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

• 13:00 - Medieval Latin Manuscript Reading Group
  Various Speakers
• 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)
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
• 17:00 - What script teaches us about the state of world literary studies
  Dr Sowon S Park (UCSB)
  Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:15 - Pulteney, Patriots and Plunderers: Jonathan Swift and a 'Lost' Political Pamphlet of 1730
  Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnball (University of Oxford)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar
• 15:30 - The Medieval Book Club
  Various Speakers
• 17:30 - Amit Chaudhuri, ‘Why I Write Novels'
  Amit Chaudhuri

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Langland’s Manuscript Lives
  Dr Sarah Wood (University of Warwick)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Roundtable on Race, Politics and Modernity
  Dr Leah Rosenberg (University of Florida), Dr Hugh Stevens (University College London), Dr Mandisa Haarhoff (University of Cape Town)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

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
  American Literature Research Seminar