Relational
Forms IX
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Keynote Speakers
Sustainable Objects?:
Books, Screens and Creative Transit in the Cultures of the English Language
Bill Bell
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(University of Cardiff)
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Bill Bell is Professor of Bibliography at Cardiff University, a Corresponding Fellow of the Munich Centre for Advanced Studies, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the General Editor of the Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (4 vols) and was for several years the Editor of the OUP quarterly, The Library. He was co-author of Travels into Print: Exploration, Writing, and Publishing with John Murray (Chicago, 2015) and his latest book is Crusoe's Books: Readers in the Empire of Print, 1800-1918 (OUP). In 2024-25 he will be taking up a fellowship at the University of Helsinki to work on his forthcoming book, Utopian Things.
Alan gillis
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(University of Edinburgh)
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Alan Gillis is Professor of Modern Poetry at The University of Edinburgh. His fifth poetry collection The Readiness was published by Picador in 2020. He has previously been nominated for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and named a ‘Next Generation Poet’. As critic he is editor of The Oxford Handbook of Modern Irish Poetry, author of Irish Poetry of the 1930s, and was also editor of Edinburgh Review.
Diana Henderson
(MIT)
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Diana E. Henderson, Arthur J. Conner Professor of Literature and MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT, is the author of Collaborations with the Past: Reshaping Shakespeare Across Time and Media and Passion Made Public: Elizabethan Lyric, Gender, and Performance. She edited Alternative Shakespeares 3 and A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, and is co-editor of the annual Shakespeare Studies (Volumes XLII-LI thus far), Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy (2021) and The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation (2022). Henderson has published more than 50 essays on Shakespeare, early modern gender studies, domestic culture, poetry, drama, popular culture, modern performance, Nahum Tate, pedagogy, Ulysses, and Indian cinema. She has worked as a professional and university dramaturg, collaborated with the RSC in the creation of an original play and a game prototype, and served as the 2013-14 President of the Shakespeare Society of America. She is the PI for MIT’s Global Shakespeares Merchant Module and has collaborated on aligned curricular initiatives. In 2018 she appeared on two episodes of the PBS series Shakespeare Uncovered, and has more recently appeared on podcasts with Varsha Panjwani and Thomas Dabbs.
