Friday 31 October 2025

• 11:30 - ‘A Harlem Library Life: The beginning of the story’ (Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop)
  Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford)
  Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop

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

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 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

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

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 16:45 - Print Capitalism Between the Book and the Periodical
  Morgan Day Frank (Harvard University)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 16:00 - Deadpan in/as Black Aesthetics
  Tina Post (University of Chicago)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 16:45 - What was New Sincerity?
  Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)
  American Literature Research 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

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 16:45 - The Future of Literary Knowledge in the Authoritarian West
  Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 16:45 - The Novel And/As/Of Information
  Ryan Ruby
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
  Kamran Javadizadeh
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 16 October 2025

• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 30 October 2025

• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 13 November 2025

• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 27 November 2025

• 16:45 - American Literature Research Seminar
  TBA
  American Literature Research Seminar