Past Events | Ian Watt Lectures
2022-2023
Ian Watt Lecture: Wai Chee Dimock, “A Long History of Pandemics” (3/2/2023)
Participants: Wai Chee Dimock
Interview podcast and transcripts
2021-2022
Ian Watt Lecture: Sianne Ngai, “Inhabiting Error: From Last Christmas to Senior’s Last Hour (6/3/2022)
Participants: Sianne Ngai
2020-2021
Ian Watt Lecture: Sharon Marcus, "Reading as if for Death” (10/30/2020)
Participants: Sharon Marcus
See video recording
Interview podcast and transcripts
2018-2019
Ian Watt Lecture: Rita Felski, “Identification: A Defense” (5/3/2019)
Participants: Rita Felski
Interview podcast and transcripts
2017-2018
Ian Watt Lecture: Thomas Pavel, “Trusting Literature, The Case of the Novel” (2/27/2018)
Participants: Thomas Pavel
2016 – 2017
Ian Watt Lecture: Amanda Anderson (3/9/2017)
Participants: Amanda Anderson
2015 – 2016
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
Ian Watt Lecture: Zadie Smith, “Why Write?” (4/2/2012)
Participants: Zadie Smith
2010-2011
Ian Watt Lecture: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, “Globalectic Heterotopia” (4/6/2011)
Participants: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
2009-2010
Ian Watt Lecture: Benedict Anderson, “Escaping from Space-Time Compression: Fiction from the Margins” (11/4/2009)
Participants: Benedict Anderson
2008-2009
Ian Watt Lecture: Bruce Robbins (4/9/2009)
Participants: Bruce Robbins
2007-2008
Ian Watt Lecture: Frederic Jameson, “Realism: A Theoretical Problem.” (2/27/2008)
Participants: Frederic Jameson
2006-2007
2005-2006
Ian Watt Lecture: Bill Brown, “Novel Objects” (2/23/2006)
Participants: Bill Brown
2004-2005
2003-2004
Ian Watt Lecture: Catherine Gallagher, “Daniel Deronda: the ‘too-much’ of literature” (1/20/2004)
Participants: Catherine Gallagher
2002-2003
Ian Watt Lecture: Jonathan Culler, “Narratology Today” (4/2/2003)
Participants: Jonathan Culler
2001-2002
Ian Watt Lecture: Mario Vargas Llosa (2/19/2002)
Participants: Mario Vargas Llosa
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