Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Talks:

Monday 2 June 2025

Week 6: English Faculty Early Career Forum Cover Letter Workshop
Date: 2 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Seminar Room B, Faculty of English
Organisers: Dr Felicity Brown (University of Oxford), Dr Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Messy Chaucer
Date: 3 June 2025, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: Professor Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Burns (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Tom Jones (St Andrews)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

“The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
Date: 4 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Marina McKay, Adam Guy
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

Thursday 5 June 2025

The National Poetry Crisis
Date: 5 June 2025, 16:45 - 17:45
Speaker : Kamran Javadizadeh
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Cohen Quad (Walton St)
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 6 June 2025

Tolkien the post-Christian? A Proposition
Date: 6 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Tom Emanuel (University of Glasgow)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Papers by Dr Felicity Brown, Dr Sean Geddes and Dr Leah Veronese
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Felicity Brown, Sean Geddes, Leah Veronese
Venue: Merton College, Merton Street OX1 4JD
Venue Details: TS Eliot Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford), Professor Bart Van Es (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

"Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor Fiona Stafford (University of Oxford), Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 June 2025

Postgraduate Panel
Date: 12 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:00
Speaker s: Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Venue Details: Downstairs Seminar Room
Organisers: Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 June 2025

Imitative Translations of Beowulf: Tolkien, Lehmann, and McCully
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Eliot Vale (University of Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Saturday 14 June 2025

Oxford Translation Day 2025
Date: 14 June 2025, 9:00 - 18:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: St Anne's College, Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room A
Organisers: Aryehi Bhushan (University of Oxford), Olivia Sutherland (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Helen Small (University of Oxford), Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

, “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
Date: 18 June 2025, 12:00 - 14:00
Speaker : Julian Murphet
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

Thursday 19 June 2025

Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Date: 19 June 2025, 12:30 - 13:30
Speaker : Daniel Hartley (Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Prof. Pablo Mukherjee (Wolfson), Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 June 2025

The Sub-Creation Theory of J.R.R. Tolkien: Literary Criticism or Theology?
Date: 20 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christopher Snyder (Mississippi State University)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: SUMMER COMMON ROOM
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 24 June 2025

One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
Date: 24 June 2025, 9:00 - 17:00
Speaker : Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)
Venue Details: English Faculty, Oxford
Organiser: Dr Caroline Anjali Ritchie (Exeter College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA