Springer - Louisiana State University, Fall 2003
  • Bronner, Simon J. - Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, Fall 1994, Fall 2002, Fall 2005
  • Brooks, Cleanth - Yale University, Fall 1991
  • Bruccoli, Matthew
  • Brunvand, Jan Harold - University of Utah, Fall 1990
  • Buell, Lawrence - Harvard University, Spring 2000
  • Busby, Mark - Director for the Center for the Study of the Southwest, Spring 2000
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C

  • Cable, Thomas - University of Texas at Austin, Spring 1995
  • Carby, Hazel V. - Yale University, Spring 1996
  • Carey, Brycchan - Kingston University, London, Fall 2010
  • Cassidy, Frederic G.
  • Crane, Susan - Rutgers University, Spring 2001
  • Culler, Jonathan - Cornell University, Spring 1994
  • Cutter, Martha - University of Connecticut, Spring 2008
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D

  • Dance, Daryl Cumber - University of Richmond, Fall 2002
  • Davidson, Cathy N. - Duke University, Fall 2004
  • de Caro, Frank - Louisiana State University, Fall 2002
  • Deane, Seamus
  • Duckworth, Alistair M. - University of Florida, Gainesville, Spring 1999
  • Dugaw, Dianne M. - University of Oregon, Fall 1996
  • Duncan, Ian - UC, Berkeley, Fall 2010
  • Duncan-Jones, Katherine - Oxford, Fall 2010
  • Dundes, Alan - University of California at Berkeley, Fall 1997
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E

  • Eagleton, Terry - Linacre College in Oxford, Fall 1992
  • Eaves, Morris
  • Emerson, Everett - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Evenson, Brian - Brown University, Fall 2007
  • Ezell, Margaret J. M. - Texas A & M University, Fall 1995
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F

  • Fergus, Jan - Leheigh University, Fall 2007
  • Fine, Gary Alan - Northwestern University, Fall 2005
  • Fish, Stanley - University of Illinois at Chicago, Spring 2003
  • Fisher, John H. - University of Tennessee, Spring 1991
  • Flannery, James W. - Emory University, Fall 1995
  • Fludernik, Monica - University of Freiburg, Germany, Spring 2010
  • Foley, John Miles
  • Folsom, Ed, University of Iowa, Spring 2010
  • Forrest, Leon - Northwestern University, Spring 1991
  • Foster, Frances Smith - Emory University, Fall 2005
  • Fox-Genovese, Elizabeth - Emory University, Fall 1997
  • Franklin, H. Bruce - Rutgers University, Fall 1991
  • French, Marilyn - Spring 1992
  • Fussel, Paul - University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1993
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G

  • Gallagher, Katherine - University of California at Berkeley, Spring 1997
  • Gates, Jr., Henry Louis
  • Gillespie, Michael - Florida International University, Fall 2009
  • Gioia, Dana - Spring 2001
  • Glassie, Henry - Indiana University, Fall 1990, Fall 2010
  • Greenblatt, Stephen
  • Greenspan, Ezra
  • Gubar, Susan - Indiana University, Fall 1992
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H

  • Haggerty, George - University of California, Riverside, Fall 2004
  • Hall, Donald - Fall 1998, Fall 1990, Fall 1998, Spring 2005
  • Hansen, William - Indiana University, Fall 2004
  • Harmon, Claire - Columbia University, Fall 2010
  • Harper, Michael S. - Brown University, Spring 2001
  • Harris, Trudier - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Spring 2008
  • Hirsch, Edward - Guggenheim Foundation, Spring 2010
  • Hoffman, Daniel - University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1994
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I

  • Ives (Sandy), Edward D. - University of Maine, Fall 1996
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J

  • Jabbour, Alan - Fall 2001
  • Jiménez, Francisco - Santa Clara University, Spring 2006
  • Johnson, Claudia L. - Princeton University, Spring 1999
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K

  • Kavanagh, John - Fall 2001
  • Kennedy, J. Gerald - Louisiana State University, Fall 2000
  • Kennedy, Norman - Fall 1996
  • Kenner, Hugh
  • Kermode, Frank - Yale University, Spring 1994
  • Kincaid, James R. - University of Southern California, Fall 2003
  • Kinzie, Mary - Northwestern University, Spring 2001
  • Knight, Stephen - Cardiff University, Wales, Spring 2005
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L

  • Labov, William - University of Pennsylvania, Fall 2003
  • Langlois, Janet - Wayne State University, Fall 2005
  • Lazarus, A. L.
  • Lemay, J. A. Leo - University of Delaware, Spring 2005
  • Lighter, J. E.
  • Lindahl, Carl - Fall 2003, Spring 2006
  • Lord, Albert B.
  • Lowe, John - Louisiana State University, Fall 2004
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M

  • MacKay, Carol Hanbery - University of Texas, Spring 1992
  • MacKethan, Lucinda H. - North Carolina State University, Spring 2004
  • Major, Clarence - UC, Davis, Fall 2010
  • May, James - Penn State, DuBois Campus, Fall 2009
  • Malone, Bill C. - Tulane University, Fall 2000
  • Martin, Terrence - Indiana University, Fall 1992
  • McCall, Dan - Cornell University, Fall 2001
  • Mechling, Jay - University of California, Davis, Fall 2005
  • Mieder, Wolfgang - University of Vermont, Fall 1998, Fall 2005
  • Miller, J. Hillis
  • Minkova, Donka - University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1997
  • Moloney, Mick - NYU, Fall 2010
  • Muldoon, Paul - Princeton University, Spring 2008
  • Mulford, Carla - Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2005
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N

  • Nelson, Cary - University of Illinois, Summer 1991
  • Niles, John D. (Jack) - University of Wisconsin, Madison, Spring 2008
  • Nussbaum, Felicity A. - University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 2005
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O

  • Orgel, Stephen - Stanford University, Fall 1994
  • Oring, Elliot - California State University at Los Angeles, Fall 2000
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P

  • Pearsall, Derek - Harvard University, Spring 1991
  • Peck, Russell A.
  • Pizer, Donald
  • Pritchard, William H. - Amherst College, Fall 2000, Spring 2006
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Q

R

  • Rambuss, Richard - Emory University, Spring 2008
  • Reilly, Patrick - University of Glasgow, Summer 1992
  • Ritchie, Jean - Fall 1991
  • Robinson, Tim - Spring 1998
  • Romines, Ann - George Washington University, Spring 2010
  • Roznowski, Tom - Musican, Scholar, Fall 2004 and Fall 2009
  • Ryan, Michael - National Museum of Ireland, Spring 1991
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S

  • Sanders, Scott Russell - Indiana University, Fall 2009
  • Scharnhorst, Gary - University of New Mexico, Spring 2000
  • Schiff, Stacy - Spring 2005
  • Schoenbaum, Samuel - University of Maryland, Spring 1992
  • Schuchard, Keith - Independent Scholar, Spring 2008
  • Schuchard, Ron - Emory University, Spring 2008
  • Schwartz, Howard - University of Missouri, St. Louis, Fall 2002
  • Sealts, Jr., Merton M. - University of Wisconsin, Fall 1991
  • Seeger, Peggy - Fall 2001
  • Seelye, John - University of Florida, Fall 1999
  • Shapiro, James - New York University, Spring 2007
  • Shawcross, John T. - University of Kentucky, Fall 1990
  • Sheidlower, Jesse - Spring 2003
  • Sills, Geoffrey - Rutgers University, Fall 2010
  • Snodgrass, W. D. - Spring 1998, Spring 2000, Fall 2000, Spring 2003, Spring 2006
  • Spacks, Patricia Meyer - University of Virginia, Fall 2005
  • Steele, Timothy - California State University at Los Angeles, Fall 2002
  • Stockwell, Robert P. - University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 1997
  • Stout, Janis - Texas A and M, Fall 2010
  • Sundquist, Eric J. - University of California, Los Angeles, Spring 2004
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T

  • Tatar, Maria - Harvard University
  • Taylor, Gary - University of Alabama, Spring 2005
  • Thomas, M. Wynn - University of Wales, Spring 1998
  • Toelken, Barre - Utah State University, Fall 1996
  • Turner, Frederick - University of Texas at Dallas, Spring 1993
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U

V

  • Varma, Devendra P. - Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Fall 1993
  • Vendler, Helen
  • Vlach, John Michael - George Washington University, Fall 1999
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W

  • Waldman, Ken - Fall 2002
  • Wallace, Robert K. - Northern Kentucky University, Spring 1998
  • Ward, Jerry - Tougaloo College, Spring 2002
  • Watt, Ian P. - Stanford University, Spring 1992
  • Wheeler, Bonnie
  • White, Virginia L.
  • Wilson, William A. - Brigham Young University, Fall 2009
  • Winterowd, W. Ross - University of Southern California, Spring 1992
  • Woods, Vincent - Dublin, Ireland, Fall 2010
  • Wright, George T. - University of Minnesota, Spring 2004
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X

Y

Z