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Lecture Series 2025–2026
Global Encounters
About the seminar:
Literature(s) in English (I): Imaginative Encounters 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 (I) seminar will be mostly held online, via Zoom.
Fees:
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, 2025.
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 2025-2026
Literature(s) in English: Global Encounters
Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford University), “Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen's long conversation with fiction', Thursday 20 November (TBA)
Kathryn Sutherland is Professor Emerita at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the British Library's 'Discovering Literature' project, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Edition of Charles Dickens, and a trustee of Friends of the Nations' Libraries; and of the British Library Collections Trust. She is also Patron of Jane Austen's House Museum, Chawton, Hants. She is the author of Why Modern Manuscripts Matter (Oxford UP 2022). She has edited Lady Susan, The Watsons, and Sanditon (Oxford UP 2021), Jane Austen Writer in the World (Oxford UP 2017).
Massimo Bacigalupo (University of Genoa), “Comedy and Tragedy in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick”, December 4, 17:00h
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.
Dídac Llorens Cubedo (Spanish National University of Distance Education, UNED), “Selves, Images, Projections: From T. S. Eliot’s ‘Preludes’ to The Cocktail Party”, December 11, 17:00
Dídac Llorens-Cubedo teaches English and U.S. literature at the Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED). He has published T. S. Eliot and Salvador Espriu: Converging Poetic Imaginations (Universitat de València, 2013). He has co-edited Reading T. S. Eliot: The Rose Garden and After (1930s-1950s) (Routledge, 2025), New Literatures of Old: Dialogues of Tradition and Innovation in Anglophone Literatures (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), and a critical edition of Eliot’s drama in Spanish translation, T. S. Eliot. Teatro Completo (Visor, 2022). His research focuses on Modernism, (neo)Victorianism and comparative literature, across languages and the arts. He has coordinated two publicly funded research projects on Eliot’s drama: “T. S. Eliot’s Drama from Spain: Translation, Critical Study, Performance” and “Critical Reassessment of Eliot’s Verse Drama: Influence, Evolution, and Perception”, as well as the academic blog “T. S. Eliot and Drama”. He is also the general editor of the journal Epos. Revista de Filología.
Susana Onega (Universidad de Zaragoza), “War Trauma and the Literature of Disenchantment during and after “The Great War”’ December 16, 17:00
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: https://www.routledge.com/Transcending-the-Postmodern-The-Singular-Response-of-Literature-to-the/Onega-Ganteau/p/book/9781003037583;
- The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone (taylorfrancis.com)
- The Ethics of (In-)Attention in Contemporary Anglophone Narrative - 1s (routledge.com)
Mary Pat P. Brady (Cornell University), “Scale as a Critical Tool”, January 12, 17:00 (Madrid time)
Professor Pat. P. Brady is the author of Scales of Captivity: Racial Capitalism and the Latinx Child and Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space (both from Duke University Press). Extinct Lands was awarded the Modern Language Association’s Prize for the Best Work of Latina/o and Chicana/o Literary and Cultural Criticism. She has also served as an associate editor of three editions of the Heath Anthology of American Literature where she helped to expand the broader understanding of the contribution of Latina/o authors to US literature. Brady also edited the ten-volume Gale Researcher: 20th and 21st Century American Literature Series (2017) and has written numerous essays on Chicana literature including, “The Contrapuntal Geographies of Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories” (published in American Literature in 1999) which won the Norman Foerster Prize for the best essay published in that journal for 1999. Currently the Director of the American Studies Program, she has also served as the Associate Chair of the Department, the Director of Graduate Studies and as the Director of Cornell’s Latina/o Studies.
Marta Cerezo (UNED), “‘Tis universal like the air of Heaven’: Reflections on Shakespeare as a universal author”, February 16, 17:00
Marta Cerezo is Professor of English in the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at the UNED (National University of Distance Education, Spain) where she teaches BA and MA level courses on Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Her current area of research is devoted to Shakespeare and religion and, most especially, to Shakespeare commemorative sermons delivered at Holy Trinity Church (Stratford-upon-Avon) since the nineteenth century. She is Chief Editor of Sederi Yearbook, the journal of the Spanish and Portuguese Society for English Renaissance Studies. She leads the UNED research group ELSSO (English Literary Studies in Society) and is the Principal Investigator of the Research Project PID2021-123341NB-I00 ‘Shakespeare’s Religious Afterlives: Text, Reception, and Performance’ (SHAKREL) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Jewel Spears Brooker (Eckerd College, Florida), “‘The Roots That Clutch’: Exile and Return in T. S. Eliot’s Poetry”, March 2, 17:00
Jewel Spears Brooker is Professor Emerita of Literature at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida where she received awards for teaching, scholarship, and campus leadership. She has held visiting research or teaching appointments at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oxford (Merton College), Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Cambridge, and Doshisha (Kyoto) Universities.
Jewel Spears Brooker is the author or editor of 11 books, most recently T. S. Eliot's Dialectical Imagination (2018). Her earlier work includes Mastery and Escape: T. S. Eliot and the Dialectic of Modernism (1994) and Reading The Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation (1990, co-author, Joseph Bentley). She is the co-editor with Ronald Schuchard of two volumes of the critical edition of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: Apprentice Years, 1905-1918 (2014) and Still and Still Moving, 1954-1965 (2019). Dr. Brooker edited T.S. Eliot: The Contemporary Reviews (2004), Approaches to Teaching Eliot's Poetry and Plays (1988), and Conversations with Denise Levertov (1998). She has written scores of essays on modern writers, including T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Denise Levertov, Richard Wilbur, Katherine Anne Porter, and Shusaku Endo. She has served as president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association, the T. S. Eliot Society, the society for Christianity and Literature, and other professional organizations. Dr. Brooker served six years as a member of the National Humanities Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Tatiana Kontou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, NKUA), “Georgiana Houghton’s Spirit Drawings” (TBA)
Tatiana Kontou is Assistant Professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, NKUA. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and culture and has special interests in sensation fiction, spiritualism, psychical research, material culture and psychoanalysis. She is the author of Spiritualism and Women’s Writing (Palgrave, 2009), editor of Women and the Victorian Occult (Routledge, 2010), and co-editor of The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult (Ashgate, 2012. Tatiana has also published a volume of primary sources on Anti-Spiritualism in the multi-volume series Victorian Spiritualism, 1840-1930 (Routledge, 2014) and has most recently co-edited a multi-volume collection of primary and archival sources titled Victorian Material Culture (Routledge, 2022) for which she also co-edited a volume on Fashionable Things. Tatiana has contributed essays on Wilkie Collins, Florence Marryat, sensation fiction, psychic detectives and the contemporary artist Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster. She is currently working on a book project on the figure of the lost child in Victorian and early twentieth-century literature and culture and psychoanalytic thinking.