• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays at 5pm - weeks 1, 3, 6 and 7

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Dissenting Atlantic: The Transatlantic Journey of The Experience of Thomas Jones (1850)
  Bridget Bennett

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘In the deep end, every stroke counts’: Aphorisms in Troubled Times, Yahia Lababidi in conversation with Ben Grant
  Yahia Lababidi, Ben Grant

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'The Garbage of Our Lives’: Toward a Minoritarian Theory of Waste
  Dr Diarmuid Hester

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Whale, or Moby Dick, International Copyright and the Transatlantic Fashioning of American Authorship
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - “Because the world does not exist”: Afrofuturism’s Radical Past
  Dr Erin E Forbes (University of Bristol)

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Melting-Pot Media: "Americanization" in the Early Twentieth Century
  Cancelled due to industrial action
  Dr Michael McCluskey (Boston University)

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - The Limits of Transnational Exceptionalism: The Case of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba
  Dr Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest; Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico)

Thursday 14 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and ‘the Beauty of Living’
  Dr Alison Rosenblitt (University of Oxford)

Thursday 28 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Edith Wharton as Playwright, a panel
  Dr Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow), Mary Chinery (Georgian Court University), Daniel Abdalla

Thursday 11 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction
  Harriet Stilley (University of Edinburgh)

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group I
  TBA

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:30 - Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group II
  TBA

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Seminar with Evie Shockley (Rutgers), ‘Black Graphics: “Colorblindness” and the Survival of Black Being’
  Professor Evie Shockley (Rutgers University)

Thursday 3 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - New Book Seminar: Lindsay V. Reckson, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press, 2020)
  Professor Lindsay V. Reckson

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Sensory experiments: psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling’
  Dr Erica Fretwell

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Book discussion: Tessa Roynon, The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
  Dr Tessa Roynon (University of Oxford), Julia Adamo (Kenyon College), Dr Kasia Bodd (Cambridge), Professor Stephen Harrison, Dr Michael Kalisch

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - James Baldwin’s Another Country: reading group and discussion
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962): a discussion’
  Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania)

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
  Prof Thomas Constantinesco (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Play is the thing: affect and affordances in Alice, William, and Henry James
  Jane Thrailkill (UNC Chapel Hill)

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Michael Jonik (Sussex)

Monday 14 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Ghost as Pedagogue
  David Hering (Liverpool)

Monday 25 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James
  Michael Jonik (Sussex)

Monday 2 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 1, "Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate"
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Faith and Philanthropy: America's Charitable Impulse for the Global Good
  David King (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 10:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 2, "Mute Inglorious Miltons: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Vernacular Canon," Chapter 3, "Ideology and the Canonical Form: The New Critical Canon"
  Various Speakers

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 4, "Literature After Theory: The Lesson of Paul de Man"
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 31 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Rethinking America in Africa: U.S. Expansion, Race, and the 'Scramble for Africa'
  Jeanette Jones (University of Buffalo and University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Monday 13 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 5, "The Discourse of Value: From Adam Smith to Barbara Herrnstein Smith"
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - "Ratio Studiorum": A Discussion with John Guillory
  John Guillory

Thursday 13 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘American Literature and Global Anglophone: An Institutional Reflection’
  Jeffery Lawrence (Rutgers)

Thursday 27 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Dialogic Allegory’
  Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York)

Thursday 10 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Violence and the History of Sexuality: Lessons from Eighteenth-Century Connecticut’
  Greta LaFleur (Yale)

Thursday 24 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: ‘Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Todd Carmody (Du Bois Institute)

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Weird Tales of the Twenty-First Century
  Kate Marshall (Notre Dame)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kate Stanley (Western)

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: Aesthetic Education: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Elizabeth Bishop & the Snail Shell: Brazil’s Sleeping Ear
  Rebecca Bradburn

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  Professor Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana)

Thursday 27 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: American Literature Research Seminar: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency
  Please note that this seminar has been called!
  Prof. Roderick Ferguson (Yale)

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy
  Prof. Kate Stanley (Western)

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: PMLA Aesthetic Education Forum: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Dr Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Prof. Kate Stanley (Western), Dr Nicole King (Exeter), Damien Maher (University of Oxford), Dr Erica McAlpine (University of Oxford), Prof. Patrick Hayes (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: A Colonial History of the Present
  Prof. Lisa Lowe (Yale)

Thursday 25 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
  Prof. Kevin Quashie (Brown)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare
  Dr Todd Carmody

Thursday 8 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Edward Bancroft and the Forms of New World Narrative
  Prof. Cristobal Silva (UCLA)

Thursday 12 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Sympathy and Its Discontents: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling
  Xine Yao (UCL)

Thursday 26 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - THE POET, BORN OR MADE? THE CASE OF AMY CLAMPITT
  Willard Speigelman

Thursday 9 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Twoness of Black Time and Being
  Habiba Ibrahim (Washington)

Thursday 23 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - “Who can be sentimental and hungry?”: Western Temporal Deviations and Reimaginations of Sentimentality in an “incipient Eden”
  Charlotte Hand

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:45 - Work Songs with Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Langston Hughes
  Dr Matthew Taunton (UEA)

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:45 - Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics
  Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - ‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance
  Dr Daniel Abdalla (Liverpool)

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: The Queer Politics of Literariness’
  Prof. Lee Edelman (Tufts University)

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - ‘Black Internationalism's Politics of Land’
  Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:45 - ‘The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency’
  Prof. Rod Ferguson (Yale)

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Teaching Beyond Himself: After Cavell’s Ordinary
  Dr Rachel Malkin (Oxford)