Sponsored annual talks in book history in fall semester by prominent guest speakers. Sponsored by the Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair and held in Monmouth University’s landmark Great Hall.
- 2024: Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English, Monmouth University, West Long Branch, NJ, on “Green Worlds in Black and White: Feminist Readings of the 1930s Wood Engraving Revival,” co-sponsored as a Teach-in lecture with the Sheryl Oring “I Wish to Say” exhibition at Monmouth University.
- 2019: Priya Joshi, Professor of English, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, on “Stranger than Fiction: The Novel in Web 2.0.”
- 2018: Lisa Gitelman, Professor of English, New York University, New York, NY, on “Time Travel, Impeachment, and PDFs.”
- 2017: Todd Tietchen, Associate Professor of English, UMass, Lowell, Lowell, MA, on “Spontaneous Prose and Networked Media: A Discussion of Jack Kerouac’s Scrolls.”
- 2016: Jonathan Rose, Professor of History, Drew University, Madison, NJ, on “Up from Middlebrow”
- 2015: Ellen Gruber Garvey, Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University, NJ, on “Activists Repurpose Media: 19th Century American Scrapbooks.”
- 2013: John B. Hench, Emeritus Vice President for Collections and Programs at the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA, on “Never Far from Books.”
- 2012: Pat Crain, Associate Professor of English, New York University, NY, on “Imagining the Child Reader, Then and Now.”