18th Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium
18th Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium
The 18th Century and Romantic Studies Colloquium brings together Princeton’s community of graduate students and faculty specializing in the long eighteenth century and Long Romanticism through a forum where we gather to discuss the current work being done in our field. Though the colloquium has traditionally focused on British literature of the 18th century and Romantic periods, we have recently hosted scholars with trans-Atlantic interests during this time frame. We invite speakers from around the country as well as international speakers, to share their research and answer questions in an environment that fosters engaged discussion. Recent speakers include Frances Ferguson, Sandra Macpherson, Marshall Brown, Anahid Nersessian, Wendy Lee, Abigail Zitin, Margaret Doody, Stuart Sherman, Cynthia Wall, Duncan Wu, and Maureen McLane.
Upcoming Events
Smollett’s Lost Causes: Satire, Practical Jokes, and Eighteenth-Century Warfare
March 30, 2023 at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh Hall 40
Past Events
2022 - 2023
Associate Professor School of English, Film, Theatre and Media Studies at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Her most recent book is Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations (Palgrave, 2018).
2019-2020
This event has been canceled.
Milton, Newton, and the Making of a Modern World
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the 18th C./Romantic Studies Colloquium.
Two Wordsworths: Mountain-Climbing, Letter-Writing
Book Learning
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the English Department and the Victorian Colloquium.
2018-2019
Book Learning
Reception in the Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall, to follow talk.
"Willing Wandering: Being mobile between creative and critical imaginaries"
2017-2018
On Handsomeness, Considered as a Category of Aesthetics
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
" 'In the cowslips peeps I lye': Romantic Botany and Telling the Time of Day by the Light of the Anthropocene"
Samuel Johnson's Chemical Ethic
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
2016-2017
Professor Castell presented his work on Romanticism in the Anthropocene, a uniquely interdisciplinary event that attracted students from various departments (science as well as humanities fields) and put the humanities in conversation with environmental sciences.
The colloquium collaborated with Susan Wolfson to organize an interactive roundtable seminar with Paul Hamilton on Felicia Hemans, in which graduate students in our department had the opportunity to closely read Hemans’ poems along with Professor Hamilton’s expert guidance.
This event was a collaboration between our colloquium and Comparative Literature, German, Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, and the Theory Colloquium. Professor Balfour gave a lively presentation on the aesthetics of the sublime and inversion.
Anahid Nersessian presented a thought-provoking paper on obscurity in Wordsworth, which was followed by a lively discussion with graduate students and faculty.