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 2009 conference, our 68th meeting, continues the Institute’s renewed focus on the building blocks of the profession and craft: periodization, genre, authorship, reading, the critic's voice, and other issues of key concern to students, teachers, scholars, and theorists of literature.

The topic for this year's conference is genre. The conference will take place on September 11-13, 2009 at Harvard University's Barker Center.