The Isherwood-Bachardy Lectures
“Libraries as Communities of Desire”
The Isherwood-Bachardy 2025–2026 lecture was delivered by Claire Dederer on March 25, 2026. Dederer is an essayist, critic, and author of Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma.
Claire Dederer© Stanton J. Stephens
The Isherwood-Bachardy Lectures at the Huntington Library allow distinguished academics, writers and artists to initiate new discussion inspired by the personal and artistic achievements of life companions Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy.
Past Isherwood-Bachardy Lecturers include Edward Mendelson, Pico Iyer, Tom Ford, Edmund White, and Armistead Maupin.