• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Helen Small , Professor Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Into the Wood: Dante, Byron, James in "Ravenna" (1875)
  Dr Tamara Follini (University of Cambridge)

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - The Critic as Artist: Reviewing the Inter-Discipline of Art Writing
  Prof Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck, University of London)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The "Story" in Henry James' "The Art of Fiction"
  Prof Philip Horne (University College London)

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "In Excess: Thomas De Quincey and the literature of addiction"
  Prof Robert Morrison (Bath Spa University)

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Edward FitzGerald's Translations"
  Dr James Williams (University of York)

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - "Decolonising the Victorians: Approaching racism and resistance in 2020 Britain"
  Please note: This session is CANCELLED and has been moved to 4th May 2020.
  Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - "A Canon of Their Own: Victorian Women Novelists Before Feminist Criticism"
  This talk has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Prof Alison Booth (University of Virginia)

Monday 4 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Decolonising the Victorians: Approaching racism and resistance in 2020 Britain
  cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter)

Monday 19 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - “Shake me up, Judy!”: Paralysis and narrative disruption in nineteenth-century fiction
  Dr Heather Tilley (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Natural Theology and the Revelation of Little Dorrit
  Professor Mark Knight (Lancaster University)

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Imperial fetishization of masculinity and race in Victoria Cross’s Anna Lombard
  Dr Katharina Herold (University of Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Sarah E. Farro: What a newly discovered African American writer can tell us about the British Victorian Novel.
  Prof Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Eliot's Program: Questions of Method in the Early Fiction
  Grace Lavery (Berkeley)

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Rudyard Kipling’s Video Game
  Timothy Gao (NTU Singapore)

Monday 22 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Phylogenetic Alterities in the Photographic Anthropocene
  Christie Harner (Dartmouth)

Monday 8 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:30 - Landscapes and Limericks: Edward Lear in Transit
  Matt Bevis (Oxford)

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Pre-Raphaelite in Black: Simeon Solomon's Racial Intimacies.
  Natalie Prizel (Princeton)

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Problems with Unled Lives.
  Andrew H. Miller, Johns Hopkins

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Signifyin(g) Monkeys: Race, Childhood, and Kinship in Paul Du Chaillu’s Stories of the Gorilla Country.
  Brigitte Fielder (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday 14 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - 'No special virtue, but a determined wilfulness': Power, Pleasure and a Woman's Place in the Writings of Margaret Oliphant.
  Clare Gore (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Monday 28 June 2021 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - The Interpretation of Freud on Dreams
  Susan L. Sugarman (Princeton)

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The Secret Lives of Plot
  Wendy Xin (Oxford)

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - The sonnet and heart-speech: intimacy and separation, silence and song in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter'.
  Josie Billington (Liverpool)

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - ‘Dead Secrets: Collins, Content, and Cultural Techniques in Victorian Print Culture.’
  Jim Mussell (Leeds)

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The Question of the New: Thinking about Emergence of Modernism with Wittgenstein, Kuhn, and Cavell.’
  Professor Toril Moi (Duke University)

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Carnivorous Castaways and Colonial Meat: The Robinson Crusoe Story and Victorian Structures of Feeding
  Paul Young (University of Exeter)

Monday 7 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Victorian Bodies Before the Normate: Convalescence and Community
  Talia Schaffer (Queens College, CUNY)

Monday 21 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Seeing Daggers: Scenes of Clerical Life and the Genealogy of Eliot's Realism
  Audrey Jaffe (University of Toronto)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - The “Sallow Mr Freely”: Sugar, Appetite, and Unstable Forms of Whiteness in George Eliot’s “Brother Jacob”
  Alisha Walters (Penn State)

Tuesday 3 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - 'Ruskin and Destruction'
  David Russell (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

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

• 13:00 - Gerard Manley Hopkins's "Skies of Couple-Colour"
  Sean Hewitt (Trinity College Dublin)
• 16:00 - POETRY READING
  Various Speakers

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

• 13:00 - Title TBC
  Juliette Atkinson (UCL)

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

• 13:00 - Why Study the Victorians?
  Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter)

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Introducing Dion Boucicault's Andy Blake; or, The Irish Diamond
  Sarah Meer (University of Cambridge)

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'Dickens Reenvisioned for our Times: Furnace Creek, A Novel’ A reading and discussion
  Joseph A Boone (University of Southern California)

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation
  Kostas Boyiopoulos (University of Durham)

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Rejected and Uncollected: Legal Deposit and Cultural Value in the Nineteenth Century
  Hannah Field (University of Sussex)

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: Revenge Tragedy: 'Harriet Martineau and the Haitian Revolution’
  Rachel Ablow (University at Buffalo)

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: “A Shadow of a Magnitude” - Black Lives in the English Lake District, 1660–1871
  Christopher Donaldson (University of Lancaster)

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘I am the Dog’
  Ana Parejo-Vadillo (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: ‘John Ruskin and Environmental Justice Today’
  John Holmes (University of Birmingham)

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago) Heathcliff and Other Child Refugees
  Prof Josephine McDonagh (University of Chicago)

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf A Book Talk, with response from Prof Stefano-Maria Evangelista (please note change of time)
  Alexander Bubb (Roehampton University)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - CANCELLED: Nineteenth Century Research Seminar: Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge) The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
  Please note that the Nineteenth Century Research Seminar for this week has been cancelled.
  Jan-Melissa Schramm (University of Cambridge)

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar Folklore and Satire: A Short Biography of Old Father Thames / Writing Towards Italy: Vernon Lee, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence
  Alice Huxley (Oxford DPhil student), Leonie Wareham Wanitzek (Oxford DPhil student)

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ‘Beggarland Unmasked’: Victorian Investigative Journalism and Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘The Man with the Twisted Lip’
  Matthew Rubery (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 30 October 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Colton Valentine (Yale University) Of Genres and Journals: Michael Field and the Frères Goncourt
  Colton Valentine (Yale University)

Monday 13 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Tour of the exhibition 'Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design' with curators’ talk by Charlotte Ribeyrol and Stefano-Maria Evangelista
  Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne Université), Stefano-Maria Evangelista (Associate Professor, Faculty of English)

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - The Constitutional Imagination in the Age of Reform: Bentham, Dickens, and the Rights of Man
  TBA

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Faculty research in progress. Informal discussion session
  Helen Small (University of Oxford), Sos Eltis (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - Provincial Fiction: Writing England and its others, c. 1830-1960
  Ruth Livesey (University of London)

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Affect, Realism, and the Victorian Novel: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy
  Doug Battersby (University of Bristol)

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - Deathly Spectatorship and the Return of the Dead
  Hayley Bradley (University of Manchester), Janice Norwood (University of Hertfordshire)

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Performance as Infrastructure: Melodrama and the 1889 London Dock Strike
  Jo Hofer-Robinson (University of Warwick)

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:15 - "Little Friend of All the World": Kipling’s Kim and International Adoption in Victorian British Culture
  Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers
  Deborah Denenholz Morse (William & Mary)

Monday 3 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:15 - Vernon Lee’s Critical Irrealism [on Hauntings]
  Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah)