Romantic Cheating: Optical Devices, Creativity, and the Threat of Deskilling
Department of English Lecture Series
Oct 14, 2026 — 4 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.
Join us for the next lecture in the Department of English Guest Lecture Series.
Lecture
The Department of English hosts a regular Guest Lecture Series. This fall, we are pleased to welcome back faculty members returning from sabbatical leave as they share insights from their latest research.
This second lecture in the series welcomes Professor Sara Landreth.
Sara Landreth
Professor
Professor Sara Landreth is an Associate Professor in the English Department at uOttawa with research specialisms across the literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. She is author of Wanton Motion in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2026), which tells the story of reading and writing practices that radically redefined how plots and characters could and should move. Her latest research focuses on the material cultures of arts and crafts supplies from 1750 to 1890.