Mon, May 03 | 6 - 8pm
A PANEL DISCUSSING UNDERREPRESENTED FIGURES IN LITERATURE, WITH A SPECIFIC FOCUS ON OXFORD
Time & Location
Monday, May 03 | 6 - 8pm
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/7488185515?pwd=WnYwekZQaGhEUW1yaXJwODd0Z2oxdz09
About the Event
A panel discussion on underrepresented voices in literature, featuring a range of academics, writers, and poets discussing the problem and what we can do to improve diversity and inclusion in literature, with a particular focus on Oxford.
Panel members include
Peter Davidson Jane Stevenson Elena Lombardi Diana Berruezo-Sánchez Dimitris Papanikolaou
To speak on topics such as Caribbean literature, hybridity and dialogue in South America, Jesuits, and the treatment of Celtic peoples as well as much more.
Elena Lombardi and Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (both at Balliol) are working on a joint project around invisibility in literature, with Elena focusing on the woman reader in the time of Dante and Diana researching the literature of the black diaspora in early modern Spain.
Dimitris Papanikolaou focuses on 20th and 21st Century queer narratives (or lack thereof), particularly around the AIDs crisis; he is now working on a project around creating a more comprehensive bibliography around where to find these narratives and elicit more of them, especially recently due to the success of It's A Sin.
Peter Davidson’s research focuses on Early Modern, post-Reformation Catholicism, internationalism and interrelation of the arts. He focuses on the topic of exile and will be exploring this in relation to the Jesuits and their interaction with South American culture.
Jane Stevenson is a Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall and researches women Latin poets, exiles and British authors who publish on the continent. She also publishes fiction and will be discussing her research into the black diaspora which informed her novel series.