• Type: Seminar Series
• Timing: Thursdays at 5pm - weeks 1, 3, 6 and 7

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 22 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 5 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Thursday 19 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 20 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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