Plenary Speakers
Abstracts will soon be published
Professor Mary K. Holland
State University of New York
New Paltz, USA
State University of New York
New Paltz, USA
Mary K. Holland is Professor of English at the State University of New York, New Paltz, where she teaches contemporary literature, women’s writing, and theory. She is the author of The Moral Worlds of Contemporary Realism (Bloomsbury 2020) and Succeeding Postmodernism: Language and Humanism in Contemporary American Literature (Bloomsbury 2013), and co-editor of #MeToo and Literary Studies: Reading, Writing, and Teaching about Sexual Violence and Rape Culture (Bloomsbury 2021) and Approaches to Teaching the Works of David Foster Wallace (MLA 2019). Currently, she’s working on an edited collection called Broken Record: Narratives of Gendered Abuse in Academia and a trade book about misogyny and sexual abuse. She has published articles and book chapters on the works of Rachel Cusk, Steve Tomasula, Ruth Ozeki, David Foster Wallace, A. M. Homes, Don DeLillo, Mark Danielewski, and many other contemporary writers.
Professor Daniel Katz
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Professor Daniel Katz teaches on the English and Comparative Literary Studies program. His research mostly focuses on modernism and its aftermath extending to the present day, with a special interest in poetry and poetics. His edition of Jack Spicer's uncollected poetry and plays — Be Brave To Things: The Uncollected Poetry and Plays of Jack Spicer (Wesleyan UP, 2021) — has just been published, following his critical study, The Poetry of Jack Spicer (Edinburgh UP, 2013). Recent and forthcoming articles and chapters include pieces on Samuel Beckett's poetry, William Carlos Williams, Ben Lerner, Peter Gizzi, Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein, and an article on "Sublimation and Symptom" for "The Bloomsbury Handbook on Literature and Psychoanalysis" (forthcoming, 2023). He has been an Executive Board member of the Samuel Beckett Society, and co-director of Warwick's Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. Founding Editor of the book series "Bloomsbury Studies in Critical Poetics," Daniel is currently at work on a new monograph to appear with Oxford University Press: "The Big Lie of the Personal: Poetry, Politics, and the Lyric Subject," which will examine poets such as Yeats, Neruda, Aragon, Bob Kaufman, Robert Duncan, and Denise Riley, as well as others who have come to prominence in the 21st century. He welcomes applications from potential doctoral students in modernism (especially Beckett and Pound) and contemporary avant-gardes, American poetry, twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics, critical theory (particularly psychoanalysis, translation and multilingualism, and post-Derridean thought), and his other areas of expertise, and looks favourably on comparatist problematics and work across languages (especially French, Spanish, and Italian) or national literatures.
Dr. Yasna Bozhkova
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Paris, France
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Paris, France
Currently a Lecturer at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Dr. Yasna Bozhkova will join Université Paris Nanterre as an Associate Professor of American Literature in September 2023. Her research focuses on intertextual, intermedial and cross-genre poetics from transatlantic modernism and the historical avant-gardes to the present day. She is the author of Between Worlds: Mina Loy’s Aesthetic Itineraries (Clemson UP / Liverpool UP, “Seminal Modernisms” series, 2022). She is also the co-editor of The Wanderings of Modernism: Errancy, Identity, and Aesthetics in Interwar Modernist Literature (Clemson UP, forthcoming in 2024), and of a special issue on “Modernist Transmission(s)” (Sillages critiques, forthcoming in 2025). Her most recent projects revolve around contemporary avant-garde poetics, particularly intertextual forms of dialogue between contemporary authors and their modernist predecessors, collaborative practices creating exchanges between literature and visual art, and cross-genre experiments blurring poetic and critical discourse. Her recent and forthcoming publications include articles on contemporary poets like Ben Lerner, Sarah Howe, Suzannah V. Evans, Jen Bervin, Max Porter and Evelyn Reilly. Since 2021, she has been the secretary of the Société d’études modernistes.