Past Events
Visiting Hurst Professor Joseph O'Neill Craft Talk
Hurst Lounge
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Visiting Hurst Professor Rosa Alcalá Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Hurst Lecture - Good Uses for ‘Bad’ Literature: Genre and Criticism in Context
The English Department is hosting visiting Hurst Professor Rosamond S. King the week of October 27-31. Her schedule includes two public events, which all are welcome to attend.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
CANCELLED- Visiting Writer Mary Ruefle Reading from Essays and Poetry
Due to unforeseen circumstances the event had to be canceled.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
CANCELLED-Visiting Writer Mary Ruefle Recitation of Letters
Due to unforeseen circumstances the event had to be canceled.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Philip Leventhal Event: Publishing with a University Press
Philip Leventhal is executive editor at Columbia University Press. He acquires books in film and media studies, literary studies, and journalism studies.
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Book Launch - Edward McPherson - "Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View"
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 - 6:00pm
Edward McPherson - Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Presented by Left Bank Books & the Left Bank Books Foundation
Join us to help celebrate St. Louis author Edward McPherson for the launch of his newest highly celebrated book Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View. Blending history, reporting, personal experience, and accounts of activists, programmers, spies, astronauts, artists, inventors, and dreamers, Edward McPherson reveals that to see is to control--and the stakes are high for everyone.
Edward McPherson - Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View
Presented by Left Bank Books & the Left Bank Books Foundation
Join us to help celebrate St. Louis author Edward McPherson for the launch of his newest highly celebrated book Look Out: The Delight and Danger of Taking the Long View. Blending history, reporting, personal experience, and accounts of activists, programmers, spies, astronauts, artists, inventors, and dreamers, Edward McPherson reveals that to see is to control--and the stakes are high for everyone.
Left Bank Books, 399 N Euclid Ave, St Louis, MO 63108
Visiting Hurst Professor Kim Fu Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Visiting Hurst Professor Kim Fu Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Visiting Writer Aaron Coleman Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Visiting Hurst Professor Paul Lisicky Reading
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Visiting Hurst Professor Paul Lisicky Craft Lecture
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Mary Jo Bang in conversation with Matthias Göritz
Hurst Lounge, Duncker Hall
Markus Hoffman - Going the Distance: How to Win the Publishing Steeplechase (or at Least Get on the Podium)
Hurst Lounge
"Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method" - Ato Quayson
Eric Hayot - Comparative Method at the End of Aesthetic History; or, The Possibilities and Limits of Historical Relativism
A lecture by Eric Hayot, Professor of Comparative Literature & Asian Studies at Penn State
Hurst Lounge