Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" (video): This short video questions the popular understanding of this favorite Frost poem.
What are Poets for in a Difficult Time: This talk was part of a conference held in the wake of 9/11.
The Robert Ryan Lecture: The Irish Political Elegy (video): This lecture examines W. B. Yeats's "Easter 1916" and Seamus Heaney's "Casualty."
Sigma Tau Delta 2011 Address: The Common Wages of the Most Secret Heart: A toast to the inductees and members of Sigma Tau Delta.
Walden address to Class of 2014: The class of 2014 read Thoreau's Walden as their pre-freshperson text entering Ithaca College, and this lecture placed the book in that context.
Sigma Tau Delta 2016 Address: Exiles in Our Own Country: This year's induction to Sigma Tau Delta took place just after the 2016 national presidential election, and this lecture calls attention to that fact.
Ulysses: One Hundred Years On: James Joyce's Ulysses was published in 1922, and this Centennial lecture traces its controversial significance in the century since.