Schedule
A constantly updating list of our upcoming events. Check back regularly for new announcements and events.
Upcoming Events
Past Events
2018-2019
2017-2018
Dostoyevsky
Participants: Michaela Bronstein, Alexander Burry, Yuri Corrigan, Jeanne‑Marie Jackson, Chloë Kitzinger, Karla Oeler, Nancy Ruttenburg, Peter Schwartz
2016 – 2017
Novel Institutions
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 : RobertAlter, 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
Participants : Amanda Anderson, Amanda Claybaugh, Pericles Lewis, Sean McCann, John Plotz, Michael Szalay, Harvey Teres
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
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
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
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
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
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
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-ProgressParticipants : Harro Muller, Nathalie Ferrand, Philip Fisher, Elizabeth Amman, Thomas Pavel, Cosma Shalizi, Ian Duncan
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
Center for the
Study of the Novel
Margaret Jacks Hall, 460-411
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2087
Director
Graduate Coordinators
Cynthia Giancotti
Casey Patterson
Victoria Zurita
Programs
Department of English
Division of Literatures,
Cultures, and Languages
Stanford Literary Lab