Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Tuesday 10 February 2026

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

Tolkien's Animism
Date: 10 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Erik Jampa Andersson
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 February 2026

‘On First Noticing Bergman and Kafka'
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Professor Amit Chaudhuri (Novelist and Poet)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Fiction and Other Minds' Seminar': Embodied Words and Creative Worlds
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker s: Dr Nadine Sigalov, Professor Kate Rossmanith
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10, St Anne's College
Organiser: OCCT
Hosts: TBA

Methodology Workshop
Date: 11 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 February 2026

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 16 February 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 February 2026

‘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

Wednesday 18 February 2026

'John Ashbery's Boredom' and ‘Serially Late: the Long Poems of Walt Whitman and Nathaniel Mackey’
Date: 18 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Ben Philipps, Lochie Springett
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 23 February 2026

OCCT Discussion Group: On the Trail of the Detective: Testing a New Comparative Methodology in World Literature
Date: 23 February 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Oliver Eccles (UCL)
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 February 2026

‘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

Writerly Hate
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Dr Thomas Leonard-Roy (Università degli Studi di Sassari)
Venue Details: Room 00.056, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Beauty and Peril and Sorrow: A Web in Tolkien's Thinking
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Anders Stenström
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Venue Details: Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 25 February 2026

Interdisciplinary Colloquium
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker
Venue Details: Room 10.302, Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

‘James Schuyler's Romanticism: “A little trick I picked up from Bill Coleridge”’
Date: 25 February 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Eric Lindstrom
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 February 2026

Mariusz Szczygieł and Antonia Lloyd-Jones with Linden Editions
Date: 27 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Mariusz Szczygieł, Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 March 2026

Shut Up and Write (or Translate)!
Date: 2 March 2026, 14:00 - 17:00
Speaker
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Venue Details: Seminar Room 10
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2026

Modes of Remembering in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Fictional World
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mina Lukić Gunner (University of Belgrade)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

'"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

Wednesday 4 March 2026

"A learner, rather": Did Joyce Really "Teach Us How to Read Ulysses?" and '"Gilding What’s Eyesore": Visual Poetics and Hallucinatory Worlds in Sylvia Plath’s Flower Poems'
Date: 4 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:30
Speaker s: Henry Barlow, Alice Sholto-Douglas
Venue Details: Room 10.424, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 9 March 2026

OCCT Discussion Group: Teaching the Coloniality of the Climate Crisis in Translation: Indonesian and Dutch Flood Narratives
Date: 9 March 2026, 12:45 - 14:00
Speaker : Lucelle Pardoe (UCL)
Venue Details: Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 March 2026

Habitatio est omen - or: like land, like people
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Thomas Honegger (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
Venue: Corpus Christi College, Merton Street OX1 4JF
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

"The Universal Vibration of Life": William Bartram's Swarm Ecology
Date: 10 March 2026, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Sheila Byers (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Room 00.079, Schwarzman Centre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 March 2026

'Moments of unselfing: Rachel Cusk, Amit Chaudhuri, and the new impersonal'
Date: 11 March 2026, 17:15 - 19:00
Speaker : Agota Marton
Venue: All Souls College, High Street OX1 4AL
Venue Details: Wharton Room
Organisers: Professor Peter Boxall (University of Oxford), Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA