April Conference Fourteen, 20-22 April 2017

The Fourteenth International Conference on English and American Literature and Culture

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Plenary Speakers

Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr.

Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr. is Emily Brown Jefferies Professor of English and Claude Henry Neuffer Professor of Southern Studies at the University of South Carolina, where he is Director of the Institute for Southern Studies. j0He has published widely in the literature and culture of the modern US South, including five books: Three Catholic Writers of the Modern South; The Art and Vision of Flannery O’Connor; Katherine Anne Porter’s Artistic Development: Primitivism, Traditionalism, and Totalitarianism; Remapping Southern Literature: Contemporary Southern Writers and the West; and The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950. Professor Brinkmeyer received a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete The Fourth Ghost, which won several awards, including the Association of American Publishers 2009 PROSE Award as the best book published that year in literature, language, and linguistics and the 2009 Warren-Brooks Award for Excellence in Literary Criticism. He is currently working on a study exploring the ways that modern and contemporary Southern writers have used conceptions of craft and handwork to construct versions of Southern identity.

Anne Fogarty

Anne Fogarty is Professor of James Joyce Studies at University College Dublin and founder and co-editor with Luca Crispi of the Dublin James Joyce Journal. She has been Director of the Dublin James Joyce Summer School since 1997. She was Associate Director of the Yeats Summer School 1995-7 and President of the International James Joyce Foundation 2008-2012. She is co-editor with Timothy Martin of Joyce on the Threshold (2005), with Morris Beja of Bloomsday 100: Essays on “Ulysses” (2009), with Éilís Ní Dhuibhne and Eibhear Walshe of Imagination in the Classroom: Teaching and Learning Creative Writing in Ireland (2013), and with Fran O’Rourke of Voices on Joyce (2015). She is currently completing with Marisol Morales Ládron a co-edited collection of essays on the Northern Irish novelist, Deirdre Madden for Manchester University Press, and a monograph on the politics of cultural memory in James Joyce’s Ulysses. She has written widely on aspects of twentieth- and twenty-first century Irish literature, especially fiction.

Hartmut Haberland

Hartmut Haberland is a professor at Roskilde University in Denmark. In 1977, he founded the Journal of Pragmatics together with Jacob Mey. Currently, he is an editor of Pragmatics and Society together with Mey (Chief editor), Hermine Penz and Hans Jørgen Ladegaard, and an editor of Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, the journal of the Linguistic Circle of Copenhagen together with Lars Heltoft, Janus Mortensen, Sune Sønderberg Mortensen and Peter Juul Nielsen. The first widely known work by Haberland was a textbook, entitled “Soziologie + Linguistik. Die schlechte Aufhebung sozialer Ungleichheit durch Sprache” (Hager, Haberland, & Paris, 1973). This book was used at a number of universities in Europe for several years. It was successful in establishing a point of view based on sociology in the study of language.

Hartmut Haberland’s bio from Wiley Encyclopedia available here.

Jonathan Hope

Jonathan Hope is Professor of Literary Linguistics at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. He has published widely on Shakespeare’s language and the history of the English language, and he specializes in digital approaches to Early Modern English. His books include Shakespeare and Language: Reason, eloquence and artifice in the Renaissance (2010); Shakespeare’s Grammar (2003), and Stylistics (1996). With Michael Witmore (Folger Shakespeare Library, USA) and Mike Gleicher (Wisconsin-Madison University, USA) he co-directs the Mellon-funded project Visualising English Print, which develops corpora, tools and procedures for the linguistic analysis of texts across the period 1450-1800 – http://graphics.cs.wisc.edu/WP/vep/. Hope has served as Director for all three iterations of the NEH advanced institute, Early Modern Digital Agendas – http://folgerpedia.folger.edu/Early_Modern_Digital_Agendas.

Carolyne Larrington

Carolyne Larrington is a Professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow and Tutor in medieval English literature at St John’s College, Oxford. She has published widely on Old Norse-Icelandic literature and has translated the Poetic Edda into English (Oxford World’s Classics, 2nd ed. 2014). She works also on topics in European Arthurian literature, emotions in medieval literature and medievalism. Her most recent books are: Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European Literature (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2015), the edited collection (with Frank Brandsma and Corinne Saunders) Emotions in Medieval Arthurian Literature (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2015), and two trade books: The Land of the Green Man: A Journey through the Supernatural Landscapes of the British Isles (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015) and Winter is Coming: The Medieval World of Game of Thrones (London: I. B. Tauris, 2015). She is currently researching emotions in medieval European secular literature and writing a second book on “Game of Thrones,” due 2019.

Hugh Craig

Hugh Craig works at the University of Newcastle in Australia, where he is Director of the Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Centre for 21st Century Humanities. His research interests are in the application of statistics to literary style, especially in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He was on the Attribution Board of the New Oxford Shakespeare and this edition, which came out in 2016, endorses many of the proposals about the Shakespeare canon made in a 2009 book Craig co-edited with Arthur F. Kinney, Shakespeare, Computers, and the Mystery of Authorship. He has long-standing collaborations with colleagues in speech pathology and bioinformatics, from whom he has learned about language metrics and information theory. His recent work focuses on stylistic description rather than attribution. Style, Computers, and Early Modern Drama: Beyond Authorship, written with Brett Greatley-Hirsch, is due out from Cambridge University Press in mid-2017.

Last update: 21st April 2017 by Michał Choiński