English Literature Research Seminar Series 2021-22

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

Each year, English and Scottish Literature welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research.

In the interests of audience and speaker wellbeing during Covid-19, and in line with our sustainability objectives, they will be held online using Zoom.

How to join

Seminars are free, and everyone is welcome.

Please contact the seminar chair of the event you wish to attend to receive a Zoom invitation and password.

Check the calendar for exact dates and times.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Dr Tara Stubbs (Kellogg College, University of Oxford) on sonnet sequences and cycles.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Dr Patrick Errington (University of Edinburgh) entitled "The Wood or the Trees? On the (Im)Possibility of an Ecological Criticism.”

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Professor Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin) entitled “Biofictions: Settler Colonialism and Heteronormativity in Australasian Settler Fiction.”

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Professor Timothy Baker (Aberdeen University) entitled “The Practice of Gleaning: Environmental Fragmentation in Agnès Varda, Kathleen Jamie, and Olga Tokarczuk”.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Peter Boxall (Sussex University) entitled “Mere Being: Imagination at the End of the Mind”.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Aarthi Vadde (Duke University) entitled “Communication, Computation, and the Icon Novel”.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Juliette Atkinson (University College London) on Victorian poetry and culture.

Join us on Zoom for a free seminar by Sadek Kessous (University of Edinburgh) and Paul Crosthwaite (University of Edinburgh) entitled "New Research in Literary-Economic Humanities".

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.