• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Weeks 1, 3, 5 and 7. Tuesdays, 5.30pm
• Organising department: Faculty of English Language and Literature

Tuesday 15 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “The Place was all Eye”: Dorothy Wordsworth and the Scottish Tour Revisited
  Prof Nigel Leask (University of Glasgow)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Coleridge's Invisible Religion: A Primer
  Dr Gregory Leadbetter (Birmingham City University)

Tuesday 12 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic children's literature: 'wandering in the wilds' with Charles and Mary Lamb
  Dr Felicity James (University of Leicester)

Tuesday 26 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Tennyson, Burke, and the Sublimity of Song
  Dr Michael Sullivan

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - "To Tirzah" or, William Blake's changes of mind
  Dr Nicholas Shrimpton (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - "How the devil made Lord Byron"
  Dr Emily Bernhard Jackson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - CANCELLED "Revising Spenserian pastoral in Childe Harold's 'Pilgrimage'" and "Lyric Experience in 'In Memoriam' and its Romantic roots"
  This event has been cancelled.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Benjamin Norbury (University of Oxford), Edwina Watson (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Dating Jane Austen: The Romance of Chronology
  Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “It looks like a thing you have dreamt of”: Leigh Hunt’s Italian Experience
  Dr Serena Baiesi (University of Bologna)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Constantin Volney's Ruins and his project for a Universal History
  Dr Audrey Borowski (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “A Kind of Knack at Rhyme”: Byron and Swift & "This song which like a lark I have protracted": Remembering at length in Wordsworth and Tennyson
  Edwina Watson (University of Oxford), Ben Norbury (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - “Beyond the present good or ill”: Georgic Complaint in the Romantic Period
  Tess Somervell

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Romanticism and Self-Reflexive Revolutions
  Professor Nicholas Halmi (University College)

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Cowper at Olney: reexamining the early years & Seeds, Polyps, Eggs: Blake and Preformation
  Andrew Newell, Tara Lee

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - A Celebration of the Work of Claire Lamont
  John Goodridge (Nottingham Trent), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Alison Lumsden (Newcastle), Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle), Seamus Perry (Oxford), Michael Rossington (Newcastle), Fiona Stafford, Kathryn Sutherland

Tuesday 27 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - How many vampires are there in Dr John Polidori’s tale “The Vampyre”?
  Professor Nick Groom (University of Macau)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - How Jane Austen Reinvented the Novel
  Prof. Kathryn Sutherland (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - (Im)materialising Romanticism: Reflecting on REVE (Romantic Europe: The Virtual Exhibition)
  Nicola Watson (Open University)

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Poems, on Various Subjects
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Hazlitt and Prejudice”
  Dr Freya Johnston (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Cowper’s Hares and Heirs”
  Professor Fiona Stafford

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley as Collaborators”
  Dr Anna Mercer (Cardiff University)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - “Tyranny, Liberty, Resistance, and Regicide: Political Assassination in John Galt's The Spaewife”
  Zachary Garber (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 18 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - POSTPONED ‘Keats’s Melodious Chuckle’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 1 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘Careless John Clare’
  Erin Lafford (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 15 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - ‘John Keats and the London Cavalry’
  Nicholas Roe (University of St Andrews)

Tuesday 1 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:15 - ‘Personation: Character, Actor and Performance on the Romantic Stage’
  Helen Dallas (Trinity College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - “Keats's Planetary Eyes”
  Meiko O'Halloran (University of Newcastle)

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

• 17:30 - “Keats's Melodious Chuckle”
  Matthew Ward (University of Birmingham)

Tuesday 24 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - "Loud and Soft in Poetry: Coleridge's Volume"
  Mina Gorji (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 7 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - “P.B. Shelley, George William Tighe, and the Irish Roots of “The Sensitive-Plant”
  Elisa Cozzi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Hazlitt's Philosophical Criticism: Disinterestedness, Identity, and the Freedom of Speech
  Dr. Timothy Michael (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 25 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Sesta Rima as a Mode of Imitation: Hybrid Verse Forms in Anglo-Italian Verse
  Dr Michael Sullivan (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford)

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Byron and the Novel
  Dino Felluga (Perdue University)

Tuesday 22 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - "The thud of Blake's wings of excess": Exuberance, Violence, and the Ethics of Form in Blake's early Twentieth-century Reception'
  Shelly Harder

Tuesday 17 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Clare's Forms'
  Andrew Hodgson (Birmingham)

Tuesday 31 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Reading Austen and Austen's Reading'
  Richard Cronin (Glasgow)

Tuesday 14 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - POSTPONED: Romantic Research seminar
  Status: Please note that weeks 5&7 of the Romantic Research Seminar will now be postponed until Trinity
  TBA

Tuesday 28 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - POSTPONED: Romantic Research Seminar
  Status: Please note that weeks 5&7 of the Romantic Research Seminar will now be postponed until Trinity
  TBA

Tuesday 25 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Keats vs Hunt'
  Erica McAlpine (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 9 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: ‘The Shelleys, Marlow, & the Lost Red Journal’
  Bysshe Coffey (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: ‘Letitia Elizabeth Landon in the 1830s: Chance, Time, and the Woman of Letters’
  David Stewart (Northumbria)

Tuesday 6 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Romantic Research Seminar: 'Why Magazines Matter: Reading Charles Lamb’s ‘A Complaint of the Decay of Beggars in the Metropolis’ (1822) in the London Magazine'
  Natasha Bharucha (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Elizabeth Bishop and Wordsworth”
  Professor Seamus Perry (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld: Reading, Voice, and Devotion”
  Mary Fairclough (York)

Tuesday 7 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - “Gunpowder Jowls: Graphic Satires of Dissent, 1790-91”
  Stephen Bygrave (Southampton)

Tuesday 21 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - “‘We Are All Equally Creatures of Some Great Creator’: Compassion for Animals in the Poetry of Robert Burns”
  Malcolm Hay (Oxford)

Tuesday 16 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Wordsworthian Resemblances
  Oliver Clarkson

Tuesday 30 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Coleridge's Political Poetics
  Jacob Lloyd (Cardiff University)

Tuesday 13 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - "Byron as Others"
  Madeleine Callaghan (University of Sheffield)

Tuesday 27 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Hints and Hives: An Unanswered Question in Jane Austen's Letters?
  Thomas Robertson

Tuesday 23 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Late Style: Wordsworth and Some Others
  Professor Tim Fulford (De Montford University)

Tuesday 7 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Los and Enitharmon: Gender, Prophecy, and Division in Blake’s Fall
  Please note that the session will take place at 12:30 pm
  Jude Mahmoud (Kellogg College)

Tuesday 21 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Fugitive Histories and Gothic Pursuits: The Manhunt Narrative in Romantic-Era Fiction
  Michael Greaney (Lancaster University)

Tuesday 4 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Three on the Arun: William Collins, George Smith, Charlotte Smith
  Professor Alexandra Harris (University of Birmingham)