Past Events

Past Events

Visiting Hurst Professor Joseph O'Neill Reading

Hurst Lounge

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.
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