Abioseh Michael Porter will give a presentation Thursday, February 22, 2012, 4 pm, Sturm Hall 286 (the Humanities Institute Room)

Poet Alice Notley will read Monday February 27, 2012 at 6:30 pm in Sturm 451

Cole Swensen and Nicolas Pesques will give a talk on translation March 12, 2012 at 6:30 pm in Sturm 451

Philosopher Alphonso Lingis will read Thursday April 19 at 8pm in Sturm 451

Poet Lisa Robertson will be writer in residence April 23-27, 2012.

Teju Cole read October 20, 2011.  Teju Cole is a writer, art historian, and street photographer.  He was born in the US to Nigerian parents, raised in Nigeria, and currently lives in Brooklyn.  Cole has been a contributor to Qarrtsiluni, Chimurenga, The New Yorker, Transition, and Tin House.  He is currently at work on a book-length non-fiction narrative of Lagos.  Teju Cole is the author of Every Day is for the Thief and Open City.

Dr. Mattias Oppermann gave a talk, "Social Pedagogy and Cultural Critique in the Age of YouTube," January 12, 2012

Scott Howard's The Divorce Tracts of John Milton: Texts and Contexts has been published by Duquesne University Press, and Maik Nwosu's Markets of Memories: Between the Postcolonial and the Transnational has been published by Africa World Press.