Moore Lecture Series: Department of English

Moore Lecture Series

The project aims to attract great writers to pass their knowledge and experience on to students, faculty, and the Northwestern community.

	2025-26 "Stories I Wrote for the Devil: Reading and Conversation"
	2024-25 John Keene "Reading and Conversation"
	2023-24 ERIKA L. Sánchez "Crying in the Bathroom: Reading and Conversation"
	2022-23 Safia Elhillo "Sudanese Rap and the Language of Place"
	2021-22 Megan Stielstra "If Not Arson Then an Essay"
	2019-20 Karen Russell in conversation with Juan Martinez "Speculative Fiction and its Place in the Current Cultural Moment" co-sponsored with One Book, One Northwestern
photo by Cybele Knowles	2018-19 Natalie Diaz in conversation with Kelly Wisecup "A Poetic Cartography"
photo by Sheila Griffin	2017-18 Aracelis Girmay "Some Schools of Effort and 'Seeing'"
	2015-16 MaTthew Shenoda "Damning the Nile: A Poet's Ecology"
	2014-15 KWAME DAWES "On Collaboration"