Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 12:15 - Salvation and the Land in the Old English Andreas
  Helen Appleton (Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Editing Shakespeare’s Lyric Poetry’
  Lukas Erne (University of Geneva)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - The Press of the Royal Institution
  David Duff (Queen Mary, University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 1 May 2025

• 17:15 - World Literature from the Viewpoint of Atrocity
  Bruce Robbins (Columbia)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 6 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nothing Matters: The Contemplative Poetics of Nought in Julian of Norwich and Beyond
  Raphaela Rohrhofer (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Prolific Ground: Landscape and British Women’s Writing, 1690-1790
  Nicolle Jordan (University of Southern Mississipi)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 8 May 2025

• 16:45 - The Future of Literary Knowledge in the Authoritarian West
  Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Journal editing in the changing marketplace: Postcolonial writing or world literature?
  Janet Wilson (Northampton and editor-in-chief, Journal of Postcolonial Literature)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 13 May 2025

• 12:15 - Greek Mystical Theology in Old English Texts
  Eleni Ponirakis (University of Nottingham)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 12:45 - Early Career Forum
  TBA
  English Faculty Early Career Forum
• 17:30 - 'These primeval mountains': Shelley, Buffon, and Deep Time / 'Nor be the parsonage by the muse forgot': The Poetic Legacy of Gilbert White
  Elspeth Askew (St Johns), Toby Stinson (Oriel)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 14 May 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 16:45 - The Novel And/As/Of Information
  Ryan Ruby
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 19 May 2025

• 12:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Tuesday 20 May 2025

• 12:15 - "Everything is broken": Mid Fourteenth-Century Alliterative Verse.
  Eric Weiskott (Boston College)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘Racial Capitalism in Early Modern England’
  Prof Ania Loomba (University of Pennsylvania)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Thomas Moore and Anacreon: a Reconsideration
  Jane Moore (University of Cardiff)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 11:00 - Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres
  John Guillory
  American Literature Research Seminar
• 17:15 - Emergency as Genre
  Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 27 May 2025

• 12:15 - Feeling Aliene, Now and Then: Work, Contemplation, and Alienation between Medieval Devotion and Modern Academia / The Speaking Dead: Conversing with the Living from Beyond the Grave in Early English Literature
  Rowan Wilson (University of Oxford), Anine Eglund (University of Oxford)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:15 - ‘“That Follows Not”: The Non Sequitur in Hamlet’
  Prof. Rachel Eisendrath (Barnard College)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - Byron and Consciousness
  Jane Stabler (St Andrews University)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Wednesday 28 May 2025

• 13:00 - Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Nineteenth-Century Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 12:15 - Messy Chaucer
  Rita Copeland (Pennsylvania)
  Medieval English Research Seminar
• 17:30 - Phillis Wheatley's Meditations in the Seasons
  Tom Jones (St Andrews)
  Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Research Seminar

Thursday 5 June 2025

• 16:45 - The National Poetry Crisis
  Kamran Javadizadeh
  American Literature Research Seminar

Tuesday 10 June 2025

• 17:15 - In conversation with Prof Adam Smyth and Prof Lloyd Pratt on Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth Century Atlantic World (Oxford, 2025)
  Prof. Kirsten McFarlane (University of Chicago)
  Early Modern English Literature Seminar
• 17:30 - "Shelley’s Philosophic Revel
  Dr Will Bowers (Queen Mary University of London)
  Romantic Research Seminar

Thursday 12 June 2025

• 13:00 - Postgraduate Panel
  Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford), Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Monday 16 June 2025

• 17:15 - Modern and Contemporary Graduate Forum
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Graduate Forum
• 17:15 - Nineteenth Century Research Seminar
  TBA
  Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Thursday 19 June 2025

• 12:30 - Rewriting the Land: Culture, the Early Marx, and the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
  Daniel Hartley (Durham)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Tuesday 24 June 2025

• 09:00 - One-Day Symposium: Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968
  Registration closes 31 May
  Keynote speaker: Professor Ayesha Ramachandran (Yale)