Past Events | Conferences and Panels
2022-2023
Conference: The Poetics of the City - (5/19 - 5/20/2023)
Participants: Ulka Anjaria, Matthew Beaumont, Catherine Flynn, Amitav Ghosh, Ursula Heise, Cajetan Iheka, Jini Kim Watson, David Kurnick, Anne Lounsbery, Catherine Nesci, Ato Quayson, Brigid Rooney, Emily Steinlight
2021-2022
Conference: The Turn Against Fictionality (5/13-14/2022)
Participants: Tim Brennan, Lennard Davis, Percival Everett, Donna Jones, Roanne Kantor, Annabel Kim, Deidre Lynch, Colleen Lye, Bruce Robbins, Nancy Ruttenburg, Christophe Schuwey
2020-2021
Panel on Anti-Racist Pedagogies of the Novel (5/14/2021)
Participants: Chris Freeburg, Achille Mbembe, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas
See video recording
Panel on Crime Narratives (4/30/2021)
Participants: Andrea Goulet, Michelle Robinson, Héctor Hoyos
Interview podcast and transcripts
Panel on Fictions of Care (2/23/2021)
Participants: Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Talia Schaffer, Abraham Verghese
See video recording
2019-2020
Panel on Cognitive Literary Studies (2/21/2020)
Participants: Fritz Breithaupt, Lisa Zunshine, Haiyan Lee
Panel on Fashion Stories (1/9/2020)
Participants: Emily Apter, Rhonda Garelick, Anne Higonnet
Interview podcast and transcripts
Panel on Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (11/15/2019)
Participants: Ato Quayson, Richard Halpern, John Kerrigan
Interview podcast and transcripts
2018-2019
Panel on Speculative Fictions: Possible Futures for the Planet (5/23/2019)
Participants: Wai Chee Dimock, Colin Milburn, John Plotz
Interview podcast and transcripts
2017-2018
Novel Dostoyevsky (5/18/2018)
Participants: Michaela Bronstein, Alexander Burry, Yuri Corrigan, Jeanne‑Marie Jackson, Chloë Kitzinger, Karla Oeler, Nancy Ruttenburg, Peter Schwartz
2016 – 2017
Novel Institutions (5/9/2017)
Participants: David Alworth, Beth Blum, Kasia Boddy, Michaela Bronstein, Sarah Brouillette, John Alba Cutler, Merve Emre, Jim English, Andrew Goldstone, Günter Leypoldt, Philipp Löffler, Vaughn Rasberry, Jeremy Rosen
2015 – 2016
Novel Marxisms
Participants: Sianne Ngai, Michael Szalay,
Annie Mc Clanahan, Timothy Bewes, Benjamin Kohlmann, Joshua Clover
2013-2014
Sciences and Fictions
Participants : Natalia Cecire, Jay Clayton, Jennifer Fleissner, Ursula Heise, Amy Hungerford, Kate Marshall, Elijah Meeks, Paula Moya, Mark Seltzer, Matthew Taylor, Blakey Vermeule, Cary Wolfe
2012-2013
What is the Nature of Literary Being?
Participants : Branka Arsic, Peter Brooks, Carrol Clarkson, Claire Jarvis, David Kurnick. Jonathan Lamb, Sylvia Molloy. Karin Sanders, Garrett Stewart, Cristina Vatulescu
2011-2012
Is the Novel Democratic?
Participants : Elizabeth Anker, Nancy Armstrong, Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Brian Edwards, Meltem Gürle, Kent Puckett, Vaughn Rasberry, Mariano Siskind, Alan Tansman, Ban Wang
2010-2011
Is the Novel Secular?
Participants : Robert Alter, Derek Attridge, Simon During, Anne-lise François, Michal Govin, Dorothy Hale, Beatriz Jaguaribe, Vincent Pecora, Karen Zumhagen-Yekplé
2009-2010
Novel & Film
Participants : Lauren Berlant, Edward Branigan, Homay King, D. A. Miller, Sean O’Sullivan, Garrett Stewart
2008-2009
Politics and the Novel (4/10/2009)
Participants : Amanda Anderson, Amanda Claybaugh, Pericles Lewis, Sean McCann, John Plotz, Michael Szalay, Harvey Teres
2007-2008
Race and Narrative Theory (4/11/2008)
Participants : Ramon Saldivar, Ulka Anjaria, Jennifer Brody, Dorothy Hale, Ernesto Martinez, James Phelan, Carla Kaplan, Vilashini Cooppan, Paula Moya, Kenneth Warren, Herman Beavers
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
2005-2006
Illustration (1/13/2006)
Particpants : Emily Apter, Sharon Marcus, Anne Higonnet, Vanessa Schwartz, Anthony Vidler, Nancy Armstrong, Leslie Camhi, Kate Flint, Christopher Prendergast, William Schaefer, Richard Terdiman
Adventure (11/11/2005)
Participants : Lorna Hutson, Giancarlo Maiorino, Srinivas Aravamudan, Sylvie Thorel, J. Doyne Farmer, Scott Bukatman, Sunil Agnani, Joshua Clover, Ursula Heise, Nicholas Paige
2004-2005
The Maritime in Modernity (4/28/2005)
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
Reading
Particpants : April Allison, Peter Brooks, Roger Chartier, Craig Dworkin, Roland Greene, Carla Hesse, Frank Lentricchia, Sharon Marcus, Haun Saussy
2003-2004
Representations of the Enemy (4/23/2004)
Participants : Carlo Ginzburg, Donald Sasson, Djelal Kadir, Murat Belge, Gopal Balakrishnan, John Brenkman, Susan Neiman, Bruce Robbins
Prose (10/31/2003)
Participants : Michal Ginsburg and Lorri Nadrea, Sylvie Thorel-Cailleteau, Aranye Fradenburg, Caryl Emerson, Ann Banfield, Wlad Godzich, Robert Kawashima, D. A. Miller
2002-2003
The Persistence of Realism (5/2/2003)
Participants : Roberto Schwarz, Hilary Schor, Seung-Cheol Song, Alex Woloch, Perry Anderson, Peter Brooks, Margaret Cohen, Fredric Jameson
Origins of the Novel: A Comparative Assessment (11/15/2002)
Participants : Tomas H , Andrew Plaks, Joan Ramon Resina, Thomas DiPiero, Nancy Armstrong, Aranye Fradenburg, Leah Price, and William Warner.
2001-2002
Interdisciplinary Works in Progress (5/3/2002)
Participants: Ann Banfield, Harro Müller, Nathalie Ferrand, Philip Fisher
Epic and Novel (1/18/2002)
Participants : Meenakshi Mukherjee, Myra Jehlen, Neil Larsen, Clarisse Zimra, Gilbert Adair
Teaching Stories (10/12/2001)
Participants : Mary Foote, Eric Chandler, Scott Lankford, Michal Peled Ginsburg, Elizabeth Langland, Hilary Schor, Richard Terdiman
2000-2001
Experiments in Fiction Today (5/11/2001)
Participants : Ursula Heise, Brian McHale, Gilbert Sorrentino, Kaun Tei Yamashita
Statistics and the Rise of the Novel : Quantitative Evidence and Literary History (3/2/2001)
Participants : John Austin, Wendy Griswold, Priya Joshi, Elisa Marti-Lopez, James Raven, Mario Santana, Jonathan Zwicker
Fiction Bound and Unbound (10/13/2000)
Participants : Kate Flint, Catherine Gallagher, Walter Siti, Henry Yiheng Zhao
Center for the
Study of the Novel
Margaret Jacks Hall, 460-411
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
Director
Graduate Coordinators
Allie Gamble
Ido Keren
Casey Patterson
Alex Sherman
Programs
Department of English
Division of Literatures,
Cultures, and Languages
Stanford Literary Lab