For almost seven decades The English Institute has been a major resource for developments in criticism, theory, and scholarship, while honoring traditional fields of interest and modes of literary analysis.

The 2013 conference, our 72nd meeting, continues the Institute's renewed focus on the building blocks of the profession and craft: periodization, genre, authorship, reading, text, and other issues of key concern to students, teachers, scholars, and theorists of literature.

The topic for this year's conference is Form. The conference will take place on September 6-8, 2013 at Harvard University's Barker Center. The speakers at this fall's conference are as follows:

Ardis Butterfield (Yale University), "Why Medieval Lyric?"
Bradin Cormack (The University of Chicago), "Form and Action"
Simon Jarvis (Cambridge University), "How to Do Things with Tunes"
Meta DuEwa Jones (The University of Texas at Austin), "Forms of Exposure: Photogenic Poetics in Natasha Trethewey and Lorna Simpson"
Robin Kelsey (Harvard University), "Form as Remainder"
Sandra Macpherson (The Ohio State University), "A Little Formalism"
Meredith Martin (Princeton University), "'Imperfectly Civilized': Ballads, Nations, and Histories of Form"

For more information, please contact Amelia Klein, the Conference Coordinator, at englinst@fas.harvard.edu.

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