Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and 'Necropolitical Ecologies: Representing Nature’s Death-work in the Borderzone'
  Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Gamification of the Ghetto: Reading Between the Levels in Percival Everett's Erasure,' and 'Necropolitical Ecologies: Representing Nature’s Death-work in the Borderzone'
  Dr Elena Violaris (University of Oxford), Dr Lucinda Newns (Bishop Grosseteste University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'The Desire for Marriage'
  Dr Devorah Baum (University of Southampton)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 5 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 18:00 - '“The Freedom to be Wrong”: Reading Teju Cole with Chris Kraus'
  Please note that the lecture by Prof Tim Bewes on 5 June, 6-7.30 pm, will be in New College
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 'Chronotopic Forms in Recent Fiction by Women'
  Professor Tim Bewes (Brown University)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Monday 7 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation
  Prof Chris Danta (Australian National University, Canberra)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 30 October 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - ""Drafts": A Comparative History of the Literary Draft in Europe’. A Roundtable with Bryony Randall, Hannah Sullivan, Olga Beloborodova, and Scott McCracken
  Prof. Dirk van Hulle (University of Oxford)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 20 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - Waifs, Strays, and the Charitable Gaze
  Prof. Daniela Caselli (University of Manchester)
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar

Wednesday 4 December 2024 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:15 - DPhil work in progress, followed by Xmas drinks
  TBA
  Modern and Contemporary Literature Research Seminar