Guest Lecture: Stephanie DeGooyer

Stephanie DeGooyer, Associate Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, works on the intersections between law and literature, with interests in immigration, global migration, and human rights, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Her most recent book, Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization (JHUP 2022) considers how prose and legal fictions worked together in the eighteenth century to reimagine national belonging through naturalization, during the age of imperial expansion. She is co-editor of the forthcoming Routledge Companion to the Novel, and contributes regularly to The Nation, Guardian, Dissent, Boston Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, Humanity, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Public Books.

Dr. DeGooyer’s lecture is supported by the Colloquium in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature, the Postcolonial Collective, the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts, and the English Department’s Rodney Baine Lecture Fund. 

The lecture is free and open to the public. It will be followed by a reception in the Park Hall Library.