Name: Professor Helen Small

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Wednesday 23 October 2019

'The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time' - Inaugural Lecture from Merton Professor of English Language and Literature
Date: 23 October 2019, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Helen Small
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre 2
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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Monday 5 June 2023

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Folklore and Satire: A Short Biography of Old Father Thames / Writing Towards Italy: Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence
Date: 5 June 2023, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker s: Alice Huxley (Oxford DPhil student), Leonie Wareham Wanitzek (Oxford DPhil student)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: TBA
Host: Professor Helen Small

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Monday 17 October 2022

Introducing Dion Boucicault's Andy Blake; or, The Irish Diamond
Date: 17 October 2022, 12:00 - 13:30
Speaker : Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 31 October 2022

'Dickens Reenvisioned for our Times: Furnace Creek, A Novel’ A reading and discussion
Date: 31 October 2022, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Joseph A Boone (University of Southern California)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 7 November 2022

Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation
Date: 7 November 2022, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kostas Boyiopoulos (University of Durham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 November 2022

Rejected and Uncollected: Legal Deposit and Cultural Value in the Nineteenth Century
Date: 28 November 2022, 17:00 - 19:00
Speaker : Hannah Field (University of Sussex)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 January 2023

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “A Shadow of a Magnitude” - Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1871
Date: 30 January 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Christopher Donaldson (University of Lancaster)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Dr Sos Eltis, Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 February 2023

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘I am the Dog’
Date: 13 February 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Ana Parejo-Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Dr Sos Eltis, Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 February 2023

Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘John Ruskin and Environmental Justice Today’
Date: 27 February 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : John Holmes (University of Birmingham)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 24 April 2023

Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago) Heathcliff and Other Child Refugees
Date: 24 April 2023, 12:15 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 May 2023

Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf A Book Talk, with response from Prof Stefano-Maria Evangelista (please note change of time)
Date: 15 May 2023, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alexander Bubb (Roehampton University)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 22 May 2023

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
Date: 22 May 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 October 2023

‘Beggarland Unmasked’: Victorian Investigative Journalism and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’
Date: 16 October 2023, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 30 October 2023

Colton Valentine (Yale University) Of Genres and Journals: Michael Field and the Frères Goncourt
Date: 30 October 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Colton Valentine (Yale University)
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Graduate Common Room
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 November 2023

Tour of the exhibition 'Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design' with curators’ talk by Charlotte Ribeyrol and Stefano-Maria Evangelista
Date: 13 November 2023, 9:00 - 10:00
Speaker s: Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université), Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Associate Professor, Faculty of English)
Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street OX1 2PH
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 November 2023

The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
Date: 27 November 2023, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker
Venue Details: Faculty of English, Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 January 2024

Provincial Fiction: Writing England and its others, c. 1830-1960
Date: 29 January 2024, 12:15 - 13:15
Speaker : Ruth Livesey (University of London)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organiser: Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 February 2024

Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
Date: 12 February 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 February 2024

Deathly Spectatorship and the Return of the Dead
Date: 26 February 2024, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker s: Hayley Bradley (University of Manchester), Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire)
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 November 2024

Genres of Deep Time
Date: 4 November 2024, 17:15 - 19:15
Speaker : Aaron Rosenberg
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: History of the Book Room
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 December 2024

Speculative Biography: The Strange Case of Edith Cooper
Date: 2 December 2024, 12:15 - 14:15
Speaker : Carolyn Dever
Venue: St Cross Building, St Cross Road OX1 3UR
Venue Details: Seminar Room L
Organisers: Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford), Professor Helen Small
Hosts: TBA