Each year, the Department of English invites a distinguished scholar to deliver The Robert J. Kane Lecture on a topic related to their current work. This year’s Kane Lecture will be delivered by Professor Rob Nixon, the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Family Professor in the Humanities and the Environment at Princeton University. He is the author of four books, including the award-winning Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard, 2011), His areas of particular interest include environmental justice, climate change and the interface between the environmental humanities and the public humanities. Nixon is currently working on a collection of essays on environmental justice in the Anthropocene. More details to come on the title and topic of Professor Nixon’s Kane Lecture.