Seminar convenors must ask participants (a) to present their papers as 4-page abstracts if they have not already done so, (b) to provide 100-word summaries of the abstracts to be published on the Conference website, and (c) to advise participants to register for the Conference.
Seminar convenors must forward the 100-word summaries, along with each participant's contact details (including email), to the ESSE-8 Conference Administrator by 31 March.
Seminar convenors must circulate the chosen abstracts among the participants at least two months before the Conference, and invite each participant to act as respondent to one abstract.
NB: Seminar convenors must maintain close contact with their co-convenors and participants, and inform the Conference Administrator of any cancellations, changes to seminar personnel, or amendments to abstract summaries.
The Programme is extremely tight for ESSE-8, and only in the most exceptional circumstances will it be possible to consider a second session for those seminars in receipt of a large number of excellent proposals. Seminar convenors wishing to apply for a second session must put their case in writing to the Academic Programme Committee, via the Conference Administrator, by 31 March.
If for any reason you are forced to withdraw your seminar from the Conference please let the Conference Administrator know by 31 March.
Our rooms will be offered in lecture/theatre style with rows of chairs facing a top table. Those intending to make short computer presentations must bring their own laptops if possible; anyone bringing a MAC computer must also bring a VGA adapter. NB: if you are intending to use a computer please let the Conference Administrator know by 31 March.
Please note that Conference registration fees are charged for the full five days. There is no daily rate.
The Human Body in Contemporary Literatures in English: Cultural and Political Implications
Convenor: Professor Dr Sabine Coelsch-Foisner (University of Salzburg)
Email: sabine.coelsch-foisner@sbg.ac.at
Co-convenor: Dr Marta Fernández Morales (University of the Balearic Islands)
Email: marta.fernandez@uib.es
Stories of Ageing - Cultural Histories of Age
Convenor: Professor Roberta Maierhofer (University of Graz)
Email: roberta.maierhofer@uni-graz.at
Co-convenor: Dr Heike Hartung (University of Greifswald)
Email: heike.hartung@pop.uni-greifswald.de
The Cognitive Turn in Literary Studies and its Use in Practical Interpretation
Convenor: Dr Margarete Rubik (University of Vienna)
Email: margarete.rubik@univie.ac.at
Co-convenor: Professor Jean Jacques Weber (University of Luxembourg)
Email: jean-jacques.weber@uni.lu
Culture and Identity in English Specialised Discourse
Convenor: Professor Guiseppina Cortese (University of Turin)
Email: gcortese3@virgilio.it
Co-convenor: Professor Michel Petit (SAES, Victor Segalen University, Bordeaux)
Email: michel.petit@lv.u-bordeaux2.fr
The Ethical Component in Experimental British Fiction since the 1960s
Convenor: Professor Susana Onega (University of Zaragoza)
Email: sonega@unizar.es
Co-convenor: Professor Jean-Michel Ganteau (University Paul Valery, Montpellier)
Email: jean-michel.ganteau@univ-montp3.fr
Interpretation of Novel Words
Convenor: Professor Dr Pavol Stekauer (Presov University)
Email: stekpal@unipo.sk
Co-convenors: Professor Christina Gagné (University of Alberta), Dr Salvador Valera (University of Jaén)
Email: cgagne@ualberta.ca
Email: svalera@ujaen.es
Narrative at the Crossroads: New Developments in Narrative Study
Convenor: Professor Jan Alber (University of Freiburg)
Email: jan.alber@web.de
Co-convenor: Professor John Pier (University of Tours)
Email: j.pier@wanadoo.fr
Beyond the Dining-Room: Representations of Food in Anglophone Literature and Culture
Convenor: Professor Jopi Nyman (University of Joensuu)
Email: jopi.nyman@joensuu.fi
Co-convenor: Dr Pere Gallardo-Torrano (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
Email: pere.gallardo@urv.net
Writers' Letters
Convenor: Professor Marianne Camus (University of Dijon)
Email: marianne.camus@free.fr
Co-convenor: Professor Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield)
Email: susan.fitzmaurice@nau.edu
Contemporary British Drama and the Question of Genre
Convenor: Dr Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier (University of Potsdam)
Email: brusberg@rz.uni-potsdam.de
Co-convenor: Dr Graham Saunders (University of Lancaster)
Email: graham@saun73.freeserve.co.uk
Anthologies and Challenges in 20th-Century American Poetry And Poetics
Convenor: Professor Hélène Aji (University of Maine, France)
Email: helene.aji@free.fr / helene.aji@univ-lemans.fr
Co-convenor: Professor Manuel Brito (University of La Laguna)
Email: mbrito@ull.es
Visuality in Modernist Aesthetics and Literature
Convenor: Dr Esther Sánchez-Pardo (Complutense University of Madrid)
Email: esanchez_pardo@filol.ucm.es
Co-convenor: Dr Kris van Heuckelom (Catholic University of Leuven)
Email: kris.vanheuckelom@arts.kuleuven.ac.be
What Future for the Future Tense in English?
Convenor: Professor Christopher Williams (University of Bari)
Email: cjwilliams72@hotmail.com / c.williams@scienzepolitiche.uniba.it
Co-convenor: Professor Ilse Depraetere (Charles De Gaulle Lille III University)
Email: ilse.depraetere@pandora.be
The European Responses to Whitman's Aesthetics
Convenor: Dr Marc Bellot (University of Amiens)
Email: mbellot@aol.com
Co-convenor: Dr Viorica Patea (University of Salamanca)
Email: vioricap@usal.es
New Directions in Literature and Film in the Twenty-first Century
Convenor: Professor Imelda Whelehan (De Montfort University)
Email: imw@dmu.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Professor Eckart Voigts-Virchow (University of Giessen)
Email: eckart.voigts-virchow@anglistik.uni-giessen.de
WITHDRAWN
Parentheticals in English
Rhetoric of Science across Times and Disciplines
Convenor: Dr Päivi Pahta (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)
Email: paivi.pahta@helsinki.fi
Co-convenor: Dr Elena Seoane-Posse (University of Santiago de Compostela)
Email: iaelena@usc.es
New English Literatures, Postcolonial Anglophone Arabic Writing and the Critic
Convenor: Professor Christiane Schlote (University of Berne)
Email: schlote@ens.unibe.ch
Co-convenor: Dr Stephen Morton (University of Southampton)
Email: s.c.morton@soton.ac.uk
Diasporic Literature and Theory - where now?
Convenor: Dr Mark Shackleton (University of Helsinki)
Email: mark.shackleton@helsinki.fi
Co-convenor: Dr James Procter (University of Stirling)
Email: j.r.procter@stir.ac.uk
Women's Transnational and Diasporic Writing in Contemporary Britain
Convenor: Dr John Stotesbury (University of Joensuu)
Email: john.stotesbury@joensuu.fi
Co-convenor: Dr Sofía Muñoz Valdivieso (University of Málaga)
Email: simunoz@uma.es
English as the Medium of Instruction in European Schools: Analyzing Classroom Discourse
Convenor: Dr Tarja Nikula (University of Jyväskylä)
Email: tnikula@cc.jyu.fi
Co-convenor: Dr Christiane Dalton-Puffer (University of Vienna)
Email: christiane.dalton-puffer@univie.ac.at
British Literary Culture: 1980 to the Present
Convenor: Mr Jon Cook (University of East Anglia)
Email: j.cook@uea.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Dr Regina Rudaityte (University of Vilnius)
Email: reginarudaityte@hotmail.com
The New Imagology
Convenor: Professor Anthony W. Johnson (University of Oulu)
Email: anthony.johnson@oulu.fi
Co-convenor: Professor Bent Soerensen (University of Aalborg)
Email: i12bent@hum.aau.dk
Subjectivity/Intersubjectivity and Stance in Discourses
Convenor: Dr Juana Marín Arrese (Complutense University of Madrid)
Email: juana@filol.ucm.es
Co-convenor: Dr Laurent Rouveyrol (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Email: laurouveyrol@aol.com
Discourse Analysis as an Analytical Resource for Cultural Studies in English
Convenor: Dr Eduardo de Gregorio-Godeo (University of Castilla-La Mancha)
Email: eduardo.gregorio@uclm.es
Co-convenor: Dr Damian S. Pyrkosz (University of Rzeszów)
Email: daspy@univ.rzeszow.pl
Learned Wit: Scriblerus to Sterne
Convenor: Professor Flavio Gregori (University Ca' Foscari Venezia)
Email: flagre@unive.it
Co-convenor: Dr Thomas Woodman (University of Reading)
Email: t.m.woodman@reading.ac.uk
Internet Fiction(s):
Convenor: Professor Ingrid Hotz-Davies (University of Tübingen)
Email: ingrid.hotz-davies@uni-tuebingen.de
Co-convenor: Professor Sirpa Leppänen (University of Jyväskylä)
Email: sirpa.leppanen@jyu.fi
Literature and Law: an Interdisciplinary Approach
Convenor: Professor Daniela Carpi (University of Verona)
Email: danielacarpi@tin.it
Co-convenor: Professor Ian Ward (University of Newcastle)
Email: ian.ward@newcastle.ac.uk
Milton, Rights and Liberties
Convenor: Professor Neil Forsyth (University of Lausanne)
Email: neil.forsyth@unil.ch
Co-convenor: Dr Christophe Tournu (Université Pierre Mendès, France)
Email: christophe.tournu@wanadoo.fr
British & European: the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill
Convenor: Professor Jennifer Kilgore (University of Caen)
Email: jennifer.kilgore@unicaen.fr / jkilgore@wanadoo.fr
Co-convenor: Professor Jeffrey Wainwright (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Email: j.wainwright@mmu.ac.uk
Pragmatic and Discourse-analytic Approaches to Present-day English
Convenor: Professor Anita Fetzer (University of Lüneburg)
Email: fetzer@uni-lueneburg.de
Co-convenor: Professor Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg)
Email: karin.aijmer@eng.gu.se
W.H. Auden: His Work and His Legacy
Convenor: Dr Craig Hamilton (University of California at Irvine)
Email: cahamilt@uci.edu
Co-convenor: Dr Peter Howarth (University of Nottingham)
Email: peter.howarth@nottingham.ac.uk
Literature and Medicine
Convenor: Dr Ulrika Maude (University of Durham)
Email: ulrika.maude@durham.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Dr Nieves Pascual (University of Jaén)
Email: npascual@ujaen.es
Bilingualism, Code-switching and Language Mixing in the History of English
Convenor: Professor Dr Herbert Schendl (University of Vienna)
Email: herbert.schendl@univie.ac.at
Co-convenor: Dr Laura Wright (Cambridge University)
Email: lc.wright@ukonline.co.uk
Revenants and Hauntings in Neo-Victorian Fiction
Convenor: Dr Patricia Pulham (University of Portsmouth)
Email: patricia.pulham@port.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Dr Rosario Arias (University of Málaga)
Email: rarias@cica.es
Academic Discourse: Language Variation across Written and Spoken Genres
Convenor: Professor Marina Bondi (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Email: mbondi@unimo.it
Co-convenor: Professor John M. Swales (University of Michigan)
Email: jmswales@umich.edu
WITHDRAWN
Language Attitudes and Ideologies
English in International Corporate Communication
Convenor: Dr Giuliana Garzone (University of Milan)
Email: giuliana.garzone@unimi.it
Co-convenor: Dr Catherine Nickerson (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Email: c.nickerson@let.ru.nl
The Politics of Waste
Convenor: Dr Effie Yiannopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Email: yiannopo@enl.auth.gr
Co-convenor: Dr Maria Margaroni (University of Cyprus)
Email: flmarga@ucy.ac.cy
The Role of Female Voices in Constructing Fictional Maps of Multicultural Britain
Convenor: Dr Giovanna Buonanno (University of Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Email: gbuonanno@unimore.it
Co-convenor: Dr Sebnem Toplu (Ege University, Izmir)
Email: sebnemtoplu@hotmail.com
Medieval Mystical Texts: Exchange and Influence between England and the Continent
Convenor: Dr E. A. Jones (University of Exeter)
Email: e.jones@ex.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Dr Marleen Cré (University of Antwerp)
Email: marleen.cre@ua.ac.be
International Relations and Foreign Policies
Convenor: Professor Michael Parsons (University of Pau)
Email: michael.parsons@univ-pau.fr
Co-convenor: Dr Miklos Lojko (Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest)
Email: mlojko@mail.datanet.hu
The Writer, the Collection and the Museum
Convenor: Professor Barrie Bullen (University of Reading)
Email: b.b.bullen@reading.ac.uk
Co-convenor: Professor Caroline Patey (University of Milan)
Email: caroline.patey@unimi.it
The City as a Stage for Social, Political and Cultural Movements
Convenor: Professor François Poirier (University of Paris 13)
Email: fpoirier@upn.univ-paris13.fr
Co-convenor: Professor Logie Barrow (University of Bremen)
Projections of Paradise in Migrant Literature
Convenor: Dr Helga Ramsey-Kurz (University of Innsbruck)
Email: helga.ramsey-kurz@uibk.ac.at
Co-convenor: Dr Geetha Ganapathy-Doré (University of Paris 13)
Email: geethagd@hotmail.com
Teaching British (Area) Studies through Analysis of Media Discourses
Convenor: Dr Slavka Tomascikova (University of Presov)
Email: slavkakr@saris.unipo.sk
Co-convenor: Dr Jim Bee (Queen Margaret University College)
Email: jbee@qmuc.ac.uk
Emotion, Language and Literature
Convenor: Dr Nely Keinänen (University of Helsinki)
Email: nely.keinanen@helsinki.fi
Co-convenor: Dr Cristina Soriano (University of Murcia)
Email: csoriano@um.es
When the World Turned Upside-Down: Post-1989 Eastern Europe in English Literatures and Film
Convenor: Dr Kathleen Starck (University of Bremen)
Email: starck@uni-bremen.de
Co-convenor: Dr Alyce von Rothkirch (Community University of the Valleys)
Email: alyce.vonrothkirch@newport.ac.uk
Shakespeare's Language: Stylistic and Linguistic Approaches
Convenor: Dr Mireille Ravassat (University of Valenciennes)
Email: mireilleravassat@tele2.fr
Co-convenor: Dr Jonathan Hope (Strathclyde University)
Email: jonathan.r.hope@strath.ac.uk
Speech Act History of English
Convenor: Professor Dr Andreas Jucker (University of Zürich)
Email: ahjucker@es.unizh.ch
Co-convenor: Professor Irma Taavitsainen (University of Helsinki)
Email: taavitsa@mappi.helsinki.fi
The Language of Late Mediæval Scribes and Early Modern Printers
Convenor: Dr Jacob Thaisen (De Montfort University)
Email: thaisen@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Co-convenor: Dr Hanna Rutkowska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Email: rhanna@ifa.amu.edu.pl
Representations of Fluid Identities
Convenor: Professor Dr Nuvid Alemdaroglu (Celal Bayar University)
Email: nuvidmortan@hotmail.com
Co-convenor: Professor Donatella Abbate Badin (University of Turin)
Email: donatella.badin@unito.it
Women Write Back: Irish Women, Identities and Nationhood
Convenor: Professor Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan (University of Zagreb)
Email: ljgjurgj@ffzg.hr
Co-convenor: Dr. Tina O'Toole (University of Limerick)
Email: tina.otoole@ul.ie
Mind, Knowledge, Learning 1300-1700
Convenor: Professor Kathleen E. Dubs (Ružomberok Catholic University)
Email: kedubs@axelero.hu
Co-convenor: Professor Fabiny Tibor (Pázmány Péter Catholic University)
Email: fabiny_tibor@hotmail.com
Gothic Sublime / Subliminal Gothic
Convenor: Dr Max Duperray (University of Provence)
Email: max.duperray@free.fr
Co-convenor: Professor David Punter (University of Bristol)
Email: david.punter@bris.ac.uk
The Reception of the Arts in Georgian Britain
Convenor: Professor Jacques Carré (University of Paris 4, Sorbonne)
E-mail: jcarre63@yahoo.fr
Co-convenor: Professor Peter Wagner (University of Landau)
E-mail: uldpw@rz.uni-saarland.de
Riots in Literature
Convenor: Dr Gerald Porter (University of Vaasa)
E-mail: gepo@uwasa.fi
Co-convenor: Dr David Bell (University of Lund)
E-mail: david.bell@englund.lu.se
The Relevance of the Real: Contemporary Reflections
Convenor: Professor Philip Tew (University of Northampton)
Email: tewp@ukf.net
Co-Convenor: Mihaela Irimia (University of Bucharest)
Email: mihaela.irimia@b.astral.ro
