

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: 2026 Spector Lecture - Robin Bernstein
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:30 pm
- **Event Description**: The annual Spector Lecture is the most prestigious scholarly lecture hosted by the Department of English.About this EventMcGill University's Department of English is thrilled to welcome Harvard Professor Robin Bernstein for the 2026 Spector Lecture "Fugitive Sentimentalism: The Forgotten Genius of H. E. Lewis, Negro Mesmerist."Bernstein's talk will be followed by a Q&amp;A.This event is free and in person. Everyone is welcome.Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the McGill Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies._ _ _Robin Bernstein is a cultural historian who focuses on race and performance, mainly in the US, from the nineteenth century to the present. She is the author of Freeman’s Challenge: The M**der That Shook America’s Original Pr*son for Profit, which she wrote with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Freeman’s Challenge won the Montaigne Medal and the PROSE Award for North American/US History; it also received the Nonfiction Honor for the Massachusetts Book Award. Bernstein’s previous book, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, won five awards and was runner-up for two more. In 2021, she co-won the William Riley Parker Prize, given for the year’s outstanding article in PMLA. Her public-facing work has appeared in the New York Times, the Zinn Education Project, the Chronicle of Higher Education, Inquest, and Teen Vogue. Bernstein teaches at Harvard University, where she is the Dillon Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality.robinbernsteinphd.com; @robinmbernsteinFor questions, please contact Camille Owens at camille.owens@mcgill.ca.Photo ©Kristin Reimer
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Montréal
- **state**: QC
- **country**: Canada
- **location**: Redpath Museum Auditorium
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- **full address**: Redpath Museum Auditorium, 859 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, Canada

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- **organizer**: Department of English - McGill University (https://allevents.in/org/department-of-english-mcgill-university/18332604)

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- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm
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