Tuesday 30 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - 'Both bene fals, they & they peynturys': Implicit and explicit critiques of visual culture in the Cloud-corpus' and 'Rewriting Heorot in American Fiction'
  Fred Morgan (Merton College, Oxford), Simon Heller (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - From Corpus to Canon. Editing and Translating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literatures in the British Long Eighteenth Century
  Dr Claire Gallien (Associate Professor English Department University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 1 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Modern Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Iris Pearson, Olivia Sutherland
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 1
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 17:15 - Autofiction and/as World Literature’
  Martha Swift (Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - 'Playing the Ten-Stringed Lyre': Psalter and Decalogue in the English Primers' and ‘All suche clytter clatter’?: Medieval devotional compilations after the Reformation’
  Audrey Southgate (University of Oxford), Hannah Schühle-Lewis (University of Kent)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Los and Enitharmon: Gender, Prophecy, and Division in Blake’s Fall
  Please note that the session will take place at 12:30 pm
  Jude Mahmoud (Kellogg College)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - What is literary history now? Recovering the premodern textual world in the 21st century
  Prof. Warren Boutcher (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - "Little Friend of All the World": Kipling’s Kim and International Adoption in Victorian British Culture
  Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Compilatory Form and Authorship in Richard Rolle and in Late-Medieval Religious Literature
  Tim Glover (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
  Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
  Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Modern Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Claire Barnes, Marianna Leszczyk
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers
  Deborah Denenholz Morse (William & Mary)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - 'Negotiating shame through the ‘harlot saint’ Thais' and 'Medieval Penitential Piety and the Virtues of Debt Suretyship'
  Alicia Smith (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge), Nancy Jiang (University of Warwick)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Fugitive Histories and Gothic Pursuits: The Manhunt Narrative in Romantic-Era Fiction
  Michael Greaney (Lancaster University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and (title tbc)
  Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Battle of the Birds: William Colenso, Walter Buller, Witi Ihimaera, and the materiality of avian fables
  ***lunchtime seminar, English Faculty***
  Kaori Nagai (University of Kent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 28 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Patience, the Middle English Physiologus, and the deep sea of experience
  Alex Paddock (Keble College, Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Lent to Copy”: Art Rentals in the Age of Jane Austen
  Prof Janine Barchas (University of Texas)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Desire for Marriage'
  Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 3
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Vernon Lee’s Critical Irrealism [on Hauntings]
  Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Ghost Kings
  Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Three on the Arun: William Collins, George Smith, Charlotte Smith
  Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - '“The Freedom to be Wrong”: Reading Teju Cole with Chris Kraus'
  Please note that the lecture by Prof Tim Bewes on 5 June, 6-7.30 pm, will be in New College
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'Chronotopic Forms in Recent Fiction by Women'
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Early Modern Literature Graduate Forum social
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 12 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Modern Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Zana Mody, Aryehi Bhushan
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 4
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 17:15 - How We Hate Now: Xenophobia in the Age of Anti-Racism
  Madhumita Lahiri (U of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar