Thursday 24 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - JRR Tolkien and GB Smith: Two Forgotten War Poets?
  Please note that John Garth can now not talk at this seminar as planned. The speaker will now be Stuart Lee
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 1
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 17:00 - Pre- and in-service teachers’ language attitudes towards Basque
  Mikel Gartziarena
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Re-envisioning Interculturality through Decolonial Options: A search for a new Ethics of Performance
  Rustom Bharucha (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Kent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - 'Discovering and Re-Fashioning the Self: The Apophatic and Encyclopaedic Journeys of Andrew Boorde (c. 1490-1549)
  Denis Renevey (Lausanne)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Johnson’s Vision of Indolence
  Joseph Turner (Christ Church)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Reading Group: Valerie Traub, 'Thinking Sex with the Early Moderns'
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ""Drafts": A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe’. A Roundtable with Bryony Randall, Hannah Sullivan, Olga Beloborodova, and Scott McCracken
  Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Deadpan in/as Black Aesthetics
  Tina Post (University of Chicago)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - From Acallam na Senórach to Agallamh na Seanórach: Structuring narratives and recycling texts in (early) modern Ireland
  Nina Cnockaert-Guillou (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 1 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - ‘Thinking With an Accent: Reframing Accent as Practice, Method, and Study’ / ‘Aphra Behn: Material Culture and Digital Humanities’
  Megumi Ohsumi, Jaquelyn Hahn
  English Graduate Forum

Monday 4 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Thinking Activism and Translation in the Twenty-First Century
  Georgie Fooks, Alyssa Ollivier-Tabukashvili
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:15 - Genres of Deep Time
  Aaron Rosenberg
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - A Perilous Task? The Making of the Old English Heptateuch
  Francis Leneghan
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
  Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 6 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Solidarity in Starving: Tsitsi Dangarembga’s 'Nervous Conditions' and the Emergence of Third World Feminism.
  Alys Moody (Bard)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 7 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:00 - Psychology and the individual in medieval Ireland
  Dr Elizabeth Boyle (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Enucleator venio, non pugnator": the uneven authority of pseudohistories in Gerald of Wales
  Jenyth Evans (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - From Iceland to the World: Translating Flateyjarbók
  Professor Alison Finlay (Birkbeck)
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Exploring Positive and Negative Sublime Affect in the Alps: Combining Traditional and Digital Scholarship
  Sally Bushell and Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster University)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Oxford Wells Lectures
  Professor Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Oisin Meenan (Wolfson College), Hannah Fagan (Mansfield College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 14 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The authors and styles of The Lord of the Rings
  Professor Giuseppe Pezzini (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 16:45 - What was New Sincerity?
  Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - From Dánta Grá to Dante: Irish–Italian genealogies, 1350–1850
  Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 18 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Dialect in Translation
  Kotryna Garanasvili (University of East Anglia)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 19 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Vernacular Theology in Thirteenth-Century Oxford: Robert Grosseteste and his Circle
  Nicholas Watson (Harvard University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - In-house talk on digital eighteenth century in Oxford with NICOLE POHL and JACK ORCHARD (Electronic Enlightenment)
  Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 14:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 14:00 - “The desire to supply good tales to my school children”: Charlotte Yonge's lifelong involvement in parochial education
  Dr Susan Walton (University of Hull)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 17:00 - “Desert wilds of India Africa”: Abergavenny Cymreigyddion Eisteddfod competitions and Empire, 1834–1853
  Marion Loeffler
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - A panel to mark the 25th anniversary of J. M. Coetzee’s influential novel 'Disgrace', with Derek Attridge (York) and Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Derek Attridge (University of York), Urmila Seshagiri (Tennessee)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 26 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - What are Poetical Essays?
  Dr Ted Tregear (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - 'Inspiration’s darling child': The Romantic Ode
  Paul Hamilton (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Sara Lopes Borga (St John's College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Allegory, Dystopia and Fiction in our Time
  Supriya Chaudhuri (Jadavpur)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 13:00 - C.S. Lewis’s Influence on The Lord of the Rings
  Michael Ward
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:15 - Breton dialect variation: An opportunity to reflect on the emergence and formation of a language
  Tanguy Solliec
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Beyond Cultural Difference: Australian Indigenous Literary and Creative Writing Practices as Sites of Knowledge Production
  Eugenia Flynn (RMIT, Melbourne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 2 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
  Carolyn Dever
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Roundtable - Cosmology, Ecology, Memory: New Comparative Perspectives on Ingeborg Bachmann
  Dr. Conor Brennan, Roberto Interdonato, Hannah Scheithauer
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The ‘Key-spring’ of The Lord of the Rings?
  Professor Stuart Lee (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Please note that this seminar has been postponed
  Ayelet Ben Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar