Rebecca Bradburn

american poetry PhD at @engfac / @RAIOxford • she/her

[Rebecca Bradburn @bec_bradburn]

will now be ending emails in the style of Langston Hughes to Van Vechten: ‘with admiration and affection and one dozen dancing hippopotami’ (JWJ MSS 26 b.162, f. 2978 @BeineckeLibrary)

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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 @RAIOxford. Have a lovely sun-filled summer, and join us next academic year for a fresh term card of ALRS events! 🌞

[Erica McAlpine @Erica_McAlpine]

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

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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

[Rothermere American Institute @RAIOxford]

On Thursday 15 Feb at 16:45 at the RAI @ALRSOx will host Natalia Cecire (Sussex) to discuss 'Psyche Preborn: H.D., Embryology, Cybernetics' - more details available here: https://t.co/SflBGs5cy7

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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

@GoldsmithsUoL

[Rothermere American Institute @RAIOxford]

The first @ALRSOx 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: https://t.co/d2U2HDG9nL

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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 @PadraigKirwan

Please note the shift in start time: our evening sessions will now kick off at *4:45pm*

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

Join us *tomorrow at 5pm* to hear the wonderful @habiba3brahim discuss 'The Twoness of Black Time and Being' - from the Du Boisian twoness of double-consciousness to African-diasporic views of twinship

https://t.co/BZBAHVXyCr

@RAIOxford
@engfac

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

After a truly amazing, jam-packed turn out for our last talk (thanks @XineYaoPhD 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’🖊️

@engfac
@RAIOxford

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

Kicking off this academic year with a fantastic ALRS term card !
Joining us this Michaelmas will be @XineYaoPhD, @habiba3brahim, @CharlsJH and Prof. Willard Spiegelman - come along for a medley of all things American lit, from incipient Edens to Amy Clampitt

@RAIOxford @engfac

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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'!

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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'.

[Rebecca Bradburn @bec_bradburn]

@t_stubbs @engfac @OxfordConted Amazing! Congrats Tara!

[Rebecca Bradburn @bec_bradburn]

@minyingh @fourteenpoems !!!!!!!!! 🧡

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

Come join us for our fourth instalment this term (Thurs 25th May, 5pm) - Prof. Kevin Quashie's presentation on "Estrangement, Consolation: On Black Criticism"

https://t.co/CLK6jrrGAJ
@RAIOxford

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

Join us today (5pm) for Prof Lisa Lowe's long-anticipated talk on 'A Colonial History of the Present'!

@RAIOxford @engfac
https://t.co/4ErJZRL6ZZ

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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'

@RAIOxford @engfac

https://t.co/BSlMYnyYfl

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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, @DrNicoleKing, and Damian Maher

https://t.co/UyAJOuibvz
@RAIOxford @engfac

[Oxford American Literature Research Seminar @ALRSOx]

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'

@RAIOxford @engfac
https://t.co/nudD8l3VFD