The Spring 2012 Lionel Trilling Seminar will feature Morris Dickstein, Distinguished Professor of English and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, and author, most recently, of Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (2009). He will speak on "Changing Places: From the Reign of the Novel to the Rise of Film Culture in Post-War America." Responding will be Mark Greif, Assistant professor of Literary Studies at the New School, and Maria DiBattista, Professor of English at Princeton University.