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