Conference Program
Our Memorial Lecturer was Langdon Hammer, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. The title of his lecture was “Lyric, Anti-Lyric, and the Early Eliot.” A recording of that lecture may be found here.
Peer Seminar Leaders for our gathering were Patrick Query (“The Uses of Eliot”) and Megan Quigley & Kamran Javadizadeh (“Eliot and Epistolarity”).
The Society offers awards to new scholars, both in our Peer Seminars and in the papers delivered on panels. The winners this year were:
The Fathman Award: Ann Marie Jakubowski, Valparaiso U “Conversion as Revision: The Retrospective Poetics of Burnt Norton“; and Brenna Courtney, U of Virginia “T. S. Eliot’s Marianne Moore’s ‘Restraint'”
The T. S. Eliot Annual prize: Erin Yanota for “On No Longer Being ‘very young and bumptious’: Eliot, Mysticism, and a Usable Past”
Here is a description of those awards, as well as a list of past winners.
