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

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

Wednesday 29 May 2024

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

Monday 7 October 2024

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

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

Wednesday 20 November 2024

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

Wednesday 4 December 2024

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