• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Nicole King (University of Oxford) , Professor Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Thursdays at 5pm - weeks 1, 3, 6 and 7

Thursday 17 October 2019

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

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

Thursday 14 November 2019

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

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)

Thursday 6 February 2020

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

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)

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)

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)

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

Thursday 11 June 2020

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

Thursday 22 October 2020

• 10:30 - Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group I
  TBA

Thursday 5 November 2020

• 10:30 - Contemporary African American Poetry Reading Group II
  TBA

Thursday 19 November 2020

• 17:30 - Seminar with Evie Shockley (Rutgers), ‘Black Graphics: “Colorblindness” and the Survival of Black Being’
  Professor Evie Shockley (Rutgers University)

Thursday 3 December 2020

• 17:30 - New Book Seminar: Lindsay V. Reckson, Realist Ecstasy: Religion, Race, and Performance in American Literature (NYU Press, 2020)
  Professor Lindsay V. Reckson

Thursday 28 January 2021

• 17:30 - ‘Sensory experiments: psychophysics, race, and the aesthetics of feeling’
  Dr Erica Fretwell

Thursday 11 February 2021

• 17:30 - Book discussion: Tessa Roynon, The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction (Edinburgh UP, 2021)
  Dr Tessa Roynon (University of Oxford), Julia Adamo (Kenyon College), Dr Kasia Bodd (Cambridge), Professor Stephen Harrison, Dr Michael Kalisch

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:30 - James Baldwin’s Another Country: reading group and discussion
  Various Speakers

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:30 - ‘James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962): a discussion’
  Professor Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania)

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 17:30 - Writing Pain in the Nineteenth-Century United States
  Prof Thomas Constantinesco (University of Oxford)

Monday 17 January 2022

• 17:00 - Play is the thing: affect and affordances in Alice, William, and Henry James
  Jane Thrailkill (UNC Chapel Hill)

Monday 31 January 2022

• 17:00 - Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Michael Jonik (Sussex)

Monday 14 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Ghost as Pedagogue
  David Hering (Liverpool)

Monday 25 April 2022

• 17:00 - Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James
  Michael Jonik (Sussex)

Monday 2 May 2022

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 1, "Canonical and Noncanonical: The Current Debate"
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 16:00 - Faith and Philanthropy: America's Charitable Impulse for the Global Good
  David King (University of Edinburgh)

Monday 16 May 2022

• 10:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 2, "Mute Inglorious Miltons: Gray, Wordsworth, and the Vernacular Canon," Chapter 3, "Ideology and the Canonical Form: The New Critical Canon"
  Various Speakers

Monday 30 May 2022

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 4, "Literature After Theory: The Lesson of Paul de Man"
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 31 May 2022

• 16:00 - Rethinking America in Africa: U.S. Expansion, Race, and the 'Scramble for Africa'
  Jeanette Jones (University of Buffalo and University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Monday 13 June 2022

• 12:00 - ALRS Reading Group: Chapter 5, "The Discourse of Value: From Adam Smith to Barbara Herrnstein Smith"
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - "Ratio Studiorum": A Discussion with John Guillory
  John Guillory

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - ‘American Literature and Global Anglophone: An Institutional Reflection’
  Jeffery Lawrence (Rutgers)

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - ‘Dialogic Allegory’
  Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - ‘Violence and the History of Sexuality: Lessons from Eighteenth-Century Connecticut’
  Greta LaFleur (Yale)

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED: ‘Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare’
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Todd Carmody (Du Bois Institute)

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Weird Tales of the Twenty-First Century
  Kate Marshall (Notre Dame)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Kate Stanley (Western)

Friday 17 February 2023

• 16:00 - CANCELLED: Aesthetic Education: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 17:00 - Elizabeth Bishop & the Snail Shell: Brazil’s Sleeping Ear
  Rebecca Bradburn

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem
  Professor Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana)

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 17:00 - CANCELLED: American Literature Research Seminar: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency
  Please note that this seminar has been called!
  Prof. Roderick Ferguson (Yale)

Thursday 4 May 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy
  Prof. Kate Stanley (Western)

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: PMLA Aesthetic Education Forum: A Twenty-First-Century Primer
  Dr Nicholas Gaskill (University of Oxford), Prof. Kate Stanley (Western), Dr Nicole King (Exeter), Damien Maher (University of Oxford), Dr Erica McAlpine (University of Oxford), Prof. Patrick Hayes (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: A Colonial History of the Present
  Prof. Lisa Lowe (Yale)

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism
  Prof. Kevin Quashie (Brown)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare
  Dr Todd Carmody

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 17:00 - American Literature Research Seminar: Edward Bancroft and the Forms of New World Narrative
  Prof. Cristobal Silva (UCLA)

Thursday 12 October 2023

• 17:00 - Sympathy and Its Discontents: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling
  Xine Yao (UCL)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 17:00 - THE POET, BORN OR MADE? THE CASE OF AMY CLAMPITT
  Willard Speigelman

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Twoness of Black Time and Being
  Habiba Ibrahim (Washington)

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 13:00 - “Who can be sentimental and hungry?”: Western Temporal Deviations and Reimaginations of Sentimentality in an “incipient Eden”
  Charlotte Hand

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 16:45 - Work Songs with Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Langston Hughes
  Dr Matthew Taunton (UEA)

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 16:45 - ‘We write our stories, our histories on the land’: Hereness in Janet Rogers and Jackson 2Bear’s ‘For This Land’ Series
  Dr Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths)

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 16:45 - Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics
  Dr Natalia Cecire (Sussex)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 13:00 - ‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance
  Dr Daniel Abdalla (Liverpool)

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 16:45 - ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: The Queer Politics of Literariness’
  Prof. Lee Edelman (Tufts University)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 16:45 - ‘Black Internationalism's Politics of Land’
  Dr Christine Okoth (KCL)

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 16:45 - ‘The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency’
  Prof. Rod Ferguson (Yale)

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 13:00 - Teaching Beyond Himself: After Cavell’s Ordinary
  Dr Rachel Malkin (Oxford)

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 16:45 - Print Capitalism Between the Book and the Periodical
  Morgan Day Frank (Harvard University)

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 16:00 - Deadpan in/as Black Aesthetics
  Tina Post (University of Chicago)

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 16:45 - What was New Sincerity?
  Adam Kelley (University College Dublin)

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 13:00 - Jonathan Edwards and the Spiders: Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought
  Sheila Byers (University of Oxford), Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)