Wednesday 1 February 2012

‘Before Tolkien: Manuscripts, Audiences and Readers of Middle English Romance’

Dr Alison Wiggins (Senior Lecturer in English Language, School of Critical Studies,

University of Glasgow)



Wednesday 15 February 2012

‘The Birth of Romance in England’

Dr Laura Ashe (University Lecturer and Tutor in English Literature, Worcester College, Oxford)



Wednesday 7 March 2012

‘Medieval Romance and the Gift of Storytelling’

Dr Nicholas Perkins (University Lecturer and Tutor in English, St Hugh’s College, Oxford;

Curator of the exhibition)



Friday 23 March 2012

‘Shakespeare and Medieval Romance’

Professor Helen Cooper (Professor of Medieval and Renaissance Literature,

Magdalene College, Cambridge)

Lecture to accompany the World Book Day Display

Thursday 1 March 2012

‘The Watsons: Jane Austen Practising’

Professor Kathryn Sutherland

(Professor of Bibliography and Textual Criticism,

St. Anne’s College, Oxford)



13.00 – 13.30 convocation house, bodleian library

(entrance in old schools quadrangle)



FREE ADMISSION – ALL WELCOME