Scientizing the Humanties: Shifts, Collisions, Negotiations

The latest in a distinguished series of speakers to deliver the annual Lahey lecture, the English department is pleased to present Dr. Barbara Hernnstein Smith, Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English Emerita at Duke University and Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University.

Dr. Smith is best known for her work Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory (1988). In addition to the remarkable Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End (1968), Dr. Smith has published numerous books about the relations between the sciences and the humanities, including Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human (2006), and Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion (Terry Lectures) (2010).