Kane Lecture, "What We Learned on Our Trip to the Very Queer Past"

March 23, 2023

4:00PM - 6:00PM

311 Denney Hall

Add to Calendar 2023-03-23 16:00:00 2023-03-23 18:00:00 Kane Lecture, "What We Learned on Our Trip to the Very Queer Past" 2023 Kane Lecture by Stephanie Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University Reflecting on her current work toward an anthology of queer and proto-queer poetry in English from the medieval period to the 1920s, Stephanie Burt will discuss queer poetics among these celebrated or neglected precursors. Do they tell any story about queerness or transness as we understand it now? 4-5 p.m.: Lecture and Q&A 5-6 p.m.: Informal discussion among lecture attendees The 2023 Kane Lecture will also be livestreamed via a view-only Zoom webinar. To view the Kane Lecture via Zoom, please register to attend; you will receive an automated confirmation with a unique, personalized link to the event. Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with nine published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next poetry collection is We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022). Her other works include Advice from the Lights: Poems (Graywolf, 2017); Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019); The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard UP, 2016); Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press, 2010); Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (University of Virginia Press, 2009); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry (Columbia University Press, 2007); Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf, 2006); Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (University Press, 2005); Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia University Press, 2002); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing, 1999). Burt grew up around Washington, DC, and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 2000. She taught at Macalester College for several years before becoming a professor of English at Harvard University. The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review. 311 Denney Hall OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2023-03-23 16:00:00 2023-03-23 18:00:00 Kane Lecture, "What We Learned on Our Trip to the Very Queer Past" 2023 Kane Lecture by Stephanie Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University Reflecting on her current work toward an anthology of queer and proto-queer poetry in English from the medieval period to the 1920s, Stephanie Burt will discuss queer poetics among these celebrated or neglected precursors. Do they tell any story about queerness or transness as we understand it now? 4-5 p.m.: Lecture and Q&A 5-6 p.m.: Informal discussion among lecture attendees The 2023 Kane Lecture will also be livestreamed via a view-only Zoom webinar. To view the Kane Lecture via Zoom, please register to attend; you will receive an automated confirmation with a unique, personalized link to the event. Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with nine published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next poetry collection is We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022). Her other works include Advice from the Lights: Poems (Graywolf, 2017); Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019); The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard UP, 2016); Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press, 2010); Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (University of Virginia Press, 2009); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry (Columbia University Press, 2007); Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf, 2006); Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (University Press, 2005); Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia University Press, 2002); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing, 1999). Burt grew up around Washington, DC, and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 2000. She taught at Macalester College for several years before becoming a professor of English at Harvard University. The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review. 311 Denney Hall Department of English english@osu.edu America/New_York public

2023 Kane Lecture

by Stephanie Burt, Professor of English, Harvard University

Reflecting on her current work toward an anthology of queer and proto-queer poetry in English from the medieval period to the 1920s, Stephanie Burt will discuss queer poetics among these celebrated or neglected precursors. Do they tell any story about queerness or transness as we understand it now?

4-5 p.m.: Lecture and Q&A

5-6 p.m.: Informal discussion among lecture attendees

The 2023 Kane Lecture will also be livestreamed via a view-only Zoom webinar. To view the Kane Lecture via Zoom, please register to attend; you will receive an automated confirmation with a unique, personalized link to the event.

Stephanie Burt is a poet, literary critic, and professor with nine published books, including two critical books on poetry and three poetry collections. Her essay collection Close Calls with Nonsense (Graywolf Press, 2009) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her next poetry collection is We Are Mermaids (Graywolf, 2022). Her other works include Advice from the Lights: Poems (Graywolf, 2017); Don’t Read Poetry (Basic Books, 2019); The Poem is You: 60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them (Harvard UP, 2016); Belmont (2013); The Art of the Sonnet (Harvard University Press, 2010); Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler (University of Virginia Press, 2009); The Forms of Youth: Adolescence and 20th Century Poetry (Columbia University Press, 2007); Parallel Play: Poems (Graywolf, 2006); Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden (University Press, 2005); Randall Jarrell and His Age (Columbia University Press, 2002); and Popular Music (Center for Literary Publishing, 1999).

Burt grew up around Washington, DC, and received an A.B. from Harvard in 1994 and a Ph.D. in English from Yale in 2000. She taught at Macalester College for several years before becoming a professor of English at Harvard University.

The New York Times called Burt “one of the most influential poetry critics of her generation.” The recipient of a 2016 Guggenheim Fellowship, her writing has appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, the Believer, and the Boston Review.

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