Name: Professor Christine Gerrard
University of Oxford

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 1 December 2020

Pulteney, Patriots and Plunderers: Jonathan Swift and a 'Lost' Political Pamphlet of 1730
Date: 1 December 2020, 13:15 - 14:45
Speaker s: Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnball (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Online: Zoom
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 May 2023

Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture research seminar: ‘Child's play: staging 'The Woodcutter', Elizabeth Countess of Hardwicke's 1797 family theatrical’
Date: 30 May 2023, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Jemima Hubberstey (LMH, Oxford), Dr. Natasha Simonova, Eleanor Housden, Sylvie Knight
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organiser: Prof. Ros Ballaster
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Tuesday 23 January 2024

Blake’s Plow
Date: 23 January 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr James Wood (University of East Anglia)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty), Prof. Ros Ballaster
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 6 February 2024

'The Haunted Closet: Closet(ed) Plays and the Drama of the Body's Absence,' and ‘Moving Parts: Circum-national emotions in Dublin Shakespeare’
Date: 6 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker s: Helen Dallas (University of Oxford), Madeleine Saidenberg (University of Oxford)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 February 2024

'Crowded elegies: Phillis Wheatley Peters' critique of identity'
Date: 20 February 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Katarina Stenke (Greenwich University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 April 2024

From Corpus to Canon. Editing and Translating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literatures in the British Long Eighteenth Century
Date: 30 April 2024, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Dr Claire Gallien (Associate Professor English Department University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 14 May 2024

Happy Pills and Horoscopes: Collecting and Using Early Modern Almanacs 1600-1800
Date: 14 May 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof Paul Salzman (La Trobe)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 May 2024

Lent to Copy”: Art Rentals in the Age of Jane Austen
Date: 28 May 2024, 12:30 - 14:00
Speaker : Prof Janine Barchas (University of Texas)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Talkee Amy and Robert Wedderburn: Verbal Abuse, Smuggling, Obeah and Enslaved Grandmothers in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Date: 22 October 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Dr Ryan Hanley (University of Exeter)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 5 November 2024

Atomic and Agential Airs: Finch, Smollett, Barbauld
Date: 5 November 2024, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Rowan Boyson (Kings College London University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor David Francis Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (English Faculty), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

Susanna Centlivre ‘The Busy Body’ (1709) revived for the 21st century stage
Date: 11 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford, Creation Theatre and others)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Carly Watson (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 25 February 2025

Tangible Pasts: Antiquarian Culture and the Novel in the Eighteenth Century
Date: 25 February 2025, 17:30 - 19:00
Speaker : Prof. Katharina Boehm (University of Passau, Germany)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:30 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof. Julie Park (PPennsylvania State University)
Venue: Balliol College, Broad Street OX1 3BJ
Venue Details: Massey Room
Organisers: Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor Nicole Pohl (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Abigail Williams (Faculty of English), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 March 2025

“The capital pen of a sister author”: Reading Frances Burney with Jane Austen / Hester Thrale Piozzi’s Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing
Date: 11 March 2025, 12:30 - 13:40
Speaker s: Peter Sabor (McGill), Julie Park (Pennsylvania State University)
Venue: Mansfield College, Mansfield Road OX1 3TF
Venue Details: Seminar Room East
Organisers: Dr Tess Somervell (University of Oxford), Professor David Taylor (University of Oxford), Professor Christine Gerrard (University of Oxford), Professor Ros Ballaster (University of Oxford), Dr. Carly Watson (English Faculty), Prof Nicole Horwood (University of oxford)
Hosts: TBA