Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:00 - The Dissenting Atlantic: The Transatlantic Journey of The Experience of Thomas Jones (1850)
  Bridget Bennett
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:00 - ‘In the deep end, every stroke counts’: Aphorisms in Troubled Times, Yahia Lababidi in conversation with Ben Grant
  Yahia Lababidi, Ben Grant
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:00 - 'The Garbage of Our Lives’: Toward a Minoritarian Theory of Waste
  Dr Diarmuid Hester
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:00 - The Whale, or Moby Dick, International Copyright and the Transatlantic Fashioning of American Authorship
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 6 February 2020

• 17:00 - “Because the world does not exist”: Afrofuturism’s Radical Past
  Dr Erin E Forbes (University of Bristol)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 20 February 2020

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Melting-Pot Media: "Americanization" in the Early Twentieth Century
  Cancelled due to industrial action
  Dr Michael McCluskey (Boston University)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020

• 10:30 - The Limits of Transnational Exceptionalism: The Case of Ernest Hemingway in Cuba
  Dr Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera (Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest; Associate Professor at the University of Puerto Rico)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 14 May 2020

• 16:00 - E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and ‘the Beauty of Living’
  Dr Alison Rosenblitt (University of Oxford)
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 28 May 2020

• 16:00 - Edith Wharton as Playwright, a panel
  Dr Laura Rattray (University of Glasgow), Mary Chinery (Georgian Court University), Daniel Abdalla
  American Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 11 June 2020

• 16:00 - The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction
  Harriet Stilley (University of Edinburgh)
  American Literature Research Seminar