English Literature Research Seminar Series 2022 to 2023

A free series of events by guest speakers and colleagues in English and Scottish Literature.

Each year, English and Scottish Literature hosts a variety of exciting research events featuring a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues.

How to join

Events are free, and everyone is welcome.

Please check the calendar for venues and exact dates and times.

Join us for an in-person seminar by Dr Maria Dick (University of Glasgow) entitled 'Two Essays for Joyce'.

Join us for the Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century (SWINC) in-person autumn roundup of work presented at conferences over the summer.

Join us for an in-person seminar presented by Professor Joseph Boone (University of Southern California) entitled 'The Melville Effect: Meditations on Contemporary Art and Culture'.

Join us for an in-person seminar presented by Dr Terri Ochiagha Plaza (University of Edinburgh) entitled 'The Lure of Excess: Archival Seduction and Colonial Self-Monumentality'.

Join us online for the symposium 'Forms of Secrecy' organised by Edinburgh Network for Studies in Secrecy (ENSiS).

Join us for an in-person seminar presented by Dr Elsa Richardson (University of Strathclyde), launching the new research network Digestive Modernisms.

Join us for an in-person seminar presented by Dr Jo Walton (University of Sussex) on postcapitalist realism. *CANCELLED*

Join us for "Frances Wilson in Conversation: Writing Lives", an in-person event with James Tait Black Prize-shortlisted author Frances Wilson.

Join us online for a seminar with Professor Eric Song (Swarthmore College) entitled "Necessary Evil: Bitumen, Paradise Lost, and the Circulation of Historical Knowledge".

Join us for an in-person seminar by Dr Sourit Bhattacharya (University of Edinburgh) entitled "1922, Globally: The Anticolonial Modernism of Kazi Najrul Islam"

Are you interested in a PhD in English Literature?

We offer two PhDs: one in English Literature; and one in Creative Writing. Working with colleagues in LLC and across the wider University, we are able to support research which crosses boundaries between disciplines and/or languages.