On Friday 14th March, A19 will hold a colloquium on new work in Nineteenth-Century American Literature. We hope you will take this opportunity to hear from leading scholars and contribute to their emerging research.

Provisional Program

14h-14h30: Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway): “Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Simon Pokagon and the Environmental History of American Books”

14h30-15h: James Dorson (Freie Universität Berlin): “The Aesthetics of Organization in American Literary Naturalism”

15h-15h30: Response by Tom Nurmi (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Coffee break

16h-16h30 : Nicholas Gaskill (Oriel College, Oxford): “Edgar Allan Poe and the Origins of Intensity”

16h30-17h: Lloyd Pratt (Oxford): “Black Aesthetic Education and Self-Reliance”

17h-17h30: Response by Jamie Fenton (Sorbonne Université)

Room 830, Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, Université Paris Cité, Place Paul Ricoeur, 75013, Paris

If you would like to attend on Zoom, please find the invite link here.