Join the Department of English and the Creative Writing Program for the 2023 Carpenter Lecture, presented by Christopher Ricks.
Christopher Ricks is a British literary scholar and critic. He is the author, most recently, of Along Heroic Lines, as well as numerous works on the writings of Tennyson, T. S. Eliot, Keats, Beckett, and even Bob Dylan. He currently teaches at Boston University and formerly served as faculty at Bristol, Cambridge, and Oxford University. Ricks is the department’s celebrated Carpenter Lecturer.