Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop: Professor Josephine McDonagh, ‘The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Child Migrants’

Laura Marcus Life-Writing Workshop:

Professor Josephine McDonagh, 'The Nineteenth-Century Lives of Child Migrants'

Details to follow.

Speaker Details:

Josephine McDonagh is Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Chair of the Development of the Novel in English and Distinguished Service Professor, Department of English and the College, University of Chicago. In Hilary and Trinity 2025, she is Visiting Fellow at All Souls College Oxford. She is a scholar of nineteenth-century British literature whose work has increasingly focused on the global circulation of literature and the impacts of European colonialism in the rest of the world. Her most recent book, Literature in a Time of Migration: British Fiction and the Movement of People, 1815-1876 (2021), reevaluates the significance of demographic mobility and settlerism in the British literary imaginary. She is now co-editing the Oxford Handbook of Literature and Migration. Her current work thinks about children and migration, in particular, the persistence of figures of displaced children within print cultures of the nineteenth century. 

Further Details and Contacts:

This is an in-person event and will not be recorded.

Registration is required and will close one week before the event (5:30 pm on 9 May). Confirmations of successful registration will be sent out one week before the event.

Please note that this event is exclusively open to current members of the University of Oxford. Workshop places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, with priority given to members of the English Faculty. 

Queries regarding this event should be addressed to OCLW Events Manager, Dr Eleri Anona Watson.