As an English and/or Film & Television Studies major, you will have numerous opportunities to engage with many illustrious guests, who meet our students where they study, in the classroom, and in small, exclusive majors events, which give our students personal connections and experience working with leaders in their fields.
Upcoming and Recent Guest Speakers
Fall 2026
Dr. Michael J. Blouin, author and professor of English and Humanities at Milligan University and UVM alumnus, 2006, will attend classes and discuss his recently published new book on Edgar Allan Poe and politics.
Dr. Richie Hofmann, poet and lecturer at the University of Chicago, is the recipient of a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 2025 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His new book is THE BRONZE ARMS (Knopf, 2026); previous collections are A Hundred Lovers (2022) and Second Empire (2015). His poems appear in The Paris Review, The New Yorker, Poetry, and The Yale Review. Dr. Hofmann will meet with students in class and provide a public reading.
Seth Warren-Crow is a sound designer and composer for theatre, dance, performance art, and digital media who teaches at Texas Tech. Seth Crow is a collaborator on The Group Biography: a more-than-human audio performance; he is composing and spatializing immersive audio for headphone and multi-speaker environments. Seth will participate in a week-long workshop with a class of students.
Adam York Gregory is an artist, writer, digital animator, and filmmaker. His work has been produced on every continent (aside from Antarctica). He works largely in the context of Live Art and Theatre. Adam York Gregory is a collaborator on projection material and speculative archival imagery, and is responsible for digital animation and projection mapping used in The Group Biography: A More-Than-Human Audio Performance. Adam will participate in a week-long workshop with a class of students.
Jon Kilik is a leading independent producer and proud UVM Class of 1970 alumnus. Over his career, he has collaborated with some of cinema's most acclaimed directors, including Spike Lee, Julian Schnabel, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Bennett Miller, Jim Jarmusch, and Oliver Stone, and produced the first four films of the Hunger Games series.
His credits include the Oscar-nominated Do The Right Thing, Malcolm X, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Babel, Foxcatcher, Before Night Falls, Dead Man Walking, and A Bronx Tale, among many others.
Jon will engage with students with multiple class visit.
Spring 2026
Steve Woloshen
Naomi Uman
Alison Bechdel
Bill Morrison
Isabella Hammad
Esmey Jimenez
Rubidium Wu
Dan Chiasson
Brittany Patterson
Aysegul Savas
Leslie Sainz
John Bonanni
Yasmin Zaher
Jon Kilik
Fall 2025
Kasimir Burgess
Erica Heilman
Alireza Taheri
Meera Lee
Burgess Brown
Anna Van Dine
Lexi Krupp
Nancy Savoca
Richard Guay
Katie Peterson
Wade Gardener
Ada Limón
Ben Silberfarb
Adiah Gholston
Previous Speakers
Luis Guzmán
Miles Millar
Alfred Gough
Jamil Jan Kochai
Merk Nguyen
Julian Flavin
Alrjoob
LaPaglia
Barbara Donahue
Erica Heilman
Henri Cole
Brad Lichtenstein
Duncan Murdoch
Jesse Huffman
John Garth
Elena Buckley Warren
Iva Radivojevic
Stephanie Cuepo Wobby
Kyle Norris
Braden Duemmler
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
Josefina Buschmann
Pietro Bianchi
Martin Benchimol
Camille Dungy
Debra Zimmerman
Lori Singer
Victor Nunez
Meg Reynolds
Rob Rice
Jude Chehab
Naomi Uman
Actors from the London Stage
Sasha Waters
Gala Hernandez
Sarah Audsley
Maya Hawke
Sierra Urich
Peter Orner
Kevin Bay
Amitav Ghosh
Ingrid Walker
Maryam Tafakory
Farshid Kazemi
Matthew Olzmann
Jenn Habel
Heidi Levitt
Maria Headley
Slavoj Žižek
Fabio Vighi
Marsalis Jackson