American Literature Research Seminars 2020/21 & 2021/22

List of American Literature Research Seminars at the RAI – academic years 2020/21 & 2021/22

14 May 2020:

E.E. Cummings as a Poet of the Great War: Love, Sex, Brutality, and 'the Beauty of Living'

Alison Rosenblitt (Oxford)

28 May 2020:

Edith Wharton as Playwright

Daniel Abdalla (Oxford) Mary Chinery (Georgian Court University) and Laura Rattray (Glasgow)

11 June 2020:

The 'Oriental' Detective: Reading Race and Masculinity in Contemporary Asian American Crime Fiction

Harriet Stilley (Edinburgh)

28 January 2021:

Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling

Erica Fretwell (SUNY Albany)

11 March 2021:

James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962): a discussion

Dagmawi Woubshet (Pennsylvania)

20 May 2021:

Emerson's Economy of Pain

Thomas Constantinesco (Université Paris Diderot/Oxford)

11 October 2021:

On Compromise: Rachel Greenwald Smith in conversation with Merve Emre

Rachel Greenwald Smith (Saint Louis University)

25 October 2021:

Free Indirect: The Novel Form, its Thought and its Limits

Timothy Bewes (Brown)

25 April 2022:

Daring Love: Ivan Turgenev and Henry James

Michael Jonik (Sussex)

6 June 2022:

The Ghost as Pedagogue

David Hering (Liverpool)