Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture Seminar

Trinity Term 2021

Trinity Term 2021 18th-century literature and culture research seminar, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.

All seminars on zoom. Weeks 4 and 6 are open to the public. Weeks 2 and 8 are Oxford members only. All sign up information through Twitter @EngFac18thC

Tuesday Week 2, May 4, 12.30-2: Faculty of English, University of Oxford: Zachary Garber ‘Mock Histories: Chronicle Fictions of the Mid-Eighteenth Century’ and Jemima Hubberstey, ‘ “It baffles all arrogant pretences to learning”: The Mithraic Altar at Wrest Park’

Tuesday Week 4, May 18, 5.30-7 pm. Professor Ashley Cohen, Assistant Professor of English at University of Southern California, ‘Slavery and Freedom in the Two Indies’

Tuesday Week 6, June 1, 5.30-7 p.m. Dr James Harriman-Smith, Faculty of English, Newcastle University, ‘Easy Transitions and Amazing Transitions: Garrick, Hume, andDramatic Character’

Tuesday Week 8 June 15, 5.30-7 p.m. Dr Ruth Scobie, Faculty of English and Mansfield College, University of Oxford, ‘ “Drawn in the darkest colour”’: Whiteness, women, and fictional celebrity, 1780-1806’