Wednesday 22 January 2025

• 17:00 - ‘Decolonising the Curriculum’
  Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Friday 24 January 2025

• 15:00 - ‘Ethnography of the Oikos: Space-Making Trauma and Healing in Toni Morrison’
  Professor Ato Quayson (Stanford University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 February 2025

• 17:15 - "World Literature and the Work of Revolution: Towards a Radical History of the Bildungsroman" / ‘The Novel, the Epic and the Collective’
  Professor David Cunningham (University of Westminster), Professor Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Regensburg/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 13 March 2025

• 14:00 - The Absent Cause: Postcolonial Thought and the Atlantic Archive
  Professor Simon Gikandi (Princeton University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 12:00 - “Migrant Hospitalities: Scenes of Arrival in the Windrush era and after”
  Jo McDonagh, Julia Hori
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:15 - "'It's not what you know, it's who you know': Social Capital, Cultural Capital, and the Greatness of The Great Gatsby"
  John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory (Emeritus Professor, New York University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of the Protest Novel
  Sarah Cole
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 12:00 - “The Cold War Conscience of the Autobiographical Novel Series” / “Growing up Online: Tech Memoir and Digital Rights”
  Marina McKay, Adam Guy
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 12:00 - , “On ‘Holy Hate’ in Black US Poetry, 1919”
  Julian Murphet
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar