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The Royal Festival Hall is closed on Thursday 3 September, re-opening at 5pm to ticket holders only for Letters Live at 7.30pm. The National Poetry Library remains open with entry via the Royal Festival Hall Artists’ Entrance.

UCL lecturer Dr Xine Yao wearing a red jacket, standing against a dark wooden wall next to a tree

Xine Yao

Xine Yao is Associate Professor in American Literature to 1900 and co-director of the queer studies network qUCL at University College London. Yao’s Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke UP) won numerous prestigious prizes. She is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker.