This lectureship was established in 1986 through the generosity of Carleton alumna Margaret C[lapp] Schuster ('38), of Rochester, Minnesota, in the names of herself and her late husband, Fred W. Schuster, a Carleton English major of the class of 1935.

Schuster Lectureships have been held by Richard Helgerson, Northrop Frye, Barbara Johnson, Barbara Packer, Stephen Greenblatt, Barbara Lewalski, Anne K. Mellor, Peter Brooks, Heather Dubrow, Geoff Dyer, Nicholas Grene, Christopher Ricks, Maria DiBattista, Richard Wolfson, Jean-Michel Deprats, David Porter, Noel Polk, Thadious M. Davis, William Kittredge, Robert S. Levine, and Frank Shuffelton. 

2012-13:

James Kincaid (University of Southern California)

             18-19 October

Siri Hustvedt (novelist and essayist)

               20-22 February

2011-12:

Nuruddin Farah (European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, and University of Minnesota)

             25-26 October

Laura Brown (Cornell University)

              19-20 January

Katherine Rowe (Bryn Mawr College)

              1-4 April

2010-11:

Pierre Bayard (University of Paris VIII)

            25 September–1 October

Karen Tei Yamashita (University of California, Santa Cruz)

            1–2 February

Louis Menand (Harvard University)

            14–15 April