ART OF THE LECTURE Lecture I: “Talking in and out of School” Monday, November 9, 2026, 6:00 PM Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also […]

ART OF THE LECTURE Lecture II: “A Brief History of the Podium Shuck” Monday, November 16, 2026, 6:00 PM Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is […]

ART OF THE LECTURE Lecture III: “Accompaniments of the Utterance” Monday, November 23, 2026, 6:00 PM Although lecture courses are a staple of university teaching, there is oddly little scholarship considering the lecture as a format. This series of lectures is framed neither as a straightforward history nor as a practical how-to guide, but instead as an argument for the unique generic qualities and political stakes of the lecture as a mode that hovers between pedagogy and performance. Brent Hayes Edwards is the Peng Family Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he is also affiliated with […]