Join us tomorrow (5pm) for our final talk of Hilary term, where Professor Jennifer Fleissner Indiana University will be presenting on her new book 'Maladies of the Will: The American Novel and the Modernity Problem'! Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English rai.ox.ac.uk/event/maladies…

Seeing out this academic year with a jam-packed ALRS programme for Summer term! Come along for a smorgasbord of all things American literature, from climate pragmatism to new world narratives Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English

Join us tomorrow (4th May) at 5pm for a climate pragmatist approach to Wai Chee Dimock, William James & Zadie Smith, with Prof. Kate Stanley's paper on 'Climate Pragmatism: Experiments in Literary Pedagogy' Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English rai.ox.ac.uk/event/climate-…

ALRS Bumper Edition! : Join us at 4pm on Friday 5th May for a roundtable on 'Aesthetic Education: A Twenty-First-Century Primer' with Nick Gaskill, Kate Stanley, Patrick Hayes, Erica McAlpine, Nicole King, and Damian Maher rai.ox.ac.uk/event/round-ta… Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English

Come along today (5pm) for our annual Esmond Harmsworth Lecture in American Arts and Letters! This year, we'll be welcoming Michael Chabon, who'll be speaking on 'Proofs of the Illusion: A Moonglow Scrapbook' Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English rai.ox.ac.uk/event/proofs-i…

Join us today (5pm) for Prof Lisa Lowe's long-anticipated talk on 'A Colonial History of the Present'! Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English rai.ox.ac.uk/event/colonial…

Come join us for our fourth instalment this term (Thurs 25th May, 5pm) - Prof. Kevin Quashie's presentation on "Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism" rai.ox.ac.uk/event/estrange… Rothermere American Institute

Shake off October blues with 'Attention and the Humanities', organized by Alessandra Aloisi and Nicholas Gaskill!✨ Come along for a fab roundtable on the topic of attention, followed by @lucyalford's keynote lecture on 'Here and Gone: Poetic Attention and the Precarious Body'.

Ahead of our term card, here's a sneak preview of our first event of term - Dr Xine Yao's fab talk on 'Sympathy and Its Discontents: The Racial and Sexual Politics of Unfeeling'!

Kicking off this academic year with a fantastic ALRS term card ! Joining us this Michaelmas will be Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social, Habiba Ibrahim, C. and Prof. Willard Spiegelman - come along for a medley of all things American lit, from incipient Edens to Amy Clampitt Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English

After a truly amazing, jam-packed turn out for our last talk (thanks Dr. Xine Yao @xineyaophd.bsky.social for kicking us off in such fantastic style!), join us at 5pm on Thurs 26th Oct for Prof. Willard Spiegelman's talk 'The Poet, Born or Made? The Case of Amy Clampitt’🖊️ Faculty of English Rothermere American Institute

Join us *tomorrow at 5pm* to hear the wonderful Habiba Ibrahim discuss 'The Twoness of Black Time and Being' - from the Du Boisian twoness of double-consciousness to African-diasporic views of twinship rai.ox.ac.uk/event/twoness-… Rothermere American Institute Faculty of English

Shake off January blues with our Hilary term card 📢 Come along for a packed programme of all things Americanist, with speakers including the fab @ncecire and Padraig Kirwan Please note the shift in start time: our evening sessions will now kick off at *4:45pm*

The first Oxford American Literature Research Seminar of the term will be presented by Matthew Taunton (UEA) on 'Work Songs with Zora Neale Hurston, Alan Lomax, and Langston Hughes'. Thursday 18 Jan at 4:45 at the RAI. Details here: rai.ox.ac.uk/event/work-son…

Come along to the RAI next Thursday at 4:45pm to hear Padraig Kirwan speak on 'We write our stories, our histories on the land’: Hereness in Janet Rogers and Jackson 2Bear’s ‘For This Land’ Series' ! Goldsmiths, University of London

On Thursday 15 Feb at 16:45 at the RAI Oxford American Literature Research Seminar will host Natalia Cecire (Sussex) to discuss 'Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics' - more details available here: rai.ox.ac.uk/event/psyche-p…

incredibly excited to announce our ALRS term card for Trinity - come along to see out this academic year in style✨

Here’s my poem, which closes the new issue of Bad Lilies — thanks so much to the editors for including it!

And that's a wrap! Many thanks to all of our fantastic speakers over both the last term and the last academic year as a whole, and to the fantastic RAI team Rothermere American Institute. Have a lovely sun-filled summer, and join us next academic year for a fresh term card of ALRS events! 🌞