Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Monday 19 January 2025

Book Launch: A Doll's House, Men of Honour, When We Dead Awaken
Date: 19 January 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Gaye Kynoch
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 8
Organisers: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford), Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
Host: Mary Katherine Newman (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 20 January 2025

Norfolk Broads, or Discovering medieval women with twentieth-century collectives
Date: 20 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Stacie Vos (U of California, San Diego)
Venue Details: room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Tobacco in Arcadia: Early Stuart Patronesses & Colonial Knowledge'
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Lauren Working (Lauren Working)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: the T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Keats's Broken Urn
Date: 20 January 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Kelvin Everest (University of Liverpool)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organiser: Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 January 2025

‘Chivalry is a code for men willing to fight’: medievalism, masculinity and the modern far-right
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rachel Moss (Northampton)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Bad books in medieval Bristol: alchemy, liturgy and Thomas Norton’s ordinals
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Joe Stadolnik (U of Chicago)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

How to Disagree: Books, Authors, and Early Modern Debates
Date: 3 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:45
Speaker s: Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Emma Smith (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Schwarzman Centre, Room 10.019
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Austen in Volumes
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford), Prof Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 February 2025

Power and conversion in middle English romance
Date: 10 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Kirsty Bolton (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2025

‘The Wolves of Toleration in Early Modern Religious Controversy’
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Karen Edwards (University of Exeter)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Trans studies and medieval literatures
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: François.e Charmaille (University of Cambridge), Prof. Gareth Evans (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: THE MAISON FRANÇAISE
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

‘... this brilliant assemblage ... ’: The Sociability of Pierce Egan’s Life in London (1821)
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Simon Kevosi (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Prof. Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2025

‘Motes of gold’: early English poetry and its modern recollection
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: Professor Daniel Wakelin (University of Oxford), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2025

'"As if the dead the living should exceed": Unfeeling in Venus and Adonis'
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Dr Michal Zechariah (University of Oxford)
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: T.S. Eliot lecture theatre
Organisers: Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
Hosts: TBA

Poetic Fascination and the Metaphysics of Metre
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Gregory Leadbetter (Birmingham City University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Prof. Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA