Spencer Grayson on Katherine Phillips

Lukas Lacey-Hughes on Edmund Spenser

Lottie Page on allegory and the Faerie Queene

Leo Kadokura on Joseph Conrad

Isabel Sebolde on Race and Pregnancy in Early Modern England

Beryl Li Ji on Cynewulf’s “Wordes Craeftig”

lunch time!!

Roddy Howland-Jackson on TS Eliot

Patrick Durdel on Romeo and Juliet

Eliza Browning on Auden, Eliot, and hauntology

Claire Qu on Tabitha Lasley’s “Sea State”

Sophia Garnett on Rachel Cusk

Had a ball presenting English Graduate Conference Oxford 2023 this afternoon, experimenting with different readings & a magical realist result in Muriel Spark’s ‘The Hothouse by the East River’. Thanks to all involved, & shoutout to Jane Loughman for her genius paper alongside!

Iris Pearson on Muriel Spark’s Fantastic Hesitation, and Jane Loughman on Ali Smith’s Seasonal Quartet

Great speaking English Graduate Conference Oxford 2023 today! My paper focussed on Spenser’s reception on Quintilian, examining how far allegory is something which can be modelled.

Thank you to Deborah Lam for her wonderful keynote talk! So beautifully said with wonderful insights on concepts of “effort” and Ruskin 🎨

Michael Sackur on Christopher Kulendron Thomas and Anuk Arudpragasm

Thanks to all of our speakers, Deborah Lam, and committee for such a successful conference ❤️

It was such a privilege to hear and discuss brilliant and bold graduate work! Incredibly grateful to have had such generous and thoughtful engagements with my own meandering negotiations of doubt, unfinishedness and effort.

Fantastic day English Graduate Conference Oxford 2023 today, listening to and discussing such a wide range of approaches to doubt! Feeling freshly inspired as I return to my own research on taxonomic uncertainty in Marianne Moore’s poetry.