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