Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Distinguished Professor of English at the City University of New York's Graduate Center, will deliver the Winton Tolles Lecture on Thursday, April 25, at 8 p.m. in the College Chapel. The title of her talk is "A Dialogue on Love."
A Yale Ph.D., Sedgwick taught at Hamilton from 1978-81, went on to Boston University from 1981-83, and held the Newman Ivey White Professorship in the Department of English at Duke University from 1988 to 1997. Her distinguished scholarly resume includes a number of edited volumes and books, including A Dialogue on Love (Beacon Press). Another book, Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity, will be published this year by Duke University Press. She is a nationally recognized feminist scholar and literary theorist.
A reception and book signing in the Emerson Gallery will follow the lecture, which is free and open to the public.
This lecture is made possible by Winton Tolles lecture fund established in honor of Winton Tolles, dean of the college from 1947-72, by the Class of 1951 at their 40th reunion. The lecture fund brings writers from the fields of literature, journalism and theater to the campus.
