Current edition
Lecture Series 2026–2027
International Dialogues
About the seminar:
Literature(s) in English (III): International Dialogues is a seminar organized by the Master in Advanced English Studies at the University of Salamanca and the University of Valladolid. It brings together experts from several international universities working on different periods of English and American literature.
Official certificates of attendance will be issued, recognizing a total number of 20 hours. These will only be available to registered participants.
Sessions’ link: This link will be sent to registered participants via email before the sessions.
Venue:
The Literature(s) in English (III): International Dialogues seminar will be mostly held online, via Google Meet.
Lectures start at 17:00 (Spanish time). The Meet room opens at 16:45 so that everyone can connect in time.
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Anyone who wants to attend the seminar and receive official certification of attendance must be registered. Do so here.
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Important dates: Please, make sure to register before November 18, 2026.
This event is free of charge.
Participants who wish to receive a certificate of attendance must be officially registered and pay a fee to Formación Permanente’s fee (18€).
Lecture Series 2026-2027
Literature(s) in English (III): International Dialogues
Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, University of Oxford), “J.R.R. Tolkien: From Middle English to Middle Earth”, November 19, 16:45–18:45
Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature and Fellow and Tutor in English at Magdalen College, University of Oxford. He has published widely on medieval literature and the English language. Recent books include Chaucer’s Language (Bloomsbury, 2025); A History of English Spelling (Edinburgh, 2025); Bagels, Bumf and Buses: A Day in the Life of the English Language (Oxford, 2020) and The English Language: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, 2018). He has lectured to a variety of audiences on C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, has published articles on their scholarly writings and is the author of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford (Bodleian Publishing 2024).
Zenón Luis-Martínez (Universidad de Huelva), “A Poet in Shakespeare’s Time: An Introduction to George Chapman”, November 23, 16:45–18:45
Zenón Luis-Martínez is Professor of English at the University of Huelva. His work has focused on issues of literary history, poetics and the classical tradition in the works of Shakespeare, Cervantes, Sidney, Spenser, and more recently the poetry of George Chapman. He has edited George Chapman’s The Shadow of Night and Ovid’s Banquet of Sense (Cambridge: MHRA, 2026) and Abraham Fraunce’s The Shepherds’ Logic and Other Dialectical Writings (Cambridge: MHRA, 2016). He is also the author of In Words and Deeds: The Spectacle of Incest in English Renaissance Tragedy (Amsterdam: Rodopi/Brill, 2002), and has edited several collections, the most recent being Poetic Theory and Practice in Early Modern Verse: Unwritten Arts (Edinburgh UP, 2023). His current research work includes a monograph on the poetry and translations of George Chapman, and a translation of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. He has served as president of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies between 2018 and 2026.
Susana Onega Jaén (Universidad de Zaragoza), “The Symbolisation of Space and Border-Crossing and its Representation in Anglophone Literature”, November 26, 16:45–18:45
Susana Onega is Professor Emerita at the University of Zaragoza and a member of the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability. She was granted the Miguel Servet Award for Research Excellence by the Government of Aragón in 2021. She has written extensively on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, ethics and trauma and the transition from postmodernism to transmodernism. Her monographs include Form and Meaning in the Novels of John Fowles (1989), Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd (1999), and Jeanette Winterson (2006). She is currently coediting with Jean-Michel Ganteau the Brill Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics.
- https://cne.literatureresearch.net/susana-onega-jaen
- http://filologiainglesa.unizar.es/
- Latest books: Transcending the Postmodern (Routledge)
- The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction (taylorfrancis.com)
- The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative (routledge.com)
Dana Percec (West University of Timișoara), “Dracula for the Victorians: The Invention of Europe’s East through Travelogues and Gothic Fiction”, December 2, 16:45–18:45
Dana Percec is Professor of English at the West University of Timișoara, Romania. She teaches Elizabethan theatre and Victorian fiction, 19th century American literature and the history of the feminist movement. She is co-editor of two journals (indexed Scopus), British and American Studies and Gender Studies. She has published books and articles on Shakespeare, Victorian and contemporary British fiction, often from a feminist or ecocritical perspective. She is one of the executive directors of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies at the West University of Timișoara, a member of the Romanian Writers’ Union and a member of several international associations in the area of literary studies and English studies.
Fiona Sampson, “Mary and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romantic Revolutionaries”, December 14, 16:45–18:45
Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, literary biographer and writer about place. Her seventh and most recent poetry collection, Come Down (2021), received the European Lyric Atlas Prize, Naim Frashëri Laureateship, and Wales Poetry Book of the Year. Awarded an MBE for services to literature by the Queen, as well as a Cholmondeley Award, the Newdigate Prize, and multiple awards each from the Arts Councils of England and Wales, the Society of Authors, Arts and Humanities Research Council, and Poetry Book Society, her work has received multiple Book of the Year selections. She has been translated into 38 languages and been honoured with international prizes in the US, Bosnia, India, France, Albania and North Macedonia. In 2026 she received the Sandblom Prize (University of Lund, Sweden) for medical humanities. Her 26 books to date include the monographs Beyond the Lyric (Penguin 2012) and Lyric Cousins (2016), and she edited the Faber Percy Bysshe Shelley. Her study of Limestone Country was Guardian Book of the Year. The critically acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley was followed by Two-Way Mirror: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2022), a New York Times Editors’ Choice, Washington Post Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Plutarch Prize and PEN’s International Biography Prize. Also a critic, broadcaster and librettist, collaborating frequently with musicians and visual artists, she edited the UK’s national periodical of record, Poetry Review, from 2005-12. She recently coauthored Collaborative Poetry Translation (Routledge), serves internationally on literary juries and the boards of publishing houses and literary NGOs, has founded and directed an international poetry festival, was a Council member of the Royal Society of Literature, and is Trustee of the Royal Literary Fund. She is Professor Emerita of Poetry at the University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the British Trust for Literary Romanticism. Her recently published biography of George Sand, Becoming George, is shortlisted for the American Library in Paris Book Award; her next poetry collection, Watertango against extinction, is published by Wesleyan University Press in autumn 2027, and she is completing a study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (for Princeton University Press).
Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa), “From Sanctuary to Requiem for a Nun: The Adventures of Temple Drake”, December 15, 16:45–18:45
Massimo Bacigalupo is Professor Emeritus of American literature in the University of Genoa, Italy, past President of the Italian Association of American Studies AISNA, and a member of Accademia Ligure di Scienze e Lettere, Genoa. His research has centered on American and British Romanticism and Modernism, especially poetry. He is the author, most recently, of Angloliguria: da Byron a Hemingway (2017), Ezra Pound, Italy, and The Cantos (2020), Bloomsdays: in cammino con Joyce and Company (2023), the editor of Pound’s Posthumous Cantos (2015), and the translator of Wallace Stevens’s and Louise Glück’s poems. His monumental study The Formèd Trace. The Later Poetry of Ezra Pound (1980) is a must. He has edited and translated a two-volume edition of Herman Melville’s works: Opere (Milan: Mondadori, 1991) and has recently discussed Melville and others in Academia.edu.
He lives in Rapallo, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound in his last decade, see Tigullio Itineraries (available online). His contributions have appeared in The Modern Language Review, The Yale Review, Paideuma, Gradiva, and The Wallace Stevens Journal.
Rhett Forman (Tarleton State University, Fort Worth, Texas), “American Protestant Christianity in Modernist Verse”, January 13, 16:45–18:45
John Rhett Forman is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Literature at Tarleton State University in Fort Worth, Texas. He is a graduate of St. John’s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, the University of Dallas, Texas, the University of Salamanca, and the Antiochian House of Studies Theological Seminary, California. He is the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University and the Pepperdine University School of Public Policy, as well as a Pushcart Prize for Poetry nominee. His recent publications include “Ethics, Emotion, and the Contest between Philosophy and Psychology in William James and the Forgotten David Irons” (International Journal of Philosophic Studies), “Patristic Christianity in T. S. Eliot’s Philosophy of Education” (Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After, Routledge), and “Menippean Satire and Carnivalism in Ezra Pound’s ‘Pisan Canto 74’” (Ezra Pound and the Spanish World, Clemson), and he is the co-editor of A Little Light from the Borders: Poems After Ezra Pound (Clemson).
Nathalie Cochoy (University of Toulouse), “The Art of Falling in Paul Auster’s Oeuvre”, February 1, 16:45–18:45
A former fellow of the Ecole Normale Supérieure of Fontenay-Saint Cloud, Nathalie Cochoy is Professor of American Literature at the University Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. She is the author of Ralph Ellison, La Musique de l’Invisible (Belin, 1998), and of Passante à New York (Bordeaux University Press, 2010). She co-directed The Art of the City (Caliban, 2009), Marcher dans la Ville (Sciences de la Société, 2016), Disappearances (Caliban, 2016), The Suburbs: New Literary Perspectives (Fairleigh Dickinson Press, 2022) and City Ruins in American War Narratives (Transatlantica, 2022). She also directed City Instants (e-rea, 2010) and Coincidences (Miranda, 2014). She wrote numerous articles on the representation of urban and natural spaces in American literature. She was the editor-in-chief of Transatlantica for literature and the arts from 2009 to 2015. She was the chair of the research center “Cultures Anglo-Saxonnes/Center for Anglophone Studies” in Toulouse from 2016 to 2021.
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), “From Scary to Funny? The Trajectory of 18th-Century Gothic and Its Parody”, March 2, 16:45–18:45
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein is a postdoc and lecturer of British Literature at Ruhr University Bochum and co-editor of Crime Fiction Studies. Her research interest lies in English interwar detective fiction and Gothic and (political) Gothic parody of the long eighteenth century, both with a focus on gender representation. Among other topics, she has worked on trauma in the poetry of the Great War, nostalgia in crime fiction, and genre and reception theory. Currently, she is working on her post-doc project on masculinities and femininities in Golden Age Crime Fiction. Her PhD dissertation, Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody. Framing the Subversive Heroine (Routledge, 2022), focused on the topic of female normatisation in the Gothic novel versus the Gothic parody. Among her latest books are Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality: New Directions in Gothic Studies co-edited with Sarah Faber (Routledge, 2024) and the edited collection Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities: Proceedings of the Eighth Captivating Criminality Conference (U of Bamberg P, 2024). She is currently working on a Routledge edited collection called Teaching Gothic Literature Now due for publication in spring of 2027.