Introduction to Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature
All four seminars will start at 5 pm – 7 (UK time) on Thursdays and take place on Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Please email the organisers in advance to register.

14 May – Group reading of George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (Daniel Abdalla, Rebecca Beasley, Santanu Das, Andrew Dickinson, Lucy Fleming, Benjamin Grant, Sean Ketteringham, Mariachiara Leteo, Damian Maher, Agota Marton, Kate McLoughlin, Chloe Nahum, George Potts, Leonie Wanitzek)
21 May – Professor Elizabeth Outka (University of Richmond), Introduction to Viral Modernism: The Influenza Pandemic and Interwar Literature (2019) (‘Introduction’ to be pre-circulated, and Professor Outka will be leading the discussion with a short presentation)
4 June – Roundtable on Life, Literature and Covid-19: Melissa Alexander, Santanu Das, Sean Ketteringham, Kate McLoughlin, Chloe Nahum, Sarah Waltcher
18 June – Professor Megan M. Quigley (Villanova University), ‘T. S. Eliot’s Fictional Afterlives’
Date: 21 May 2020, 17:00 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2020)
Venue: Online
Speaker: Professor Elizabeth Outka (University of Richmond)
Organisers: Santanu Das, Rebecca Beasley
Part of: Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Sadie Slater