2000-2001

Fiction Bound and Unbound / Participants : Kate Flint, Catherine Gallagher, Walter Siti, Henry Yiheng Zhao

Statistics and the Rise of the Novel : Quantitative Evidence and Literary History / Participants : John Austin, Wendy Griswold, Priya Joshi, Elisa Marti-Lopez, James Raven, Mario Santana, Jonathan Zwicker

Experiments in Fiction Today / Participants : Ursula Heise, Brian McHale, Gilbert Sorrentino, Kaun Tei Yamashita

2001-2002

Teaching Stories / Participants : Mary Foote, Eric Chandler, Scott Lankford, Michal Peled Ginsburg, Elizabeth Langland, Hilary Schor, Richard Terdiman

Epic and Novel / Participants : Meenakshi Mukherjee, Myra Jehlen, Neil Larsen, Clarisse Zimra, Gilbert Adair

Interdisciplinary Work-in-Progress / Participants : Harro Muller, Nathalie Ferrand, Philip Fisher, Elizabeth Amman, Thomas Pavel, Cosma Shalizi, Ian Duncan)

2002-2003

Origins of the Novel : A Comparative Assessment / Participants : Tomas H , Andrew Plaks, Joan Ramon Resina, Thomas DiPiero, Nancy Armstrong, Aranye Fradenburg, Leah Price, and William Warner.

The Persistence of Realism / Participants : Roberto Schwarz, Hilary Schor,
Seung-Cheol Song, Alex Woloch, Perry Anderson, Peter Brooks, Margaret Cohen, Fredric Jameson

2003-2004

Prose / Participants : Michal Ginsburg and Lorri Nadrea,  Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Aranye Fradenburg, Caryl Emerson, Ann Banfield, Wlad Godzich, Robert Kawashima, D. A. Miller

Representations of the Enemy / Participants : Carlo Ginzburg, Donald Sasson, Djelal Kadir, Murat Belge, Gopal Balakrishnan, John Brenkman, Susan Neiman, Bruce Robbins)

2004-2005

Reading /Particpants : April Allison, Peter Brooks, Roger Chartier, Craig Dworkin, Roland Greene, Carla Hesse, Frank Lentricchia, Sharon Marcus, Haun Saussy

The Maritime in Modernity Particpants : Ian Baucom, Cesare Casarino, Chris Connery, Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Darcy Grigsby, Robert Harms, Bernhard Klein, Jonathan Lamb, Chandra Mukerji, Geoffrey Quilley, Marcus Rediker, Nigel Rigby, Allan Sekula, Philip Steinberg, T. J. Clark, Samuel Otter, Jessica Riskin, Kaeren Wigan

2005-2006

Adventure / Participants : Lorna Hutson, Giancarlo Maiorino, Srinivas Aravamudan, Sylvie Thorel, J. Doyne Farmer, Scott Bukatman, Sunil Agnani, Joshua Clover, Ursula Heise, Nicholas Paige

Illustration / Particpants : Emily Apter, Sharon Marcus, Anne Higonnet, Vanessa Schwartz, Anthony Vidler, Nancy Armstrong, Leslie Camhi, Kate Flint, Christopher Prendergast, William Schaefer, Richard Terdiman

2006-2007

The Extreme Contemporary Participants: Speakers: Svetlana Boym, Joshua Clover, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Alan Liu, Bill Luoma, Katie Salen, Celeste Langan, Tyrus Miller, Sianne Ngai, Anne Wagner)

For a Theory of the Novel of the 21st Century / Participants : Antonia Syson, Jesper Juul, Qiancheng Li, Sylvain Venayre, Anatole Pierre Fuksas, Lynn Festa, Alex Woloch, Jesse Matz, Kent Puckett, Mariano Siskind, Chris Warnes, Vilashini Cooppan, Anjali Prabhu, Leah Price, Jonathan Zwicker, Amanpal Garcha, Jérôme David, Andrea Miconi, Steven Johnson

2007-2008

Race and Narrative Theory Participants: Ramon Saldivar, Ulka Anjaria, Jennifer Brody, Dorothy Hale, Ernesto Martinez, James Phelan, Carla Kaplan, Vilashini Cooppan, Paula Moya, Kenneth Warren, Herman Beavers

2008-2009

Politics and the Novel

Participants: Amanda Anderson, Amanda Claybaugh, Pericles Lewis, Sean McCann, John Plotz, Michael Szalay, Harvey Teres

 

2000-2001 : Walter Benn Michaels
The Novel after History and Theory

2001-2002 : Mario Vargas Llosa

2002-2003 : Jonathan Culler
Narratology Today

2003-2004 : Catherine Gallagher
Daniel Deronda: The 'Too-Much' of Literature

2004-2005 : Nancy Ruttenburg
Simplifying the Novel

2005-2006 : Bill Brown
Novel Objects : Object Relations in an Expanded Field

2006-2007 : Margaret Doody/
Nasty Characters and Unlovable Styles : The Novel's Negative Way to Pleasure

2007-2008 : Fredric Jameson/Realism : A Theoretical Problem

2008-2009 : Bruce Robbins/The Worlding of the Novel