Trinity Term 2012

Dear all,
Welcome back to a not-so-sunny start of term! Let's not let the weather get the better of us, as we dive right into our line-up for Trinity:


1st Week: Please note this will be a joint event with St Anne's College, held on Friday, 27th April at 5pm in Seminar Room 5, 48 Woodstock Road.
Professor Jocelyn Harris, Otago, New Zealand
'Sanditon', the Duke of Clarence, and Sarrtjie Baartman, the 'Hottentot Venus.'

3rd Week: 10th May
Professor John Mullan, UCL, UK
Jane Austen's Quirks and Tricks

5th Week: 24th May
Professor Mary Favret, Indiana University, USA
Reading in the Dark; Keats's Vision


7th Week: 7th June
Dr Simon Kovesi, Oxford Brookes University, UK
John Clare: Violence, Peasantry and Reform


The remainder of the talks this term will be held in our usual location and time, Thursdays at 5:15pm in the English Faculty, Seminar Room A. 


Looking forward to seeing you all there! 
JF & LK

Easter Holiday Special (at Brookes University)

Dear faithful Romanticists,

Thank you all for a very successful term of Romantic Realignments, from Picadilly Bookshops to the Ecchoing Wye! We look forward to seeing you all in Trinity Term (lineup TBC).

In the meantime, our fellow Romanticists at Brookes University are hosting Professor Gerard Carruthers, Reader at the University of Glasgow and a visiting fellow of All Soul's College, Oxford. He will be giving a talk on 'Romantic Scotland: Britain's Paradox' this Friday, March 23rd, in the Music Room at Headington Hill Hall, at 5:00pm.

All welcome!

Double bill this week!

Dear all,

This week Romantic Realignments presents a double bill! On our regular Thursday slot, 1st March, our very own Dr Fiona Stafford will speak on 'Wordsworth and the Ecchoing Wye'. Dr Stafford, recipient of the British Academy Prize, will be talking about her research into Wordsworth's 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' and the literary significance of rivers; focusing on the difference between landscapes and places. We look forward to see you all there! 

Our second speaker for this week is Dr Marshall Brown, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Washington. We are extremely fortunate to have Dr Brown join us from overseas and offer to speak on to the title: 'The Voice of the Sod: Keats's Nightingale from Below'.


This talk will take place in our usual location, Seminar Room A, at 3:30pm this Friday, 2nd March. 

Wordsworth enthusiasts, Wye travellers, ornithologists, nature lovers and Keatsians alike - please feel free to come to one or both of these wonderful talks! Everyone welcome - we look forward to seeing you there! 

This Romantic Realignments, we will have the very distinguished Professor Frederick Burwick joining us from UCLA to speak about 'Shakespearean Pantomime: the Dumbshow of Kemble and Siddons'. 


We urge all interested to come along - you do not have to be a Romanticist or an English student! We hope to have a large turnout and welcome Fred in the UK. After the seminar, we will be convening for drinks and continued conversation at a local watering hole and invite all that wish to join us for dinner!


See you all tomorrow, 5:15pm in the English Faculty, Seminar Room A!

Preparatory Reading for this week's Seminar
Thursday 2nd February


'The Keats Brothers' by Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)


In preparation for this seminar there are a few pages of reading from Professor Gigante's latest book, 'The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George' (Harvard UP, 2011). If you are interested in attending and would like to receive the preliminary reading (of no more than about ten pages) please email lucy.kellett@balliol.ox.ac.uk


As usual, everyone is welcome to attend, from Romantic graduates to unRomantic undergraduates!

HILARY TERM 2012 SCHEDULE
Welcome to the real New Year and your resolution to attend as many Romantic-related events as possible! We hope our schedule this term makes that resolution easier to keep... We really look forward to seeing you there!

English Faculty Seminar Room A, Thursdays of odd weeks, 5:15pm


1st Wk - 19th January: 'The "monster in human shape", the "sneaking literary shrimp", and the Piccadilly bookshops', Dr. David Fallon (Oxford University)


3rd Wk - 2nd February: 'The Keats Brothers', Professor Denise Gigante (Stanford University)
- N.B. Professor Gigante would like attendees to read some passages from her latest book 'The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George' (Havard UP, 2011) as preparation for this more interactive seminar.  We will let you know further details as soon as possible. 


5th Wk - 16th February: 'Shakespearean Pantomime: the Dumbshow of Kemble and Siddons', Professor Fred Burwick (UCLA)


7th Wk - 1st March: 'Wordsworth and the Ecchoing Wye', Fiona Stafford (Oxford University) 

**EXTRA SESSION**: 
Friday 2nd March, 3:30pm, Seminar Room A: 'The Voice of the Sod: Keats's Nightingale from Below', Professor Marshall Brown (University of Washington)

HAPPY NEW (ACADEMIC) YEAR FROM ROMANTIC REALIGNMENTS! Michaelmas 2011

Welcome to the new year at RR! We have an exciting, diverse schedule for Michaelmas 2011, with eminent speakers across a broad range of writers and topics. We hope to see you at as many sessions as possible, whether you know a little or a lot!

1st Wk - Thursday 13th October: '"Grief-Searching Musing": John Clare and the Landscape of Mourning', Dr. Mark Sandy (Durham University)

3rd Wk - Thursday 27th October: 'Scott's Introductions to the Magnum Edition of the Waverley Novels', Professor Claire Lamont (Newcastle University)

5th Wk - Thursday 10th November: 'Pozzy, Bozzy, and some Origins for Romantic Literary Biography', Professor Jon Mee (University of Warwick)

7th Wk - Thursday 24th November: 'The British Inquisition: Terrorist Aesthetics and Visual Culture in the Romantic Period', Professor Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton)

All in Faculty Seminar Room A (formerly Room 11), at 5:15pm. Everyone warmly welcomed!