American Literature Research Seminars 2024/25

List of American Literature Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2024/25

17 October 2024:

Print Capitalism Between the Book and the Periodical

Morgan Day Frank (Harvard University)

31 October 2024:

Deadpan in/as Black Aesthetics

Tina Post (University of Chicago)

14 November 2024:

What was New Sincerity?

Adam Kelly (University College Dublin)

28 November 2024:

Tracing the Ecological in Early American Environmental Thought & Model Thinking in Colonial New England

Sheila Byers (University of Oxford) 

Ethan Plaue (University of Oxford)

23 January 2025:

American Fictions of Vulnerability

Zalfa Feghali (University of Leicester) 

6 February 2025:

A World of Opodeldoc: Leigh Hunt, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Early Nineteenth-Century Periodical

Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge)

20 February 2025:

Toni Morrison’s Black Anthropocenes

Jenny Terry (University of Durham)

6 March 2025:

Deliberate Strangers: Transatlantic Homecomings in Henry James, James Baldwin and Stuart Hall

Christy Wensley (University of Oxford)

8 May 2025:

The Future of Literary Knowledge in the Authoritarian West

Christopher Newfield (Independent Social Research Foundation)

15 May 2025:

The Novel And/As/Of Information

Ryan Ruby (Independent Scholar)

22 May 2025:

Scholarship, Activism, and the Autonomy of Social Spheres

John Guillory (New York University)

5 June 2025:

The National Poetry Crisis

Kamran Javadizadeh (Villanova University)

12 June 2025:

Postgraduate Panel

Sara L. Borga (University of Oxford), Maya Hollander (University of Oxford) and Andrie Morris (University of Oxford)