Forest Park in St. Louis (photo courtesy of Frances Dickey)

T. S. Eliot International Summer School

The T. S. Eliot International Summer school brings together students and renowned scholars from around the world for a nine-day, immersive exploration of the life and work of Nobel Prize winning poet, critic, and dramatist T. S. Eliot. The dates for the 2025 Summer School are 5-13 July, and it will be held at Merton College. The 2025 Eliot Society conference will be held in Dublin from 2-5 July, so it will be possible to attend both gatherings!

Information about the 2024 Summer School is available at this link.

T. S. Eliot Studies Annual

The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual is the leading venue for critical reassessment of Eliot’s life and work in light of the ongoing publication of his oeuvre, including poems, prose, letters, and plays. 

Annual Meeting

The 45th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in St. Louis, Missouri, from 20-22 September 2024. Our Memorial Lecturer was Langdon Hammer, Niel Gray, Jr. Professor of English at Yale University.

The 44th Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society was held in Boston from 22-24 September, 2023. The Memorial Lecturer for the conference was Linda Gregerson, Caroline Walker Bynum Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. A recording of that lecture, “Eliot and Ignorance,” may be found here. In addition to our scholarly activities, we took a Sunday trip to visit the Eliot family’s summer home and environs in Gloucester.  The program is here. Photos from the meeting are here.

The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society took place from September 23-25, 2022, in St. Louis, Missouri. It featured seminars, panels, a film showing, and a plenary lecture titled “The People of 1922,” given by Douglas Mao, Russ Family Professor in the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University. The program is here.