S.A. Yoder Memorial Lecture Series
The S.A. Yoder Lecture Series honors Dr. Samuel A. Yoder, a professor at GC from 1930 to 1935 and again from 1946 until his death in 1970. During his career, he was a Fulbright lecturer at Anatolia College in Greece, Smith-Mundt lecturer at the University of Hue in Vietnam, visiting professor at Taiwan University in Formosa, welfare officer under the United Nations in Egypt and GC Study-Service Term leader in Jamaica. Gifts to the series by his students and friends have made the endowed lecture possible.
Past guest lecturers
2012 —
Luis Urrea, author, Naperville, Illinois
2011—
Julia Spicher Kasdorf, poet and author, BelleFonte, Pennsylvania
- 2010 —
- Haven Kimmel, poet and author, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- 2010 —
- Sandra M. Gilbert, poet and author, Berkeley, California
- 2008 —
- Maurice Kilwein Guevara, poet, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 2008 —
- Brenda Cardenas, poet, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- 2008 —
- Marilyn Nelson, poet, Connecticut
- 2007 —
- Cornelius Eady, poet, Notre Dame, Indiana
- 2006 —
- B. H. Fairchild, poet, Claremont, California
- 2004 —
- Jean Janzen, poet, California
- 2003 —
- Li-Young Lee, Chinese-American poet, Chicago, Ill.
- 2002 —
- Sandra Birdsell, fiction, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Patrick Friesen, poet, British Columbia, Canada
- 2001 —
- Edwidge Danticat, fiction writer, Haiti/New York City, N.Y.
- 2000 —
- Nick Lindsay, poet, Edisto Island, S.C.
- 1999 —
- David Dabydeen, novelist & poet, England & Guyana
- 1998 —
- Donald Hall, poet, New Hampshire
- 1997 —
- Denise Levertov, poet, Seattle, Wash.
- 1996 —
- Jane Tompkins, critic, Duke University
- 1995 —
- Scott Russell Sanders, essayist, Bloomington, Ind.
- 1994 —
- Rudy Wiebe, novelist, Alberta, Canada
- 1993 —
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko, poet, Moscow
- 1993 —
- Gwendolyn Brooks, poet, Chicago, Ill.
- 1992 —
- Seamus Heaney, poet, Dublin, Ireland
- 1990 —
- Joyce Campion, actress, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- 1989 —
- William Stafford, poet, Oregon
- 1988 —
- Niyi Osundare, poet, Nigeria
- 1987 —
- Robert Detweiler, scholar, Emory University
- 1986 —
- Colleen J. McElroy, poet, University of Washington
- 1985 —
- Garrison Keillor, humorist, Minnesota
- 1984 —
- Madeleine L’Engle, fiction writer, New York City, N.Y.
- 1983 —
- Peter Fallon, poet, County Meath, Ireland
- 1982 —
- Jan Harold Brunvand, folklorist, University of Utah
- 1981 —
- Quince Duncan, novelist, Costa Rica
- 1980 —
- Eliot Wigginton, Foxfire editor, Appalachia
- 1979 —
- Nuruddin Farah, novelist, Somalia
- 1978 —
- Charles Forker, Shakespeare scholar, Indiana University
- 1977 —
- Lucille Beachy, associate editor of Newsweek, N.J.
- 1976 —
- Yorifumi Yaguchi, poet, Japan
- 1975 —
- Rudy Wiebe, novelist, University of Alberta, Canada
- 1974 —
- Tom Driver, critic, Union Theological Seminary
- 1973 —
- Eugene Nida, linguist, American Bible Society
- 1972 —
- Chad Walsh, poet, Beloit College
