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English department
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
 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
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