Tuesday 15 October 2019

• 17:15 - Keywords of Identity, Race, and Human Mobility in Early Modern England
  Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford), Dr Joao Melo (University of Oxford), Dr Haig Smith (University of Oxford), Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 29 October 2019

• 17:15 - Matters of metre c. 1550-1650: the sixteenth-century transformation of Latin verse and its impact on English poetics
  Dr Victoria Moul (University College, London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 12 November 2019

• 17:30 - Apostrophe and Vitality in Baroque Poetry
  Dr Guilio Pertile (University of St Andrews)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2020

• 17:15 - ‘Kings of the Road? Royal and vagrant mobility in Jonson, statutes and stories
  Sue Wiseman (University of London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 4 February 2020

• 17:15 - George Chapman, Edward Coke and 'mitior sensus'
  Professor Jessica Wolfe (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2020

• 17:15 - The Physics of Poetic Form in Arthur Golding's Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses
  Dr Liza Blake (University of Toronto)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 3 March 2020

• 17:15 - 'Pericles, scattered'
  Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 26 May 2020

• 17:15 - Renaissance Imitatio: Colin Burrow, Kathy Eden and Brian Cummings in conversation
  Professor Colin Burrow (University of Oxford), Professor Kathy Eden (Columbia University), Professor Brian Cummings (University of York)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 9 June 2020

• 17:15 - Hot off the Press: Discussion Group on Recent Renaissance Criticism
  Dr Katie Murphy, Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 13 October 2020

• 17:15 - Meet the Faculty
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 27 October 2020

• 17:30 - Scattered Texts: The Cases of Pericles and Venus and Adonis
  Prof Adam Smyth (University of Oxford), Professor Joshua Eckhardt (VCU)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 10 November 2020

• 17:15 - Theories and Things in Early Modern Studies
  Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College), Dr Joe Moshenska (University College)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 17:15 - Reading Group: Spenser and Race
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 15:15 - ‘ “Not as a poet, but a pioneer”: Fancy and the Colonial Gaze in William Davenant’s Madagascar (1638)’
  Dr Lauren Working (University of Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 17:15 - Teaching Early Modern Literature and Race: A Roundtable
  Kimberley Coles (Maryland), Dennis Britton (University of New Hampshire), Hannah Crawforth (King's College, London), Jyotsna Singh (Michigan State University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 25 May 2021

• 17:15 - Distracted Globes, Attentive Spirits, Thronged Doors: The Playhouse as a Form of Thought
  Will West (Northwestern University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 8 June 2021

• 17:15 - 'On Being Attached’ from Rita Felski, Hooked: Reflections on Art and Attachment (2020)
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 12 October 2021

• 17:15 - ‘The Sex of Style: Women, Poetry and Criticism in the Seventeenth Century’
  Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:15 - ‘Forging Women’s Networks in Lanyer’s Salve Deus’
  Ramie Targoff (Brandeis University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 17:15 - Special lecture by Stephen Greenblatt: ‘The Master’s Books’
  Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 9 November 2021

• 17:00 - Wells Shakespeare Lectures by Bill Sherman: ‘Decoding Shakespeare’, Lecture I: ‘How to Make Anything Signify Anything’
  Professor Bill Sherman
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:15 - Reading & Discussion Group: Extracts from Melissa Sanchez Queer Faith (NYU Press, 2019)
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 18 January 2022

• 17:15 - 'Play the whole thing backwards: Radio Nashe’
  Esther Osorio Whewell (Corpus, Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 1 February 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Seneca, rhetoric, and the writing of character in early modern English drama’
  Curtis Perry (Ohio), Professor Lorna Hutson (Merton, Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 15 February 2022

• 17:15 - Race and Drama, East and West : Interdisciplinary Roundtable
  Simon Park (St Anne's College, Oxford), Prof Nandini Das (University of Oxford), Ewan McDonald (Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 1 March 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Erasmus on Trust’
  Brian Cummings
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 17:15 - 'Lifelikeness and Deathlikeness in Shakespeare'
  Professor Katharine Craik (Oxford Brookes), Dr Jennifer Edwards (The Queen’s College, Oxford)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 17:15 - ‘Admonitory Laughter, Prosopopoeia, and the Promise of Tudor Evangelical Literature.’
  Professor Adrian Streete (Glasgow)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 17:15 - 'Fearing the Body of the Witch: Gerontophobia and Transphobia in Early Modern Drama'
  Dr Ezra Horbury (University of York)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Friday 27 May 2022

• 17:15 - 'Turn, Verse, Trope'
  Professor Jeff Dolven (Princeton)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 7 June 2022

• 17:15 - Reading Group, details tbc.
  Various Speakers
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022

• 17:15 - Marina, Perdita, Eunuchus and The Rope: Slavery, Race and Genre in Shakespeare’s Mediterranean
  Professor Susanne Wofford (New York University)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 17 January 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Bart Van Es and Lorna Hutson in conversation on England’s Insular Imagining
  Bart van Es (Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford), Professor Lorna Hutson (University of Oxfordhttps://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-lorna-hutson)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 17:15 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Women Walking in Shakespeare
  Dr Eleanor Rycroft (University of Bristol)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 14 February 2023

• 17:15 - CANCELLED: Early Modern English Literature Seminar: Ghost Kings
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Sarah Knight (University of Leicester)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 28 February 2023

• 12:30 - Early Modern English Literature Seminar: The First Folio at 400: What Are We Celebrating?
  Emma Smith, Ben Higgins, Amy Lidster
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘Meet the Faculty’
  Professor Helen Moore, Professor Joe Moshenska (University of Oxford), Professor Diane Purkiss, Dr Philip West
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Monday 23 October 2023

• 17:15 - ‘Do Shakespeare’s Characters Mean What They Say?’
  Professor Jeffrey Knapp
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 7 November 2023

• 17:15 - The Logical Renaissance: Literature, Cognition and Argument, 1479-1630: A conversation
  Dr Katrin Ettenhuber (Pembroke College, Cambridge)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:15 - 'Milton's Faulty Media: Allegory and Accommodation in Paradise Lost'
  Dr Namratha Rao (University of York)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 16 January 2024

• 17:15 - David Hillman (Cambridge), ‘Shaking Spears: Salutation and its Undoing in Troilus and Cressida’
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 30 January 2024

• 16:00 - Unfinished Conversations on Early Modern Women’s Writing: ‘Still Kissing the Rod?’ #3
  Professor Rosalind Smith (Australian National University), Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin), Professor Sarah Ross (Victoria University of Wellington), Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Kings, London)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 13 February 2024

• 12:30 - Reading and Discussion: "Adhad Noor Desai, Blotted Lines: Early Modern English Literature & the Poetics of Decomposition" (Cornell, 2015)
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:15 - Su Fang Ng (Virginia Tech), ‘Milton and Imperial Cartography’
  TBA
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar