Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 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

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

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

Thursday 30 January 2020

• 12:30 - 'Representing Climate Change on Stage' and 'Touristic Social Spaces in E. M. Forster'
  Professor Kirsten E Shepherd-Barr (University of Oxford), Leonie Wanitzek (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 13 February 2020

• 12:30 - 'Through the Love of an Unknown Soldier: Elizabeth Bowen’s A World of Love (1955) and Coningsby Dawson’s The Love of an Unknown Soldier: Love Letters Found in a Trench (1918)' and 'Impersonality in Wallace Stevens'
  Dr Rachel Bryan (University of Oxford), Jack Hart (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 27 February 2020

• 12:30 - 'A Figure of Speech in Elizabeth Bishop' and 'Charlie Chaplin Among the Poets'
  Andrew Dickinson, Dr George Potts
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

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

Thursday 12 March 2020

• 12:30 - CANCELLED - 'What is the relation of the American one-line poem (or monostich) to lyric?' and 'Contemporary Women Writers Figuring the Visual Arts'
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Diana Leca, Sofie Behluli
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 17:00 - Group reading of George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 21 May 2020

• 17:00 - Introduction to Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature
  Professor Elizabeth Outka (University of Richmond)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 4 June 2020

• 17:00 - Roundtable on Life, Literature and Covid-19
  Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford), Melissa Alexander (University of Oxford), Sean Ketteringham (University of Oxford), Professor Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford), Chloe Nahum (University of Oxford), Sarah Waltcher (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 18 June 2020

• 17:00 - Professor Megan M. Quigley (Villanova University), 'T. S. Eliot's Fictional Afterlives'
  Professor Megan M. Quigley (Villanova University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 October 2020

• 17:15 - Reading (and Building) Machines: Modernist Women Poets and Emancipatory Technicities
  Dr Eric White (Oxford Brookes University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 November 2020

• 17:15 - Ecological Grief / Inhuman Faciality?
  Professor Paul Saint-Amour (University of Pennsylvania)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 2 December 2020

• 17:15 - Roundtable on Race, Politics and Modernity
  Dr Leah Rosenberg (University of Florida), Dr Hugh Stevens (University College London), Dr Mandisa Haarhoff (University of Cape Town)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:30 - Reading the Poetry of a Global Age
  Professor Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:30 - Professor Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University) on ‘Major Perverts’
  Professor Benjamin Kahan (Louisiana State University), Professor Jana Funke (University of Exeter)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:30 - Character, Connection and Cruising: E.M. Forster in the 21st Century
  Professor Laura Marcus (New College, Oxford), Professor David Trotter (Cambridge), Professor Santanu Das (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:30 - Literature and Philosophy
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Friday 7 May 2021

• 19:00 - Constructing Radical Networks of Care
  Dr. Sophie Lewis
  Feminist Thinking Seminars

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 17:30 - Literature and Late-Stage Capitalism
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The New Modernist Studies
  Douglas Mao (Johns Hopkins University), Sarah Cole (Columbia University), Gayle Rogers (University of Pittsburgh), Miriam Thaggert (University of Buffalo)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 17:30 - Laura Marcus and Twentieth-Century Literary Studies
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 17:30 - Virginia Woolf, A Roundtable
  Dr Emily Kopley (McGill University), Dr Merve Emre (Faculty of English, University of Oxford), Professor Gillian Beer (University of Cambridge)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Henry James and What They Didn’t Say’
  Professor Kate McLoughlin
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Monday 21 February 2022

• 17:30 - ‘H.D. & Bryher: An Untold Love Story of Modernism’
  Professor Susan McCabe (University of Southern California)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 17:30 - ‘Radical Domesticity’
  Mary McLeod (Columbia University), Victoria Rosner (Columbia University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature 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)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:15 - DPhil Research-In-Progress Forum
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Queer Kinship after Wilde: Transnational Decadence and the Family’
  Professor Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:15 - DPhil Research-In-Progress Forum
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 16:00 - The Waste Land After One Hundred Years: A Roundtable
  Various Speakers
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:30 - 'Sancho’s Britain'
  Paterson Joseph
  Modern and Contemporary Literature 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

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

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

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 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

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 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

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

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

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:15 - What was an Emotion? T. S. Eliot and Bertrand Russell
  Prof. David Dwan (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:15 - The emergence of 'cognition' in the critical conversation
  Prof Terence Cave
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:15 - Literature, Conflict and Mourning
  Roundtable discussion
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar