In 1976, Edwin Sill Fussell '43 and Paul Fussell, Jr. '45 initiated a fund in honor of their teacher, Charles S. Holmes, who taught at Pomona College between 1941 and 1975. The Fussell brothers gave only the broadest of instructions for the use of this fund, leaving it up to the Department of English at Pomona College to decide how best “to further the encouragement of excellence and inspiration in undergraduate teaching.” Each year, since 1993, a member of the English Department has invited a scholar who has in some particular way inspired him or her as a teacher and scholar to come to campus and share their work with us.
The 25th Charles S. Holmes Memorial Lecture
Speaker - Jacqueline T. Miller
Spenser's Allegory of Temperance and the Competition for Meaning. This paper examines allegory as a competition for meaning between readers and writers, with special attention to Spenser's Book of Temperance and the alternative it proposes to the compulsions of allegory.
Professor Miller is the author of Poetic License: Authority and Authorship in Medieval and Renaissance Contexts (1986). Recent publications include: "Ladies of the Oddest Passion: Early Modern Women and the Arts of Discretion" (Modern Philology, 2006); "Telling Tales: Locating Female Nurture and Narrative in the Faerie Queene" in Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts (eds. Mary Ellen Lamb and Karen Bamford, 2008); "The Passion Signified: The Construction of Emotions in Sidney and Wroth" (Criticism, 2001); "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane" in Worldmaking Spenser: Explorations in the Early Modern Age (eds.Patrick Cheney and Lauren Silberman, 2000); and "Mother Tongues" Language and Lactation in Early Modern Literature" (English Literary Renaissance, 1997).
Monday, March 6, 2017
4:15 PM
Ena Thompson Reading Room (Crookshank 108)
Past Holmes Lecturers
| Year | Lecturer |
|---|---|
| 1993 | Harry Berger, UC Santa Cruz |
| 1994 | John Alford, Michigan State University |
| 1995 | Sara Suleri Goodyear, Yale University |
| 1996 | Christopher Ricks, Boston University |
| 1997 | Stephen Greenblatt, University of California Berkeley |
| 1998 | Wayne C. Booth, University of Chicago |
| 1999 | Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University |
| 2000 | Louis Menand, City University of New York |
| 2001 | Joyce Ann Joyce, Temple University |
| 2002 | Juliet McMaster, University of Alberta at Edmonton |
| 2003 | D.A. Miller, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2004 | David Bevington, University of Chicago |
| 2005 | Susan Stewart, Princeton University |
| 2006 | Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2007 | Marjorie Levinson, University of Michigan |
| 2008 | Mark Hansen, University of Chicago |
| 2009 | Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2010 | Lawrence Buell, Harvard University |
| 2011 | Deidre Shauna Lynch, University of Toronto |
| 2012 | Sianne Ngai, Stanford University |
| 2013 | Lauren Berlant, University of Chicago |
| 2014 | (Spring) Anne Anlin Cheng, Princeton University |
| 2015 | Enda Duffy, Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara |
| 2016 | Charles Baxter, Professor of English, University of Minnesota |
| 2017 | Jacqueline T. Miller, Rutgers University |