American Literature Research Seminars 2022/23

List of American Literature Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2022/23

13 October 2022:

American Literature and Global Anglophone: An Institutional Reflection

Jeffrey Lawrence (Rutgers)

27 October 2022:

Dialogic Allegory

Alexandra Kingston-Reese (York)

10 November 2022:

Violence and the History of Sexuality: Lessons from Eighteenth-Century Connecticut

Greta LaFleur (Yale)

2 February 2023:

Weird Tales of the Twenty-First Century

Kate Marshall (Notre Dame)

2 March 2023:

Elizabeth Bishop and the Snail Shell: Brazil’s Sleeping Ear

Rebecca Bradburn (Oxford)

9 March 2023:

Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem

Jennifer Fleissner (Indiana)

4 May 2023 (St John’s College):

Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy

Kate Stanley (Western)

5 May 2023:

Round Table - Aesthetic Education: A Twenty-First-Century Primer

Nicholas Gaskill (Oxford) and Kate Stanley (Western)

11 May 2023:

A Colonial History of the Present

Lisa Lowe (Yale)

25 May 2023:

Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism

Kevin Quashie (Brown)

7 June 2023 (St John’s College):

Work Requirements: Literary Labour and Social Welfare

Todd Carmody

8 June 2023:

Edward Bancroft and the Forms of New World Narrative

Cristobal Silva (UCLA)