Dr Benjamin Bateman @ Oxford - Andrew Holleran, HIV/AIDS Fiction, and the Forms Melancholia Takes
Dr Benjamin Bateman is Senior Lecturer in Post-1900 British Literature and Director of Learning and Teaching in The School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures at The University of Edinburgh. His monographs are The Modernist Art of Queer Survival and Queer Disappearance in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, both from Oxford University Press.

In this two-day lecture series, Benjamin will share insights from the research for his new book project that revisits HIV/AIDS fiction from the 1980s and 1990s and examines both its (underappreciated) formal complexity and its co-emergence with the field of queer theory. Authors to be studied include Andrew Holleran, Dale Peck, Sarah Schulman, John Weir, and Patricia Powell.
Date: 21 November 2024, 14:00 (Thursday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Venue: Taylor Institution Library, St Giles' OX1 3NA
Venue Details: Room 2
Speaker: Dr Benjamin Bateman (The University of Edinburgh)
Organising department: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH)
Organisers: Billie Mitsikakos (University of Oxford), Shivani Arulalan Pillai (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: shivani.arulalanpillai@sant.ox.ac.uk
Hosts: Queer Intersections Oxford, Ars Memoriae - Memory Studies Reading Group
Booking required?: Not required
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Audience: Public
Editor: Shivani Arulalan Pillai