Keynote Speakers & Guest Writers
Keynote Speakers
Peter Boxall is Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written a number of books on the novel, including Twenty-First-Century Fiction (2013), The Value of the Novel (2015), and The Prosthetic Imagination (2020, winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell prize). He has written books on Samuel Beckett and Don DeLillo, and his edited collections include 1001 Books (2006), volume 7 of The Oxford History of the Novel (with Bryan Cheyette, 2016), and the Cambridge Companion to British Fiction: 1980-2018 (2019). He has been editor of Textual Practice since 2009. His volume of collected essays, The Possibility of Literature, came out in 2024, and he is currently at work on a book entitled Fictions of the West.
Liliane Louvel is Professor emerita at the University of Poitiers (FORELLIS). She has written numerous articles and published five books on contemporary British literature and word/image relationships: L'œil du texte ( PUM 1998), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Le double miroir de l'art (Ellipses, 2000), Texte/image, images à lire et textes à voir ( PUR 2002), Le tiers pictural, PUR 2010. Translations are available as: Poetics of the Iconotext, tr. L. Petit, ed. K. Jacobs, Ashgate 2011 and The Pictorial Third an Essay into Intermedial Criticism, tr. A. Tseti, Routledge 2018. She has also edited several collections of essays including, EJES, Word/image, EJES, …Like Painting, La licorne and PURennes II, les Actes du colloque de Cerisy : Texte/image nouveaux problèmes with H. Scepi. Actes du colloque de Cerisy Littérature et photographie with J-P Montier, P Ortel et D Méhaut, PUR. Also of note: Intermedial Arts, with L Eilitta and S Kim, Cambridge Scholars Press 2012. Musing in the Museum, with L Petit end K Brown, Word /Image, Taylor and Francis, (2015). Her monograph on Stanley Spencer, un visionnaire du quotidien, is to be published by Presses de la Sorbonnein 2025.
She was the former president of SAES (French Association of English academics) and ESSE, The European Society for the Study of English. She is the President of IAWIS/AIERTI (the International Association for Word and Image Studies) and a member of the executive of ISIS. Liliane Louvel was made a chevalier.e dans l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur in 2011.
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