Monday 12 May 2025

• 17:15 - The 2025 Manchester Lecture: ‘Cosmopoetics in an Age of Borders: Rabindranath Tagore, Oxford and the World
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 12:15 - Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:00 - English Faculty Early Career Forum Meeting: Professionalisation (opportunities and challenges)
  Dr Ethan A. Plaue, Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
  English Faculty Early Career Forum
• 17:30 - 'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
  Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 11:00 - From Doctorate to Trade Book: A Workshop in Experimental Biography with Harriet Baker
  Harriet Baker
• 16:45 - The Novel And/As/Of Information
  Ryan Ruby
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:00 - J.R.R. Tolkien at the BBC
  Gabriel Shenk (Signum University)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 19 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
  Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
  Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - "'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
  John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - Trees, Tales, and Tolkien: A Growing Environmental Consciousness from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings
  Andoni Cossio (Basque Country)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
  Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
  Sarah Cole
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Friday 30 May 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien and the Mystery of Literary Creation (Book launch)
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
  Marina McKay, Adam Guy
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
  Kamran Javadizadeh
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 6 June 2025

• 17:00 - Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
  Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:15 - In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
  Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 13 June 2025

• 17:00 - Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
  Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 20 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
  Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
  Tolkien seminars

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
  Registration closes 31 May
  Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)