The Joanne Dempsey Memorial Lecture Series

In memory of the late USD Professor of English Joanne Dempsey, this biannual lecture series brings Renaissance scholars to the University of San Diego community.

Recent Lecturers:

2005    Richard Strier, University of Chicago

2003    Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales

2001    Joseph Wittreich, The Graduate School, City University of New York

1999    Diana Maddox, The Old Globe Theatre

1997    William Alfred, Harvard University

Joanne Thérèse Dempsey was born in Rockville Centre, New York on December 26, 1946 and died in San Diego, California on November 29, 1990. She graduated from Newton College of the Sacred Heart in 1968 and received her PhD in English and American Literature from Harvard University, with a dissertation on Milton’s Paradise Regained. She taught at the University of San Diego from 1980 until her death in 1990.