Public Lecture

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Professor Joseph Alulis 

April 22nd at 6 PM - 2026

South Texas College  Mid-Valley Campus G-288

Will’n in Weslaco would like to sincerely thank the South Texas College Library for once again hosting our Public Lecture. 

We are honored to announce this year’s speaker will be Professor  Joseph Alulis (University of Chicago).

 Joe Alulis has a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago. He has published articles on Tocqueville, Lincoln, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, and the filmmaker Whit Stillman, and is co-editor of two collections of scholarly essays, Tocqueville’s Defense of Human Freedom (1993) and Shakespeare’s Political Pageant (1996). His most recent publication is “’To Make High Majesty Look Like Itself’: Shakespeare’s Richard II and the Nature of the Good Regime” (2018). He has held appointments at three area colleges, Loyola University of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and North Park University, where he was professor of politics and government and chair of the department. At North Park, his teaching responsibilities included American foreign policy, international politics, and the politics of the Middle East. His scholarly interests include political philosophy, American political thought, and the thought of Shakespeare, Tocqueville, Lincoln, Dostoevsky, and Saul Bellow.  Alulis joined the teaching staff of the Basic Program of Liberal Education for Adults in the University of Chicago’s Graham School in 1982 and in that position has taught many courses on Plato, Aristotle, political philosophy, history, literature, and much else.