American Literature Research Seminars 2023/24

List of American Literature Research Seminars at the RAI – academic year 2023/24

12 October 2023:

Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America

Xine Yao (UCL)

26 October 2023:

The Poet, Born or Made? The Case of Amy Clampitt

Willard Spiegelman (Southern Methodist University)

9 November 2023:

The Twoness of Black Time and Being

Habiba Ibrahim (University of Washington)

23 November 2023:

Fractures in the Culture of Sentiment: Time and Region in Nineteenth-Century Sentimental Novels

Charlotte Hand (Oxford)

18 January 2024:

Work Songs with Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Langston Hughes

Matthew Taunton (UEA)

1 February 2024:

‘We write our stories, our histories on the land’: Hereness in Janet Rogers and Jackson 2Bear’s ‘For This Land’ Series

Padraig Kirwan (Goldsmiths)

15 February 2024:

Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics

Natalia Cecire (Sussex)

29 February 2024:

‘A Strange and Secret Thing’: Staging Heredity in the Harlem Renaissance

Daniel Abdalla (Liverpool)

25 April 2024:

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: The Queer Politics of Literariness

Lee Edelman (Tufts University)

9 May 2024:

Black Internationalism's Politics of Land

Christine Okoth (KCL)

23 May 2024:

The Bookshop of Black Queer Diaspora: Lorraine Hansberry and the Multiplications of Insurgency

Rod Ferguson (Yale)

6 June 2024:

Teaching Beyond Himself: After Cavell’s Ordinary

Rachel Malkin (Oxford)