Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture

Dara Horn, Award-Winning Author and Journalist

   

October 21, 2025
7:00 PM
McGuire Hall

Dara Horn is the author of seven books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), the Passover-themed graphic novel One Little Goat (Norton 2025), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present (Norton 2021). 

She is the recipient of three National Jewish Book Awards, among other honors, and she was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize, and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. Her books have been selected as New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s 25 Best Books of the Decade, and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year, and have been translated into thirteen languages. Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Tablet, and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications. 

Horn received her doctorate in comparative literature from Harvard University, studying Yiddish and Hebrew. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia.

Horn is also the founder and president of a new non-profit, The Tell Institute, devoted to educating the broader American public about Jewish civilization, including in K-12 schools and other channels. 

About the Lecture

The Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture was established by the Jerome S. Cardin family to foster exploration of topics in the humanities pertinent to the Jewish and Christian traditions, particularly in the area of Jewish-Christian relations. The annual lecture, hosted by the Center for the Humanities at Loyola University Maryland, is open to the region’s academic and religious communities and the general public.

The event is free and open to the public, but advance registration is required.

For more information about the history of the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture, including past speakers, please consult the Celebrating the History of Cardin webpage. 

If you require additional accommodations, please contact Disability and Accessibility Services at das@loyola.edu.