Wednesday 13 May 2015

• 17:15 - Bright Beacons in Beowulf and Genesis
  Hannah Bailey (Balliol)
  Medieval English

Wednesday 20 May 2015

• 17:15 - Why is Emotion the property of Style? An Etiology
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English

Wednesday 27 May 2015

• 17:15 - Landes to fela: Geography, Topography and Place in The Battle of Maldon
  Daniel Thomas (Wadham College, Oxford)
  Medieval English

Wednesday 3 June 2015

• 17:15 - Being Curious in Late Medieval England
  TBA
  Medieval English

Monday 8 June 2015

• 17:00 - What was Late-Medieval English Poetry
  Seth Lerer (University of California at San Diego)
  Medieval English

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 17:15 - 'Touching Images’
  Katie Walter (Sussex)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 17:15 - ‘The Southwark Connection: Chaucer, Gower, and William of Wykeham’
  Sebastian Sobecki (Groningen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2016

• 17:15 - ‘Explaining the Vikings in Post-Conquest England’
  Eleanor Parker (Independent scholar)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 17:15 - ‘Performing Mystical Eros’
  Sarah Salih (KCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 17:15 - ‘Thinking about Feeling: Text, Emotion, and Audience’
  Carolyne Larrington (St John’s)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 17:15 - ‘Constructing a Genre: Eyewitness Writing in the Middle Ages’
  Jo Bellis (Merton)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 17:15 - ‘The Metapoetics of Chaucer’s Messengers and the French Tradition’
  Juliette Vuille (Geneva/Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Friday 6 May 2016

• 17:00 - O'Donnell Lecture 2016: "Chrètien's British Yvain in England and Wales"
  Professor Erich Poppe (Marburg University)

Saturday 7 May 2016

• 09:00 - People-Powered Medicine: A Symposium on Medicine and the Public, 19th Century to Present
  TBA

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:30 - Medical Authority, (pseudo)Science and the Explained Supernatural in Late Victorian Female Gothic Fiction
  Dr Helena Ifill (University of Sheffield)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 17:15 - ‘Gloomy Forecasts and Impending Disasters: The Blowing of the Wind in the Twelve Nights of Christmas.’
  Marilena Cesario (Queen’s University, Belfast)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 27 April 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: "Readers and Readings"
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Erica Lombard (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:15 - ‘Forms and Manuscripts: Reading Later Middlle English Verse.’
  Daniel Sawyer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 4 May 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Kamila Shamsie
  Kamila Shamsie, Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 17:15 - ‘Elves, Exorcism, and Medical Uses of the Liturgy in Anglo-Saxon England.’
  Emily Kesling (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Bernardine Evaristo
  Bernardine Evaristo, Zoe Norridge (KCL), Marsha Hutchinson (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 17:15 - ‘The Wooing of our Lord and the House without Walls.’
  Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 18 May 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Daljit Nagra
  Daljit Nagra, Rachael Gilmour (QMUL)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 17:15 - ‘Performing the Fear of God in Some Old English Homilies.’
  Alice Jorgensen (Trinity College, Dublin)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: D-Empress Dianne Regisford (performance)
  Dianne Regisford, Erica Lombard (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 17:15 - ‘Chaucer’s Tears.’
  Barry Windeatt (University of Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 1 June 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Nadifa Mohamed
  Nadifa Mohamed, Kate Haines
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Aminatta Forna
  Aminatta Forna, Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Thursday 15 June 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: Editors and contributors, The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British Writing
  Various Speakers
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Monday 26 June 2017

• 17:00 - Great Writers Inspire at Home: M. NourbeSe Philip (panel discussion)
  M. NourbeSe Philip, Professor Dame Marina Warner, Matthew Reynolds (University of Oxford), Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Great Writers Inspire at Home

Wednesday 27 September 2017

• 19:45 - Contagion Cabaret
  Various Speakers

Thursday 28 September 2017

• 09:00 - The Making of the Humanities VI
  Prof. Elisabeth Décultot (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Dr Shamil Jeppie (University of Cape Town), Professor Peter Mandler (Professor of Modern Cultural History, University of Cambridge )

Wednesday 11 October 2017

• 17:15 - Poetic style between English and Latin
  Andy Orchard, Jenni Nuttall
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2017

• 17:15 - Old English verse
  Francis Leneghan, Mark Atherton
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2017

• 17:30 - From the Andes to the Outback: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
  Dr Helen Cowie (University of York)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: From the Andes to the Outback: Acclimatising Alpacas in the British Empire
  Dr Helen Cowie (University of York)

Wednesday 25 October 2017

• 17:15 - Time
  Heather O’Donoghue, Annie Sutherland
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 November 2017

• 17:15 - Things
  Nicholas Perkins, Laura Varnam
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2017

• 17:30 - The Good Places of Sleep: Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fictions and Sleep Research
  Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff University)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: The Good Places of Sleep: Nineteenth-Century Utopian Fictions and Sleep Research
  TBA

Wednesday 8 November 2017

• 17:15 - Knowledge
  Mishtooni Bose, Kantik Ghosh
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 November 2017

• 17:15 - Medievalism
  Helen Leith Spencer, Carolyne Larrington
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2017

• 17:30 - Infectious Ideas: Mechanisms of Transmission in the 19th Century
  Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Infectious Ideas: Mechanisms of Transmission in the 19th Century
  Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017

• 17:15 - Heresy and literary language
  Elizabeth Solopova, Vincent Gillespie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 November 2017

• 17:00 - Interdisciplinary lecture in medieval studies: ‘“Beorhtre bote”: Beowulf and the Satisfactions of Coin and Flesh’
  at 5.00 on Tuesday 28 November in the Taylorian
  Professor Katherine O'Brien O’Keeffe (Clyde and Evelyn Slusser Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley; Eastman Professor 2017-18)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 17:15 - ‘In Memory of John Burrow’ -
  Thorlac Turville-Petre (Nottingham), Helen Leith Spencer (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2018

• 16:30 - ‘Time and Time Again: Strategies of Temporal Mixing in Early Welsh and English Poetry’
  Dr David Callandar (Dept of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Cambridge)
  Celtic Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:15 - ‘How To Make A Reader’
  John Thompson (Belfast)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018

• 16:30 - ‘Europa Celtica: Celtic National Origins in Early-Modern Antiquarianism’
  Ian Stewart (London School of Economics)
  Celtic Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2018

• 17:30 - Time Tribes: How the Railways Made Communities (1840-1900)
  Professor Oliver Zimmer (University of Oxford)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Time Tribes: How the Railways Made Communities (1840-1900)
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Professor Oliver Zimmer (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Aesthetics of Enigma in Some Medieval Irish Voyage-Tales’
  Mark Williams
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 1 February 2018

• 16:30 - ‘Brut Ieuan Brechfa: A Welsh Poet Writes the Early Middle Ages’
  Dr Ben Guy (Robinson College, Cambridge)
  Celtic Seminar

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Category of the Poetic and the Work of Roger Bacon’ AND ‘Thirteenth Century Scribal Readers of Poema Morale’
  Daniel Orton, James Sargan
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2018

• 16:30 - ‘“In this the Egypt of our island”: Reflecting Jewish History in Medieval Ireland’
  Dr Elizabeth Boyle (National University of Ireland, Maynooth)
  Celtic Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2018

• 17:30 - Normalcy Interrogated: Prosthetic Hand Users in Victorian Sensation-Fiction Narratives
  Dr Ryan Sweet (University of Leeds)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: Normalcy Interrogated: Prosthetic Hand Users in Victorian Sensation-Fiction Narratives
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Dr Ryan Sweet (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Study of Old English in Germany 1550–1750’
  Winfried Rudolph (Göttingen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 16:30 - ‘Gwenogvryn Evans and his private press’
  Angela Grant (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Celtic Seminar

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Chaucer’s Decameron and the Wife of Bath’s Tale: Why Do Literary History?’
  Fred Biggs (UConn)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2018

• 16:30 - ‘“Throwing The Welsh Language Head Over Heels”: William Owen Pughe's Revolutionary Orthography’
  Dr Rhys Kaminski-Jones (Aberystwyth)
  Celtic Seminar
• 17:00 - The Idea of 'the Reading Public': Literary History or Cultural Criticism?
  Stefan Collini (University of Cambridge)

Friday 23 February 2018

• 17:30 - The End of Journalism, Part I
  Stig Abell (Visiting Professor of Creative Media)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 17:30 - The End of Journalism, Part II
  Stig Abell (Visiting Professor of Creative Media)

Tuesday 27 February 2018

• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: ‘Sexo-Aesthetic Inversion’: Transgender Subjectivities in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Science
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter)
• 17:30 - ‘Sexo-Aesthetic Inversion’: Transgender Subjectivities in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Science
  Dr Jana Funke (University of Exeter)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 17:15 - ‘A Continental Poet in Tenth-Century England: Re-Thinking Frithegod’s Breviloquium’ AND ‘Old English Dithematic Names and the Reliability of Sieversian Metrics’
  Colleen Curran, Rafael J. Pascual
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 1 March 2018

• 16:30 - Title TBC
  Kristyna Syrova (St John’s College, Oxford)
  Celtic Seminar
• 17:30 - Hilary 2018 Professor of Poetry Lecture: 'Like, Elizabeth Bishop'
  Professor Simon Armitage (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 March 2018

• 16:30 - ‘Rewriting the Mabinogi’ (including a reading of his new verse rendering of the Fourth Branch)
  Prof. Matthew Francis (Aberystwyth)
  Celtic Seminar

Wednesday 25 April 2018

• 17:15 - ‘“Longyng” for Health: Blood, Love, and Honey in A Talking of the Love of God’
  Daniel McCann (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 17:15 - Reading Bass Culture: Linton Kwesi Johnson in conversation with Paul Gilroy
  Linton Kwesi Johnson, Paul Gilroy

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Asser and the Writing of Anglo-Saxon Charters’
  Rob Gallagher (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Monday 7 May 2018

• 17:30 - Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction
  Professor Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018: Gone but not Forgotten: Coming to Grips with Extinction
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Harriet Ritvo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Domesday in Disguise’
  Jessica Berenbeim (Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 17:00 - O'Donnell Lecture 2018 - Cheapside in Wales: Textiles and Commodities in Medieval Welsh Poetry
  Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘Mapping Power in Later Anglo-Saxon England’
  Helen Appleton (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Trinity Term 2018 Professor of Poetry Lecture - "Unseasonal Produce: Winter Words in Various Moods and Metres"
  Professor Simon Armitage (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 May 2018

• 17:30 - Sympathy limits in Daniel Deronda
  Dr Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London )
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018: Sympathy limits in Daniel Deronda
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London)

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Thirteenth-Century Scribal Readers of Poema morale’ & ‘Scribes, Science, and the Space of the Page’
  James Sargan (Oxford), Mari-Liisa Varila (Turku)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 17:15 - ‘The Life Course in the Old English Rhyming Poem’
  Harriet Soper (Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 June 2018

• 17:30 - Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century Seminars in Trinity Term 2018: ‘What is health? It is chocolate!’: Chocolate, medicine, and writing in nineteenth-century France
  Drinks will be served after each seminar. All welcome, no booking required.
  Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow)
• 17:30 - ‘What is health? It is chocolate!’: Chocolate, medicine, and writing in nineteenth-century France
  Dr Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow )
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:15 - Conception - 'Christ’s adventures: vernacularity and discovery’ & ‘“The Moderhede of Kynd Love”: conception, labour, and delivery in the theology of Julian of Norwich’
  Mishtooni Bose, Vincent Gillespie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:15 - Narrative - ‘Suspense in saga narrative’ & ‘Narrative structure in the Lais of Marie de France and the Four Branches of the Mabinogi’
  Heather O’Donoghue, Mark Williams
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 18 October 2018

• 17:00 - England's Insular Imaginings: Inaugural Lecture of Professor Lorna Hutson, Merton Professor of English Literature
  Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 17:30 - Science and the Mutual Improvement Society
  Dr Lauren Weiss (University of Strathclyde), Prof Kirstie Blair (University of Strathclyde)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 17:00 - Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 1: Shakespeare Without a Life
  Professor Margreta de Grazia
• 17:15 - The language of Middle English literature - ‘“Purging the grosser provincialisms”: dialects and standards in Middle English’ & ‘Correcting Chaucer’
  Simon Horobin, Devani Singh
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 2: Shakespeare's Timeline
  Professor Margreta de Grazia
• 17:15 - Editing Scripture - ‘Towards a new edition of the Wycliffite Bible’ & ‘Editing the Old Testament lectionary’
  Elizabeth Solopova, Cosima Gillhammer
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 17:00 - Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 3: Sorting Shakespeare's Archive
  Professor Margreta de Grazia
• 17:15 - Old English poetry - ‘The Harrowing of Heorot’ & ‘Did the Anglo-Saxons do intertextuality? Beowulf and Andreas reconsidered’
  Daniel Thomas, Francis Leneghan
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Psychiatric Injury and the Hysterical Woman
  Dr Imogen Goold (University of Oxford), Dr Catherine Kelly (University of Bristol)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lecture 4: Shakespeare's Dateless Sonnets
  Professor Margreta de Grazia
• 17:15 - Chaucerian obscenity - ‘What does swyve mean in Chaucer?’ & ‘Chaucerian censorship and absences’
  Helen Barr, Mary Flannery
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 17:30 - Professor of Poetry Lecture: 'Damned if he Does and Damned if he Doesn't? Dilemmas and Decisions in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'
  Professor Simon Armitage (University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - Literature and Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press: The Literary Doctor in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
  Dr Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 17:15 - Retelling Scripture - ‘The originality of the Orrmulum’ & ‘Old Testament translations in Icelandic’
  Laura Ashe, Siân Grønlie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 January 2019

• 17:30 - Monstrous Voices: (Female) Speaking Automata, Mind Science and Mass Mediation in Late-Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
  Prof Anne-Julia Zwierlein (University of Regensburg)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 17:30 - Dickens’s Loneliness
  Dr Ushashi Dasgupta (University of Oxford)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 17:30 - "A Monkey into a Man": Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and the Making of an Evolutionary Icon
  Professor Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Friday 10 May 2019

• 17:00 - ‘When is Variation a Dialect? The Case of Old Irish’
  David Stifter
  O’Donnell Lecture
• 17:30 - 'Truth, Lies and Videotape: Drawing the line between acceptable artifice and unacceptable deception'
  Samir Shah
  Visiting Professor of Creative Media Lectures: ‘Ways of Seeing: practice and theory in factual media'

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:30 - Mercury’s Perihelion and the Donald
  Samir Shah
  Visiting Professor of Creative Media Lectures: ‘Ways of Seeing: practice and theory in factual media'

Tuesday 14 May 2019

• 17:30 - Binding and Embodiment: Oliver Lodge, Physics, and the Book
  Dr Jim Mussell (University of Leeds)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 17:30 - ‘When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer’
  Professor Simon Armitage (University of Oxford)
  Professor of Poetry Lecture

Friday 17 May 2019

• 09:30 - CONFERENCE: Mind Reading 2019: Adolescence, Literature, and Mental Health
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 28 May 2019

• 17:30 - Nervous mimicry: performing paralysis in nineteenth-century culture
  Dr Heather Tilley (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Tuesday 11 June 2019

• 17:30 - Victor Frankenstein, the Chemist
  Professor Sharon Ruston (University of Lancaster)
  Science, Medicine and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Sunday 14 July 2019

• 09:00 - Medical Humanities Summer School 2019
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 17:30 - “The Place was all Eye”: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Scottish Tour Revisited
  Prof Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:15 - Arabic Mathematics, Divination, and Geomancy in the Knight's Tale and Troilus and Criseyde
  Shazia Jagot (University of York)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 October 2019

• 12:30 - Toward a Theatre of the Aesthetic
  Dr David Taylor (St Hugh's College)
• 17:15 - Text-Image Alignment in Oxford, Bodleian MS Douce 104 (Piers Plowman): Articulation, Proximal Allusion, and Pre-Drawing
  Stephen Shepherd (Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, Loyola Marymount University, LA)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:30 - 'The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time' - Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
  Professor Helen Small

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 09:00 - (SOLD OUT) Old English Metre and Literary Study: An overview of Half a Century's Work
  Professor R D Fulk (Indiana University)
  Anglo-Saxon Metre and Literary Studies
• 17:15 - Old English Metre and Literary Study: An Overview of Half a Century's Work
  R D Fulk (University of Indiana)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Monday 4 November 2019

• 12:30 - Into the Wood: Dante, Byron, James in "Ravenna" (1875)
  Dr Tamara Follini (University of Cambridge)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 5 November 2019

• 17:30 - An Unruly Tongue: Boswell's Scottish Dictionary and Eighteenth-Century Lexicography
  Dr Taylor Walle (Washington & Lee University)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:15 - Reading Recipes for Making Parchment
  Dr Hannah Ryley (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 17:30 - Romantic children's literature: 'wandering in the wilds' with Charles and Mary Lamb
  Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 13:00 - Confirmation of Status Session
  TBA
• 17:15 - 'Vernacular Instructional Texts and the Genesis of Piers Plowman' and ‘Glossing the Wycliffite Psalms’
  Thomas Kittel (University of Oxford), Audrey Southgate (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - 'The Art of Erosion' - Inaugural Lecture from Professor of Poetry
  Alice Oswald (Poet)
  Professor of Poetry Lectures

Tuesday 19 November 2019

• 17:30 - From songbooks to sex education': an eighteenth-century servants' library
  Dr Melanie Bigold (Univeristy of Cardiff)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:15 - 'What is the Point? Punctuating Performance in the Cleopatra Ancrene Wisse' and ‘”Eternity crossing the current of time”: reading anchoritic literature with T. S. Eliot’
  Samira Lindstedt (University of Oxford), Alicia Smith (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Friday 22 November 2019

• 12:00 - 'Getting Your Writing Out There' Afternoon
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 26 November 2019

• 17:30 - Tennyson, Burke, and the Sublimity of Song
  Dr Michael Sullivan
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 17:15 - [CANCELLED] Vernacular Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Aesthetics and Power (chaired by Laura Ashe)
  EVENT CANCELLED
  Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:15 - [CANCELLED] Writing Medieval Lives
  EVENT CANCELLED
  Dr Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 12:00 - The "Story" in Henry James' "The Art of Fiction"
  Prof Philip Horne (University College London)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Monday 20 January 2020

• 13:00 - • A Guide to the Transfer of Status
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - • A Guide to the Transfer of Status
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 13:15 - Flat, Round, Hidden: Character and Type in the Middle English Popular Romances AND Tomb Raiders: Christianising Ovid in the Middle Ages
  Please note the new day and time!
  Rebecca Menmuir, Lucy Brookes
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - "To Tirzah" or, William Blake's changes of mind
  Dr Nicholas Shrimpton (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:30 - Enlightenment, Information, and the Copernican Delay: A Venture into the History of Knowledge
  Dr. Cliff Siskin (Henry W & Albert A Berg Prof of English & American Literature)

Tuesday 28 January 2020

• 12:30 - “Enlightenment, Information, and the Copernican Delay: A Venture into the History of Knowledge”
  Dr. Cliff Siskin (Henry W & Albert A Berg Prof of English & American Literature)
• 13:15 - The Dynastic Drama of Beowulf
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Francis Leneghan (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Pilgrims and Cold Earth Wanderers
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 17:30 - The Lost Traveller's Dream: Angels, Spectres, Shadows
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 13:15 - Water, Wetlands and Hagiographic Culture in Medieval East Anglia
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Rebecca Pinner (University of East Anglia)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - "How the devil made Lord Byron"
  Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:30 - A Fearful Journey: Lions and Tygers
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 17:30 - Spiraling through Eternity in Nets and Trees
  Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)

Tuesday 11 February 2020

• 13:15 - Medieval English: Representation and Reality
  Please note the new day and time!
  Professor Tim William Machan (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Into the Archives: working on eighteenth-century espistolary networks projects
  Various Speakers

Friday 14 February 2020

• 13:00 - MSt Dissertation Workshop
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 13:15 - Inside and Outside The Battle of Maldon
  Please note the new day and time!
  Dr Mark Atherton (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 February 2020

• 13:15 - CANCELLED - Reading and Writing Early English Environments: Texts, Minds, and Material Matter
  Cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Mike Bintley (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - CANCELLED - 'Laughter, Literature and Eighteenth-century Philosophy'
  Cancelled due to industrial action
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kate Davison (University of Sheffield)

Friday 28 February 2020

• 13:00 - A Guide to the Viva
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 12:30 - CANCELLED "Revising Spenserian pastoral in Childe Harold's 'Pilgrimage'" and "Lyric Experience in 'In Memoriam' and its Romantic roots"
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Benjamin Norbury (University of Oxford), Edwina Watson (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 13:15 - CANCELLED - Pain, Emotion and Embodiment in Old Norse Literature
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sif Ríkharðsdóttir (University of Iceland)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 5 March 2020

• 17:30 - CANCELLED - "Under the Wave" Oxford Professor of Poetry Lecture Hilary Term
  This event has been cancelled due to industrial action.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Alice Oswald (University of Oxford)
  Professor of Poetry Lectures

Friday 6 March 2020

• 10:00 - English Graduates Careers Day
  Various Speakers

Monday 9 March 2020

• 15:45 - Rembrandt and the Bible (Biblical Art in Oxford series)
  Registration for this final lecture is essential, numbers are strictly limited. It will take place at the Ashmolean, starting at 3.45pm. To register, please email: christine.joynes@regents.ox.ac.uk
  An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Tuesday 10 March 2020

• 13:15 - CANCELLED - Deor on the Dark Side
  Cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Sunday 15 March 2020

• 17:00 - Readings and Music for Lent in New College Chapel
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Peter McCullough (Lincoln College, Oxford)

Thursday 16 April 2020

• 17:00 - Invalids on the Move - online event
  Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford), Dr Erica Charters (University of Oxford)
  TORCH goes Digital

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 17:30 - Dating Jane Austen: The Romance of Chronology
  Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 October 2020

• 16:30 - Women’s Literary Culture Before The Conquest
  Diane Watt (Professor of Medieval Literature, University of Surrey)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 16:30 - The Lost Victorian Women of Old English Studies
  Professor Jane Toswell (University of Western Ontario)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 17:30 - “It looks like a thing you have dreamt of”: Leigh Hunt’s Italian Experience
  Dr Serena Baiesi (University of Bologna)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 16:30 - Life Imitates Art: The Gesta Romanorum and Thomas Hoccleve’s Poetics of Autobiography
  Professor Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 16:30 - On N. F. S. Grundtvig’s Becoming an Old English Scop, Leoðwyrhta, Woðbora, Poet
  Professor Robert E. Bjork (Arizona State University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 17:30 - Constantin Volney's Ruins and his project for a Universal History
  Dr Audrey Borowski (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 November 2020

• 16:30 - A Medieval Manuscript's Journey to Taiwan: Coloniality and Premodern Bibliography in National Taiwan University Otori 299
  Professor Ruen-chuan Ma (Utah Valley University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 November 2020

• 16:30 - Vernacular Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Aesthetics and Power
  Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 17:30 - “A Kind of Knack at Rhyme”: Byron and Swift & "This song which like a lark I have protracted": Remembering at length in Wordsworth and Tennyson
  Edwina Watson (University of Oxford), Ben Norbury (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 16:30 - Towards a Queer/Lesbian Philology: the Case of Chaucer's Works in the Manuscripts of John Shirley
  CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Roberta Magnani (Swansea University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 16:30 - Langland’s Manuscript Lives
  Dr Sarah Wood (University of Warwick)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 19 January 2021

• 17:30 - “Beyond the present good or ill”: Georgic Complaint in the Romantic Period
  Tess Somervell
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 17:15 - Looking beyond the Lyrical “I”: the Wife’s Lament, Psalm Intertexts and Affective Technologies
  Samantha Zacher (Cornell University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:15 - Where’s the Point? Beowulf, Analogues, and Örvar-Oddr
  Michael Fox (University of Western Ontario)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Reading the Poetry of a Global Age
  Professor Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 17:30 - Romanticism and Self-Reflexive Revolutions
  Professor Nicholas Halmi (University College)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 17:15 - Frithegod and Form
  Tristan Major (Qatar University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:15 - Deor: A Dark Satanic Scop
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 17:30 - Cowper at Olney: reexamining the early years & Seeds, Polyps, Eggs: Blake and Preformation
  Andrew Newell, Tara Lee
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:15 - Everything’s Ending Here: Reading The Death of Edward in its Manuscript Context
  Francis Leneghan
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 17:15 - Wolfing it Down: the Motif of the Swallowing Dragon in Early Medieval England and Scandinavia
  Claudia Di Sciacca (University of Udine)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 17:15 - Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: Source Study in the Twenty-First Century
  Christine Rauer (University of St Andrew’s)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 13:30 - A Celebration of the Work of Claire Lamont
  John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Alison Lumsden (Newcastle), Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle), Seamus Perry (Oxford), Michael Rossington (Newcastle), Fiona Stafford, Kathryn Sutherland
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:15 - The Old English Daniel’s Baroque Design
  Emily Thornbury (Yale University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 17:30 - How many vampires are there in Dr John Polidori’s tale “The Vampyre”?
  Professor Nick Groom (University of Macau)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Monday 3 May 2021

• 17:30 - Poetry and Christianity since 1918: Michael Robbins
  TBA
  Poetry and Christianity since 1918: reading group

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 16:30 - ‘William Langland’s Apophatic Poetics’
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 17:30 - How Jane Austen Reinvented the Novel
  Prof. Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 16:30 - ‘Quidels and Crotels and “glosing tails”: Attractions and Distractions of Middle English Lexicography’
  Paul Schaffner (Editor, The Middle English Dictionary, University of Michigan)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 16:30 - ‘Error in the Printing House: Sixteenth-Century Scribes, Compositors, and Correctors’
  Tamara Atkin (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 17:30 - (Im)materialising Romanticism: Reflecting on REVE (Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition)
  Nicola Watson (Open University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 16:30 - ‘Old Norse: Trees and Sons; Tears and Time’
  Gareth Evans (University of Oxford), Siân Grønlie (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 16:30 - ‘The Flight of the Spiritual Director from the House of Fame’
  Mishtooni Bose (University of Oxford), Annie Sutherland (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 17:30 - Poems, on Various Subjects
  Various Speakers
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 June 2021

• 14:00 - 2-Day Conference: Political Assemblies in European Historical Drama c.1550-1650
  Please register to attend by 17:00 on 28 June
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 17:30 - “Hazlitt and Prejudice”
  Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 17:15 - Hoccleve's Community of Practice: Clerks, Scripts, and London Literature
  Professor Sebastian Sobecki (University of Groningen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:15 - Richard Methley’s “new Manner of Writing – to the Moment”: Narrative Time and Mystical Theology in Late Fifteenth-Century England
  Laura Saetveit Miles (Bergen)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:30 - “Cowper’s Hares and Heirs”
  Professor Fiona Stafford
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 17:15 - On Killdeer and Codicology: The Provenance of the Corpus Troilus
  Kathleen Kennedy (Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 17:15 - Ideas on Language and Biblical Heritage in Early Medieval Insular Thought
  Ciaran Arthur (NUI Galway)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 17:30 - “Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley as Collaborators”
  Dr Anna Mercer (Cardiff University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:15 - A New Setting for the Pearl Poet
  Sarah McNamer (Georgetown)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 17:15 - ‘The Manuscripts of Alcuin’s Carmina’ and ‘Drawing the Reader’s Attention: Dryhthelm’s Vision of the Otherworld and the Archangel St Michael in CCCC, MS 41’
  Colleen Curran, Patricia O Connor
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 13:00 - “Tyranny, Liberty, Resistance, and Regicide: Political Assassination in John Galt's The Spaewife”
  Zachary Garber (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:15 - MS Junius 11: A Poetic Manuscript
  Carl Kears (King’s College, London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 17:15 - ‘Psalms and Psychogeography in the Old English Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Science and Literature – a Marriage of Ideas: “The Sun in the South” Revisited’
  Rachel Burns, Anthony Harris (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 11:30 - ‘Flickers of past practice: The poetic lexicon of cremation in Old English’ & ‘The composition of Old English hagiographic verse: the Old English Metrical Calendar (Menologium) as micro-library’
  Glenn Cahilly-Bretzin (Lincoln College), Tom Revell (Balliol College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - POSTPONED ‘Keats’s Melodious Chuckle’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 11:30 - CANCELLED ‘Beowulf and the hunt’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Francis Leneghan (St Cross College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 11:30 - ‘“Sounding different” in medieval Wales according to its poets’ & ‘Song and space: movement, navigation, and the fifteenth-century English carol’
  Llewelyn Hopwood (Corpus Christi College), Micah Mackay (Balliol College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - ‘Careless John Clare’
  Erin Lafford (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 February 2022

• 11:30 - ‘Collecting and annotating Old Norse texts: on the library of Thormodus Torfæus’
  Katarzyna Anna Kapitan (Linacre College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 11:30 - The true portrait of Christ: origins and afterlife of a medieval forgery’
  Michael Kuczynski (Tulane University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - ‘John Keats and the London Cavalry’
  Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 22 February 2022

• 11:30 - ‘Light metaphysics and contingent poetics in Chaucer’s House of Fame’ & ‘The mythology of trauma in Chaucer’s Anelida and Arcite’
  Peter Buchanan (Lady Margaret Hall), Pamela Kask (Mansfield College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 11:30 - ‘This word in Latyn: late-medieval religious macaronic lyric’
  Jane Griffiths (Wadham College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:15 - ‘Personation: Character, Actor and Performance on the Romantic Stage’
  Helen Dallas (Trinity College, University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 March 2022

• 11:30 - ‘Dragons in Old English’
  Paul Acker (St Louis University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 17:30 - “Keats's Planetary Eyes”
  Meiko O'Halloran (University of Newcastle)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 17:15 - ‘“And bi þe bodi he him hent, | And al to peces here torent”: violent fragmentation and productive uncertainty in The Seven Sages of Rome’
  Hannah Bower (University of Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Nguyen, Hagedorn, Coppola, Conrad: Global Residues of the Anglo-American Genre System’
  Professor Jed Esty (University of Pennsylvania)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Polemicising doubt in late medieval England: adaptations of Latin casuistry in Wyclif, Dives and Pauper and Margery Kempe’
  Emily Corran (UCL)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Rethinking the Edwardian Succession'
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 17:30 - “Keats's Melodious Chuckle”
  Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘“If you will listen patiently”: conversion, conversation and cosmopolitanism in Old Icelandic sagas of Apostles’
  Carl Phelpstead (University of Cardiff)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Sermons and Ceremonies in Civil War Exeter'
  Dr Niall Allsopp (University of Exeter)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘“In pious hearts, a tree must grafted be”: Mechthild of Hackeborn’s The Boke of Holy Grace and The Desert of Religion’
  Anne Mouron (Regent’s Park)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Novel Representations of Tudor History'
  Dr Alexander Samson (University College London)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 17:30 - "Loud and Soft in Poetry: Coleridge's Volume"
  Mina Gorji (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘On the work of the late Anne Hudson (1938-2021)’
  Helen Barr, Cosima Gillhammer, Vincent Gillespie, Elizabeth Solopova, Annie Sutherland
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - 'Travelling Players and Continental Adaptations of English Drama: The Case of Tito Andronico (1620)'
  Dr Maria Shmygol (National University of Ireland Galway)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:15 - '"It was Greek to me": (Not) Quoting Phoenician Women'
  Dr Carla Suthren (University College London)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Preaching to the choir: a sceptical look at English Carthusian transmission of vernacular spiritual writings’
  Vincent Gillespie
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 12:30 - “P.B. Shelley, George William Tighe, and the Irish Roots of “The Sensitive-Plant”
  Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 17:15 - Friendship and Philosophy in the Circle of Anne Conway
  Please note, this week's seminar will be ONLINE only. Please email daniel.haywood@sjc.ox.ac.uk for the Teams link.
  Dr Michael Edwards (Jesus College, University of Cambridge)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:15 - 'Between Official Record and Gonzo Journalism: Parliamentary Diaries as a Transnational Genre in Seventeenth-Century Europe'
  Dr Jim van der Meulen (University of Oxford)
  Literature and History in Early Modern Britain Seminar

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 12:15 - Doing Justice: Who Read Middle English Romance and Why Does it Matter?
  Nicola McDonald ((York))
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Meet the Faculty
  Professor Peter McCullough (University of Oxford), Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford), Professor Noël Sugimura
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Hazlitt's Philosophical Criticism: Disinterestedness, Identity, and the Freedom of Speech
  Dr. Timothy Michael (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - ‘American Literature and Global Anglophone: An Institutional Reflection’
  Jeffery Lawrence (Rutgers)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The Etxepare Basque Institute Alan R. King Professor in Residence
  Imanol Larrea Mendizabal (Soziolinguistika Klusterra)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 17 October 2022

• 12:00 - Introducing Dion Boucicault's Andy Blake; or, The Irish Diamond
  Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Cultural Translations of the Ten Commandments in Late Ming and Early Qing Jesuit Catechisms
  Dr Giulia Faluto (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 18 October 2022

• 12:15 - 'The Wanderer and the Legacy of Pathetic Fallacy'
  Harriet Soper (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Demystifying the B-Course’: An Introduction to the MSt’s (1550-1700) Most Unfamiliar Module, from a Former Student of it
  Flynn Allott (Oriel College)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:30 - 'Sancho’s Britain'
  Paterson Joseph
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:30 - The Eyes of Others
  Juan Gabriel Vásquez
  Weidenfeld Lectures
• 17:30 - 'Sancho’s Britain'
  Paterson Joseph
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 17:00 - Dysgeidiaeth Cristnoges o ferch in Aberystwyth, NLW, Peniarth 403 and its sources
  Elena Parina (Bonn)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - The Curation of European Imperial Legacies
  Rosemarie Buikema (Utrecht)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 12:15 - "Skelton and the Commonweal: Greek History in Quattrocento England’ , and ‘K-I-S-S-I-N-G: Erotic Obscenity and “Young Readers” of the Merchant’s Tale, 1930–2008
  Lucy Fleming (New College), John Colley (Jesus College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Verse Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse
  Dr Michael Sullivan (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - A roundtable on 'Life-writing in the twentieth century'
  Dr Patrick Hayes (St Johns), Professor Margaretta Jolly (Sussex), Professor Max Saunders (Birmingham), Dr Nicole King (Exeter)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - ‘Dialogic Allegory’
  Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - The interplay between social structures and language variation in Welsh-speaking communities
  Jon Morris (Caerdydd)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Visiting Professor of Creative Media lecture: Jeanette Winterson
  Jeanette Winterson CBE, OBE, FRSL (University of Manchester)

Friday 28 October 2022

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop 1 - Life-Writing and Scholarship
  Note: this Workshop will be in the History of the Book Room (rather than Seminar Room A, as previously listed).
  Bart van Es (English, University of Oxford), Prof. Marion Turner (University of Oxford)
• 10:30 - Life-Writing Workshops
  Dr Kate Kennedy, Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)

Monday 31 October 2022

• 12:45 - Translation and Mountaineering
  Anna Saroldi (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - 'Dickens Reenvisioned for our Times: Furnace Creek, A Novel’ A reading and discussion
  Joseph A Boone (University of Southern California)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Astor Visiting Lecturer / Medieval Studies Lecture: ‘Do we mean lyric or song?
  Prof. Ardis Butterfield
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Tuesday 1 November 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Gothic images: Illustration in the Gothic novel, 1764-1840’
  David Wiggins (Uppsala University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:50 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Caroline Taylor, Jacob Ridley (University)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 17:00 - Beth oedd ‘Cymraeg da’ (1300–1600)?
  Llewelyn Hopwood (University of Oxford)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Decolonising Debates: the case of Nelson Mandela (VSI)’, in discussion with Ankhi Mukherjee
  Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 7 November 2022

• 17:00 - Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation
  Kostas Boyiopoulos (University of Durham)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 12:15 - Reading the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda
  Brittany Schorn (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Marina, Perdita, Eunuchus and The Rope: Slavery, Race and Genre in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
  Professor Susanne Wofford (New York University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Byron and the Novel
  Dino Felluga (Perdue University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - ‘Violence and the History of Sexuality: Lessons from Eighteenth-Century Connecticut’
  Greta LaFleur (Yale)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Let’s do it in the garden: A tale of temptation and redemption in NLS MS 72.1.26
  Charlene Eska (Virginia Tech)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Jorge Luis Borges's Old English Poetics
  All welcome. If you would like to attend this event, please contact Dr Rafael Pascual: rafael.pascual@ell.ox.ac.uk
  Prof. Jose Luis Martínez-Dueñas (Universidad de Granada)
  WOOPIE
• 17:15 - Jorge Luis Borges's Old English Poetics
  TBA

Friday 11 November 2022

• 13:30 - Editing and Digitising Marginalia
  Christopher Ohge, Nicholas Cronk, Gillian Pink, Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford), Dan Barker, Zoe Screti
• 14:00 - Globe Theatre Workshop: Gesture on the Shakespearean Stage
  Prof. Nandini Das

Monday 14 November 2022

• 12:45 - Space and the Experimental Work of Saihate Tahi
  Sarah Puetzer (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 12:15 - Before Attenborough: Early Medieval Natural History, Animal Diversity and “Edutainment”
  Megan Cavell (Birmingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Workshop for all those who teach FHS Paper 4 (Literature in English 1660-1760) at University of Oxford.
  Various Speakers
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Animal Emotionality in Norse Saga, Legend, and Romance
  Dr Timothy Bourns (University College London)
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Christopher Archibald (New), - Helena Rutkowska (St. Hugh’s)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - 'Modernism on the Circuit'
  Professor Peter Howarth (Queen Mary University of London), Dr Robert Volpicelli (Randolph-Macon College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 17:00 - Legacies and failures: Rethinking Welsh pop history
  Sarah Hill (Oxford)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Un-Home-ly: Dwellings and the Construction of Refugee Identity
  Radhika Mohanran (Cardiff)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 18 November 2022

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop 2 - Life-writing in Practice – an informal participatory workshop
  Note: this Workshop will be in the White & Case Room (rather than Seminar Room A, as previously listed).
  Professor Dame Hermione Lee (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 22 November 2022

• 12:15 - Syrian Silks: The Fabrics of English Identity
  Eleanor Myerson (Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 13:00 - "The thud of Blake's wings of excess": Exuberance, Violence, and the Ethics of Form in Blake's early Twentieth-century Reception'
  Shelly Harder
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - "'I Am the Subject of My Own Book: A Case for Scholarship in the First Person.”
  Prof. Leonard Barkan
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - Beginnings and endings: Moli Duw yn Nechrau a Diwedd and Cyntefin Ceinaf Amser
  Myriah Williams (Berkeley)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:00 - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: ‘Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Todd Carmody (Du Bois Institute)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 28 November 2022

• 12:45 - Object, Text, and Intermediality in Zbigniew Herbert
  Marianna Leszczyk (University of Oxford), Professor Jaś Elsner (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Rejected and Uncollected: Legal Deposit and Cultural Value in the Nineteenth Century
  Hannah Field (University of Sussex)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 12:15 - Synchronic histories of Older Scots Literature: the rewards and challenges of reconstruction
  Rhiannon Purdie (St Andrews)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 17:00 - Poets at Keble Series
  Lisa Robertson

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 17:00 - Darllen y tir yn iawn: Mannau’r cof yn Drych y Prif Oesoedd
  Dewi Alter
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Stephen Donovan (Uppsala), "Charterland: The Image of Rhodesia in British Culture, 1889-1930."
  Stephen Donovan (Uppsala)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Professor of Poetry Lecture
  Please note that this workshop has been postponed and will now take place on 1 December 2022
  Professor Alice Oswald (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 January 2023

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: Revenge Tragedy: 'Harriet Martineau and the Haitian Revolution’
  Rachel Ablow (University at Buffalo)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Bart Van Es and Lorna Hutson in conversation on England’s Insular Imagining
  Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Clare's Forms'
  Andrew Hodgson (Birmingham)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘After Dido: Carthage in Old English Literature’
  Luisa Ostacchini (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Monday 23 January 2023

• 11:00 - Reading Group: Stuart Hall
  TBA
  Reading Group: Stuart Hall
• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translating Vertiginously with Polly Barton, Queen's College Translation Exchange Translator-in-Residence and TORCH HCP Visiting Fellow
  Chair: Polly Barton (Translator-in-Residence)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Autobiography and literature’s demand (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Tuesday 24 January 2023

• 11:30 - Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner's Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  TBA
  Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner'sMaladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - Creating Cosmopolitanisms: 18thc Women Travel Writers and the Re-imagination of Identity
  Dr Shirley F. Tung (Associate Professor of English Literature, Kansas State University. Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Visiting Scholar (2022-2023))
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:15 - T. S. Eliot and Biography
  Professor Robert Crawford (University of St Andrews)
• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Lydgate and Humanist Reading After Arundel’
  William Sweet (Independent)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Magic and violence in Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi
  Mark Williams (University of Oxford)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: 'Restless Acoustics: Sonic Politics and Vocal Dissonance in the Soundscapes of Asylum-Seeker Detention'
  Anna Ball (NTU)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 30 January 2023

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “A Shadow of a Magnitude” - Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1871
  Christopher Donaldson (University of Lancaster)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 15:00 - Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities - Workshop 1
  Jean Wyatt (Occidental College, US), Jenni Ramone (Nottingham Trent University, UK), Helen Cousins (Newman University, UK)
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Women Walking in Shakespeare
  Dr Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Reading Austen and Austen's Reading'
  Richard Cronin (Glasgow)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: Alice Oswald and Angela Leighton will be in conversation
  Alice Oswald (Professor of Poetry, Oxford), Angela Leighton
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘The Early Insular Prayerbooks and the Dream of the Rood Tradition’
  Emily Kesling (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Canu Cymru–Llydaw ar ŵyl Santes Brîd: Gwerz Berc’hed a Merch y Gof
  TBA
• 17:15 - Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University
  Brigitte Cloarec (CAWCS), Nigel Ruddock (CAWCS), Mary-Ann Constantine (CAWCS)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 3 February 2023

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop 1 – Life-writing and scholarship
  Professor Sophie Ratcliffe (University of Oxford), Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford)

Monday 6 February 2023

• 11:00 - Reading Group: Stuart Hall
  TBA
  Reading Group: Stuart Hall
• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Translation as a Political Gesture in Ukraine
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - “Saving” the self from annihilation: diaries and/as autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 11:30 - Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner's Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  TBA
  Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner'sMaladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - Women and Regional Theatre in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century
  Dr Fiona Ritchie (Associate Professor Drama & Theatre Department of English McGill University.)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities - Workshop 2
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford), Brendon Nicholls (University of Leeds, UK), Claudine Raynaud (Université Paul Valery, Montpellier III, France)
• 16:00 - Old Norse Research Seminar
  Prof. Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford), Natasha Bradley, Clare Mulley, Eugenia Vorobeva, Katharine Beard
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 16:30 - Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis Seminar with Adam Phillips
  Adam Phillips
• 16:30 - Ordinary Language Psychoanalysis Seminar with Adam Phillips
  Adam Phillips
• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Usk’s Books’
  Philip Knox (University of Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford), Martha Swift
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Writing displacement, (re)writing the cosmopolis’
  Yasmin Akhtar (RHUL)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - POSTPONED: Celtic Research Seminar: Beginnings and endings: Moli Duw yn Nechrau a Diwedd and Cyntefin Ceinaf Amser
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Myriah Williams (Berkeley)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 13 February 2023

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘I am the Dog’
  Ana Parejo-Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Ghost Kings
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - POSTPONED: Romantic Research seminar
  Status: Please note that weeks 5&7 of the Romantic Research Seminar will now be postponed until Trinity
  TBA
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Beowulf’s Foliate Borders and the Surrounding Forest in Early Medieval England'
  Mike Bintley (Birkbeck, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Marina Warner discussing her memoir Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) with Karolina Watroba
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Marina Warner, Karolina Watroba
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 17:15 - POSTPONED: Celtic Research Seminar: Capturing and Preserving North Wales’ Jewish History?
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Nathan Abrams (Bangor)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 17 February 2023

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: Aesthetic Education: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 20 February 2023

• 11:00 - Reading Group: Stuart Hall
  TBA
  Reading Group: Stuart Hall
• 13:00 - Discussion Group: Jeremy Tiang and Zhang Yueran in conversation about Cocoon
  Jeremy Tiang, Zhang Yueran
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Kafka’s diaries and/as autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Nicholas Duddy (University of Oxford), Isabelle Stuart
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Tuesday 21 February 2023

• 11:00 - Livery, Skin, and the Early Modern Origins of Whiteness
  Professor Craig Koslofsky (Department of History, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
  Centre for Early Modern Studies
• 11:00 - Livery, Skin, and the Early Modern Origins of Whiteness
  Professor Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois Urbana Champaign)
• 11:30 - Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner's Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  TBA
  Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner'sMaladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - CANCELLED - Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘For to telle treuly holy writ and schortly and pleynly: The Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries’
  Cosima Gillhammer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar: ‘Expanding English literature in Africa: Exploring publisher James Currey’s Contribution’
  Onyeka Nwelue (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Language acquisition motivations and identity orientations among Scottish Gaelic diasporas in Nova Scotia and New England
  POSTPONED: Please note that this week's seminar has been postponed
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 24 February 2023

• 10:30 - Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop 2 – Informal participatory workshop
  TBA
• 17:30 - Professor of Poetry lecture with Alice Oswald – Anonymous and Onymous
  Alice Oswald (Poet)
  Professor of Poetry Lectures

Sunday 26 February 2023

• 09:30 - Feminist Thinking Graduate Conference 2023
  TBA
  TORCH goes Digital

Monday 27 February 2023

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘John Ruskin and Environmental Justice Today’
  John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 12:30 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: The First Folio at 400: What Are We Celebrating?
  Emma Smith, Ben Higgins, Amy Lidster
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 15:00 - Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities - Workshop 3
  Jennifer Gustar (University of British Columbia Okanagan, Canada), Andree-Anne Kekeh-dika (Université Paris 8 – Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France), Rhonda Frederick (Boston College, US)
• 17:00 - E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2023 - Manuscripts of Character: Codex
  Professor Niels Gaul
• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Towards a Co-Modelling of Cognition
  Marco Bernini (Associate Professor in Cognitive Literary Studies at Durham University)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:30 - POSTPONED: Romantic Research Seminar
  Status: Please note that weeks 5&7 of the Romantic Research Seminar will now be postponed until Trinity
  TBA
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: In Defence of Bjarki: Reappraising Beowulf’s Links with Scandinavian Legend’
  Tom Grant (University of Utrecht)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 17:00 - E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2023 - Manuscripts of Character: Ethos
  Professor Niels Gau
• 17:00 - Elizabeth Bishop & the Snail Shell: Brazil’s Sleeping Ear
  Rebecca Bradburn
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Magic writing: Representations of the Og(h)am script in contemporary fantasy
  Dimitra Fimi
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 6 March 2023

• 11:00 - Reading Group: Stuart Hall
  TBA
  Reading Group: Stuart Hall
• 12:45 - Discussion Group: Reuben Woolley and Panayiotis Xenophontos in conversation about Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv
  Reuben Woolley, Panayiotis Xenophontos
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation
• 17:00 - Blanchot as practitioner of autofiction (Autofiction And Maurice Blanchot: reading group)
  TBA

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 11:30 - Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner's Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  TBA
  Reading group: Jennifer L. Fleissner'sMaladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
• 17:00 - E A Lowe Lectures in Palaeography 2023 - Manuscripts of Character: Authority in Byzantium and Beyond
  Professor Niels Gaul
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar - 'Eighteenth-Century Delaniana: Mary Hamilton's Collage-Biography of Mary Delany on Mary Delany and Mary Hamilton
  Dr Nataliia Voloshkova (Bila Tserkva National Agrarian University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 17:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Humour and Horror in Ælfric ́s Passion of St Vincent’ (Chair: Rachel Burns)
  Niamh Kehoe (University of Düsseldorf)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  George Mather (University of Oxford, New College), Isavella Vouza
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  Professor Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Multimedia ogham and digital epigraphy
  Nora White (Maynooth)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial Writing and Theory Seminar
  Alex Tadié (University of Paris-Sorbonne)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 16 March 2023

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  Martin Crampin (AWCS)
  Celtic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar: Boat, on horseback, or walking across the waves: Journeys across the Irish Sea with the saints
  Martin Crampin (AWCS)
  Centre for Early Modern Studies

Monday 20 March 2023

• 15:00 - Global Black Women’s Writing: Experimental Subjectivities - Workshop 4
  Pelagia Goulimari, Naomi Morgenstern (University of Toronto, Canada), Milo Obourn (SUNY Brockport, US), Sheldon George

Monday 24 April 2023

• 12:15 - Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago) Heathcliff and Other Child Refugees
  Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Contemplating Criticism'
  Hannah Lucas (Newnham College, Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: 'Mourning in Translation: An Elegy’s Six-Hundred-Year Journey'
  Professor Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Sightscapes: Image and Text in Early Modern Women’s Marginalia’
  Professor Ros Smith (Australian National University’)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Keats vs Hunt'
  Erica McAlpine (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 17:00 - Enlightenment Workshop
  This event has now been moved to Trinity Term (26 April).
  David Armitage (Harvard/King’s College London)
  Centre for Early Modern Studies
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum: ECR information session
  Dr George Potts
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: American Literature Research Seminar: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency
  Please note that this seminar has been called!
  Prof. Roderick Ferguson (Yale)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 1 May 2023

• 17:15 - On the Logics of Social Worlds: A Talk with Gabriel Tupinambá
  Gabriel Tupinambá (Brazil)

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Reinventing medieval English liturgy: the lives and afterlives of The Lay Folks' Mass Book'
  Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Flynn Allott (Oriel College), Vighnesh Hampapura (St. John’s)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - CANCELLED: Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: 'Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Please note that this seminar has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances
  Dr Matthew Craske (Brookes)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 17:00 - Bateson Lecture
  Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy
  Prof. Kate Stanley (Western)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Teju Cole's Poetics of Secrecy and Revelation’
  Kai Wiegandt (Said-Barenboim Academy, Berlin)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:30 - Visiting Professor of Creative Media lecture with Jeanette Winterson
  Jeanette Winterson CBE, OBE, FRSL (University of Manchester)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: PMLA Aesthetic Education Forum: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Dr Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Prof. Kate Stanley (Western), Dr Nicole King (Exeter), Damien Maher (University of Oxford), Dr Erica McAlpine (University of Oxford), Prof. Patrick Hayes (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:00 - O'Donnell Lecture
  Rowan Williams

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Her Wordhoard: Unlocking Creativity in Academic Practice'
  Jane Griffiths (Wadham College), Dr Laura Varnam (University College, Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: ‘The Shelleys, Marlow, & the Lost Red Journal’
  Bysshe Coffey (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 May 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Harriet Smith Hughes, Simona Bartolotta
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 13:00 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Storytelling and identities in contemporary Namibia’
  Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: A Colonial History of the Present
  Prof. Lisa Lowe (Yale)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 15 May 2023

• 17:00 - Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf A Book Talk, with response from Prof Stefano-Maria Evangelista (please note change of time)
  Alexander Bubb (Roehampton University)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 16 May 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: '‹ᚫ›s to ‹æ›s: Looking at Early Old English Front Vowel Orthography' and 'Rhetoric and Style in Old Norse Religious Prose'
  Annika Ester Maresia (Jesus College, Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Edward Gibbon and the limits of knowledge’
  Prof Jenny Davidson (Columbia)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Lara Masuo Yarkadas (Keble), Shanti Giovannetti-Singh (Keble)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Modern and Contemproary Literature Research Seminar: A roundtable on 'Literature and the Future'
  Julyan Oldham, Iris Pearson, Charles Pidgeon (University of Oxford), Dr Joshua Phillips (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Clarendon Lectures May 2023: "The Bird in Glee": On the Non-semantic
  Professor Susan Stewart (Princeton University)

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 16:30 - Out of the Question: Community - A reading group on Maurice Blanchot: Session 2
  Michael Holland (St Hugh’s College, Oxford), Hugo Jeudy (University of Oxford)
  Out of the question, Community: A reading group on Maurice Blanchot
• 17:30 - Clarendon Lectures May 2023: The Seasons: Paradigm of Lyric Time
  Professor Susan Stewart (Princeton University)

Monday 22 May 2023

• 12:15 - CANCELLED: Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge) The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
  Please note that the Nineteenth Century Research Seminar for this week has been cancelled.
  Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Medieval Multiversality: Modalities in 14th Century Poetry'
  Peter Buchanan (University of Cambridge)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England’
  Dr Dan Blank (Durham University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: ‘Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the 1830s: Chance, Time, and the Woman of Letters’
  David Stewart (Northumbria)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Clarendon Lectures May 2023: 'Motion and Turn: Ways of Water'
  Professor Susan Stewart (Princeton University)

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 17:30 - Clarendon Lectures May 2023: Poetry's Nature 'The Imperceptible, or Wilderness'
  Professor Susan Stewart (Princeton University)

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
  Prof. Kevin Quashie (Brown)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Victorian World Literature: Asian Classics Translated for the Popular Audience’
  Alex Bubb (Roehampton)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 12:00 - Medieval English Research Seminar: 'Life Records and The National Archives'
  Euan Roger (National Archives)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:00 - Old Norse Research Seminar: The Rhythm of Saga Prosimetrum
  Prof Carolyne Larrington (University of Oxford), Professor Judy Quinn (Cambridge)
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Spencer Grayson (Trinity), Richard Phillips (Balliol)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Child's play: staging 'The Woodcutter', Elizabeth Countess of Hardwicke's 1797 family theatrical’
  Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Jemima Hubberstey (LMH, Oxford), Dr. Natasha Simonova, Eleanor Housden, Sylvie Knight
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Zoe Rucker (Balliol College), Lucy Haenlein (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 13:00 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar: ‘Narrative and intervention: the case of the Herero-Nama genocide, Namibia’
  Nelson Mlambo (University of Namibia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
  Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford), Charles Forsdick (James Barrow Professor French and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for ‘Translating Cultures’, Liverpool), Sarah Jilani (City, University of London), Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 12:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Why Magazines Matter: Reading Charles Lamb’s ‘A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis’ (1822) in the London Magazine'
  Natasha Bharucha (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: ‘Scripts of Blackness: Early Modern Performance Culture and the Making of Race’
  Please note this seminar will be held on Teams
  Professor Noémie Ndiaye (University of Chicago)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language Inaugural Lecture: Holidaying in the Middle Ages
  Professor Marion Turner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare
  Dr Todd Carmody
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Edward Bancroft and the Forms of New World Narrative
  Prof. Cristobal Silva (UCLA)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 9 June 2023

• 17:30 - Professor of Poetry Lecture with Alice Oswald: Counterblast!
  Professor Alice Oswald (University of Oxford)
  Professor of Poetry Lectures

Tuesday 13 June 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern Graduate Forum
  Matilda Houston-Brown (Queens), Sophie Aldred (Worcester College, Oxford)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Salon Diplomacy and State Bankruptcy: Women’s Informal Diplomatic Spaces in Denmark-Norway during the Napoleonic Wars’
  Dr Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 12:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar: New Approaches to Modernist Studies
  Professor Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Johns Hopkins), Dr Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Ronnie Pope (Linacre College), Constance Everett-Pite (Corpus Christi College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: National Epics [nationalepics.com]: the Elusive Case of England’
  Prof. David Wallace (University of Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth”
  Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Holly James Johnston (University College), Madeleine Ros (Corpus Christi College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Imagining Margery and Julian: a reading and Q and A’
  Victoria MacKenzie
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum: 17 October
  Jane Cooper (All Souls), Paul Norris (Brasenose)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Annual Marilyn Butler Memorial lecture. ‘Mary Wollstonecraft for the Twenty-First Century’
  Professor Emma Clery (University of Uppsala)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 11:30 - English Faculty Pedagogy Forum: Session 1
  TBA
• 17:15 - ‘A Revolution of the Screw: Peripheralising Europe’
  Prof. Peter Boxall (New College), Dr Rachel Bryan (University of Oxford), Damian Maher
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Gifts and Books’
  Prof. Nicholas Perkins (St Hugh's College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Reading, Voice, and Devotion”
  Mary Fairclough (York)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 31 October 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Hidden Things: A Biblical Context for the Exeter Book Riddles’
  Dr Rachel A. Burns (Hertford College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘ Bernard Picart, the Image about Religion, and the Production of a New Truth Social’
  Dr Matthew Craske (Oxford Brookes)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum: 31 October 2023
  Flynn Allott (Oriel College)
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: ‘Christ’s Burial on the Late Medieval Stage’ / ‘“Hevenysh Revoluciouns”: The Complaint of Mars in motion’
  Sigrid Koerner (Jesus College), Shelley Williams (Jesus College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - “Gunpowder Jowls: Graphic Satires of Dissent, 1790-91”
  Stephen Bygrave (Southampton)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research seminars: Prof Marina Warner in conversation with Dr Karolina Watroba (All Souls) about her book Inventory of A Life Mislaid: An Unreliable Memoir (2021) and on life-writing more generally
  Dr Karolina Watroba, Professor Dame Marina Warner
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 12:15 - Medieval English Research Seminar: Urban Humanism and Chaucer’s House of Fame’
  Prof. Helen Fulton (University of Bristol)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar: ‘Unearthly Objects’
  Dr James Metcalf (University of Manchester)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
  Rachel O'Nunain (Magdalen College), Denis Topalović (Mansfield College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:30 - Professor of Poetry Inaugural Lecture - The Bat Poet: Poetry as Echolocation
  A E Stallings (Poet)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 12:30 - “‘We Are All Equally Creatures of Some Great Creator’: Compassion for Animals in the Poetry of Robert Burns”
  Malcolm Hay (Oxford)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Research seminars: ‘The Vacuum Cleaner: Myths and Metamorphoses’
  Prof Maud Ellmann (University of Chicago)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Graduate Forum: End-of-term social
  TBA
  Early Modern Graduate Forum

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum: Academic Style: An Informal Forum
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Monday 15 January 2024

• 12:30 - Faculty research in progress. Informal discussion session
  Helen Small (University of Oxford), Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 17:15 - David Hillman (Cambridge), ‘Shaking Spears: Salutation and its Undoing in Troilus and Cressida’
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Wordsworthian Resemblances
  Oliver Clarkson
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:15 - "Monasticism, Mystery, and the Mind: The Vernacular Theology of the Old English Daniel" and "Manuscripts and Readers of Thomas Hoccleve's The Regiment of Princes"
  Jasmine Jones (Oxford), Charlotte Ross (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 16:45 - Work Songs with Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Langston Hughes
  Dr Matthew Taunton (UEA)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 January 2024

• 17:30 - Blake’s Plow
  Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:15 - Black/Beautiful: the History of Song of Songs 1:5
  Miri Rubin (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Research Seminar
  TBA
• 17:15 - What was an Emotion? T. S. Eliot and Bertrand Russell
  Prof. David Dwan (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 17:15 - Writing intergenerational spaces in contemporary British Chinese poetry
  Alex Tickell (Open University), Jennifer Wong (independent)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024

• 12:15 - Provincial Fiction: Writing England and its others, c. 1830-1960
  Ruth Livesey (University of London)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 13:30 - Austen's Hearth: Patriachy and Cinder / The Verdict of Old Age: Margaret Oilhant's Ethics of Disappointment
  Edward mcLeren, Rocio Gomez Ruiz
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 11:00 - The Pedagogy forum: Session 1: Teaching Quotation
  TBA
• 16:00 - Unfinished Conversations on Early Modern Women’s Writing: ‘Still Kissing the Rod?’ #3
  Professor Rosalind Smith (Australian National University), Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin), Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Coleridge's Political Poetics
  Jacob Lloyd (Cardiff University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:15 - ‘Bathing for Health and Pleasure in the Middle Ages – Literary and Social Attitudes’
  Professor Elizabeth Archibald (Durham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:30 - Visiting Professorship of Creative Media 2023-24 Lecture
  David Baddiel

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 13:00 - On the Zimbabwean post-colony post-Mugabe: the politics and poetics of social media comedy
  Rodwell Makombe (North West University, British Academy Visiting Fellow)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 15:00 - Graduate World Literatures Reading Group
  TBA
• 16:45 - ‘We write our stories, our histories on the land’: Hereness in Janet Rogers and Jackson 2Bear’s ‘For This Land’ Series
  Dr Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:30 - 'The Haunted Closet: Closet(ed) Plays and the Drama of the Body's Absence,' and ‘Moving Parts: Circum-national emotions in Dublin Shakespeare’
  Helen Dallas (University of Oxford), Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:15 - A Middle English Poetics of Experience? The Case of Reson and Sensuallyte
  Marco Niervergelt (Paris)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - The emergence of 'cognition' in the critical conversation
  Prof Terence Cave
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Indian Jugglers and West Indian Cricketers: James, Hazlitt, and Decolonization’s Anachronisms’
  Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois, Chicago)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar

Friday 9 February 2024

• 12:15 - LGBTQ+ History Month reading group: 'You Are Jeff' by Richard Siken / 'this beautiful disaster'
  Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Monday 12 February 2024

• 17:15 - Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
  Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 11:00 - The Pedagogy Forum: Session 2
  Dr Sos Eltis, Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford)
• 12:15 - Old Norse Research Seminar
  Ashley Castelino, Grace O'Duffy
  Old Norse Research Seminar
• 12:30 - Reading and Discussion: "Adhad Noor Desai, Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature & the Poetics of Decomposition" (Cornell, 2015)
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Byron as Others"
  Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 17:15 - The Presence of Absence in Life before Death’
  Elaine Treharne (Stanford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Michael Sackur (Merton College), Luke Young (Luke Young)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 16:45 - Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics
  Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024

• 13:00 - (Re)Producing the Concept: On Arabic Critical Theory with Ziad Kiblawi (Oxford)
  Ziad Kiblawi (St Antony’s College)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 17:30 - 'Crowded elegies: Phillis Wheatley Peters' critique of identity'
  Dr Katarina Stenke (Greenwich University)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:15 - Chaucer’s Parson in London
  Michael Kuczynski (Tulane University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Literature, Conflict and Mourning
  Roundtable discussion
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 17:15 - Literature, Democracy and Transitional Justice: Comparative World Perspectives: a book discussion
  Mohamed-Salah Omri (St John’s, Oxford), Philippe Roussin (CNRS, Paris), Anisa Daoudi (Translation Studies, Birmingham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 23 February 2024

• 12:15 - LGBTQ+ History Month reading group: 'Seven People Dancing'
  Langston Hughes

Monday 26 February 2024

• 13:30 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  Rachel O’Nunain, Helen Dallas, Evan Leonhard
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Deathly Spectatorship and the Return of the Dead
  Hayley Bradley (University of Manchester), Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 12:30 - Hints and Hives: An Unanswered Question in Jane Austen's Letters?
  Thomas Robertson
  Romantic Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech), ‘Milton and Imperial Cartography’
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 13:00 - ‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance
  Dr Daniel Abdalla (Liverpool)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Eighth Century
  Prof. Daniel Anlezark (University of Sydney)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:15 - ‘“The lost unity of social life”: Law and Literature in the World-System’ This paper begins the theoretical work of developing a materialist and worldly approach to ‘Law and Literature.’
  Philip Kaisary (Carleton University, Canada)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar
• 17:15 - Celtic Research Seminar
  TBA
  Celtic Research Seminar

Monday 22 April 2024

• 17:15 - Performance as Infrastructure: Melodrama and the 1889 London Dock Strike
  Jo Hofer-Robinson (University of Warwick)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 12:15 - The Earliest Insular Almanac?: Types of Information in Old English and Insular Latin Calendrical Texts
  Christine Rauer (University of St Andrew’s)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Hecuba from Page to Stage in Early Modern England’ and ‘“Numbers flowe?” Plato’s Numbers and Spenser’s Line’
  Carla Suthren (St Catz), Beth Dubow (Oriel)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Late Style: Wordsworth and Some Others
  Professor Tim Fulford (De Montford University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 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

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

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)
  Early Modern English Literature 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

Wednesday 15 May 2024

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

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 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?
  THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED - NEW DATE TBC
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Monday 20 May 2024

• 12:30 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  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

• 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

• 12:00 - 'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and 'Necropolitical Ecologies: Representing Nature’s Death-work in the Borderzone'
  Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 30 May 2024

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

Monday 3 June 2024

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

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 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

• 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

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

Tuesday 11 June 2024

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

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 12:30 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  Yanrong Tan, Megan Williams, Tzen Sam
  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

• 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

Monday 7 October 2024

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 10 October 2024

• 17:00 - Who’s to blame for Connla’s death? Changing causae occidendi from Aided Óenfir Aífe to Bàs Chonnlaoich
  Abigail Burnyeat (Sabhal Mòr Ostaig)
  Celtic Research Seminar

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 12:15 - Ascetic Theory and the Impaired Christ: Peter Damian, Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich
  Amy Appleford (Boston University)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Meet the Faculty’
  Professor Paulina Kewes (Jesus College, Oxford), Professor Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Dorothy Wordsworth's Poetic Refreshments
  Jessica Fay (University of Birmingham)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:15 - Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation
  Prof Chris Danta (Australian National University, Canberra)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 13:00 - Tolkien as Interpreter and Transformer of Culture
  Holly Ordway
  Tolkien seminars
• 16:45 - Print Capitalism Between the Book and the Periodical
  Morgan Day Frank (Harvard University)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:15 - C course: British Literature and Culture at Mid-Century
  Professor Kirsten Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Tzen Sam (University of Oxford)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 12:45 - The Cosmopolitan Queer: Renée Vivien's Translations as De/Construction
  Rebecca Boyd (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 12:15 - Pearl: a reading and conversation
  Sian Hughes (Novelist)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Talkee Amy and Robert Wedderburn: Verbal Abuse, Smuggling, Obeah and Enslaved Grandmothers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
  Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:00 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  Aryehi Bhushan (Wolfson College), Leo Kadokura (Oriel College)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 24 October 2024

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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
• 17:30 - Èṣù at the Library: Yorùbá, AI and Mistranslation
  TBA
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 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

• 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
• 17:15 - Fiction and Other Minds: Contingent Minds: Companions, Proxies and Nobodies in Literary Writing
  Karin Kukkonen (University of Oslo)
  Fiction and Other Minds seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 10:00 - AI, Decoloniality and Creative Poetry Translation: The First Symposium
  Prof Andrew Rothwell (Swansea University), Dr Ana Valdivia (Oxford Internet Institute), Dr Robert Laidlow (University of Oxford)
• 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 - Oxford Wells Lectures
  Professor Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt)
  Early Modern English Literature 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

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 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

• 13:00 - A Harmless Vice: Tolkien’s Invented Languages
  Professor Mark Williams (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

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

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 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

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 13:00 - Medievalism in the Margins
  Grace Khuri (University of Oxford)
  Tolkien seminars
• 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

• 15:00 - Literature and Mental Health: Reading Group Session 2
  TBA
  Literature and Mental Health
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 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