Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series
About The Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series
The Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series was established after the death, in 2009, of Dr. Naseeb Shaheen, who was a professor in the English Department at the University of Memphis for many years. Dr. Shaheen wrote extensively about early modern literature, chiefly Shakespeare. His books on biblical references in Shakespeare's plays (1999, 2002) and Spenser's The Faerie Queene (1976) remain the definitive work in this field. He also published a two-volume Pictorial History of Ramallah (Palestine) (1992, 2006). In addition to his scholarly work, Dr. Shaheen was a noted philanthropist and collector of pre-King James English Bibles. The Shaheen Memorial Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of English and the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities.
The Thirteenth Annual Naseeb Shaheen Memorial Lecture
Spring 2024 Lecture Series
Marjorie Garber // Harvard University
Displacement
After "After the Humanities"
Past Shaheen Lecturers
10/13/2022
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Emily Lordi, Vanderbilt University |
10/6/2022 |
Florence Dore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
11/18/2021 |
Rob Nixon, Princeton University |
10/3/2019
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Stephanie Burt, Harvard University |
10/4/18 |
Hannibal Hamlin, Professor of English, Ohio State University |
11/2/17 |
Yolanda Pierce, Professor and Dean, Howard University School of Divinity |
10/20/16 |
William J. Maxwell, Professor of English and African and African American Studies at Washington University
in St. Louis |
10/22/15 |
Nicholas Watson, Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English, Harvard University |
10/2/14 |
Paul Stevens, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University
of Toronto |
11/21/13 |
Achsah Guibbory, Ann Whitney Olin Prof. of English, Barnard College |
10/18/12 |
Katherine Bassard, Professor of English, Virginia Commonwealth University |
11/10/11 |
Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew Language and Comparative Literature, University of California
at Berkeley |
9/21/10 |
Debora Shuger, Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA |
PAST SHAHEEN SYMPOSIA
10/16/15 "Keepin' it Real: The Languages of Authenticity"
9/26/14 "Producing Heroes"