keynote speakers
Aileen Douglas
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(Trinity College Dublin)
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Aileen Douglas is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at Trinity College Dublin, where she teaches in the School of English. Her research interests include print culture, women’s writing, and Irish writing of the long eighteenth century, particularly the works of Jonathan Swift and Maria Edgeworth. Her publications include Work in Hand: Script, Print, and Writing (OUP, 2017), and a co-edition of The Vicar of Wakefield for The Collected Works of Oliver Goldsmith (CUP, 2024).
Andrew Gibson
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(Emeritus, Royal Holloway)
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Andrew Gibson is Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he ended his full-time career as Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory. He has long had an international profile, lecturing around the world on many themes. He was for some years a member of the Conseil Scientifique of the Collège Internationale de Philosophie in Paris, and also worked on its Comité de Selection. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Tokyo, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice in Adelaide and Northwestern University, Chicago, where he was Carole and Gordon Visiting Professor in Irish Studies. His many books include Badiou and Beckett: The Pathos of Intermittency (2006), Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy (2010), Misanthropy: The Critique of Humanity (2017), Modernity and the Political Fix (2019) and J.M. Coetzee and Neoliberal Culture (2022). He was founder and until 2016 the organizer of the Charles Peake (University of London) Seminar for Research into Joyce’s Ulysses, and has for many years been a permanent member of the Editorial Board of the James Joyce Quarterly in the USA. His prolific work specifically on Joyce includes Joyce’s Revenge: History, Politics and Aesthetics in 'Ulysses' (2002), James Joyce: A Critical Life (2010) and The Strong Spirit: History, Politics and Aesthetics 1898-1915 (2012). He is general editor of the new Penguin editions of Joyce’s work (2026), editing Ulysses and Exiles himself.
Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
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(Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry)
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Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin is Professor in Shakespeare studies at the Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry (France) and a member of the IRCL, Institute for Research on the Renaissance, the Neo-classical Age and the Enlightenment (UMPV/CNRS/Ministère de la Culture). She has published extensively on Shakespeare’s evil tongues (The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare’s World, 2022; Shakespeare’s Insults: A Pragmatic Dictionary, 2016; The Unruly Tongue in Early Modern England: Three Treatises, 2012). She is general coeditor of the CUP Shakespeare on Screen collection and of the “Shakespeare on Screen in Francophonia” database. She is co-editor-in-chief of the international journal Cahiers Elisabéthains (Sage) and of the online journal Arrêt sur Scène/Scene Focus.
More information: https://nvienneguerrin.jimdofree.com/production-scientifique/
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