<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <HTML lang=en xml:lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <HEAD><TITLE>Nation and Identity in 19th and 20th Century Literature in English</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="Nation and Identity 19th and 20th Century Literature in English" name=description> <META content="conference nation identity literature english ucam" name=keywords> <LINK href="Recursos_archivos/msvs_template_rounded_divs.css" type=text/css rel=stylesheet> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY><!-- SITE NAME & SLOGAN --> <DIV id=header-container> <DIV id=header-left style="width: 740px"><P>II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATION AND IDENTITY IN 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH</P> <p>&nbsp;</p> </DIV> </DIV> <!-- TOP NAV --> <DIV class=mainnav-container> <DIV class=mainnav-left style="width: 750px"> <UL> <LI><A title="Home" href="Index.htm">Home</A> <LI><A title="Conference Programme" href="Programme.htm">Programme</A> <LI><A title="Registration" href="Registration.htm">Registration</A> <LI><A title="Accommodation" href="Accommodation.htm">Accommodation</A> <LI><A title="Organizing Committee" href="Organization.htm">Organization</A> <LI><A title="Keynote Speakers" href="Speakers.htm">Speakers</A> <LI><A title="Call for Papers" href="Papers.htm">Papers</A> <LI><A title="Travel Planning" href="Travel.htm">Travel</A> </LI></UL></DIV> <DIV class=clear></DIV></DIV><!-- CONTENT --> <DIV id=content-container><!-- SIDE COLUMN --> <!-- MAIN CONTENT AREA --> <DIV id=content> <H1>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS</H1> <h2>Professor Christopher Bigsby</h2> <p>Christopher Bigsby is Professor of American Studies at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK). He has published more than thirty books on aspects of English and American culture, from African American literature and popular culture to theatre: <em>Writers in Conversation with Christopher Bigsby</em> (2 vols), <em>Confrontation and Commitment, Edward Albee, David Mamet, Joe Orton, Dada and Surrealism, Approaches to Popular Culture, The Second Black Renaissance, A Critical Introduction to 20th American Drama</em> (3 vols), <em>Modern American Drama 1945-2000 , The Cambridge Companion to Arthur Miller and Contemporary American Dramatists </em>published by CUP in 1999. He is also joint editor (with Don Wilmeth at Brown University ) of <em>The Cambridge History of the American Theatre</em> (3 vols). In 2000 and 2001 he published two volumes of his interviews with writers. He is the author of four novels: <em>Hester, Pearl , Still Lives</em> and <em>Beautiful Dreamer</em> and has written for radio and television. He is a regular broadcaster and organiser of an annual <em>International Literary Festival</em>. He is Director of <em>The Arthur Miller Centre</em>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Professor Stephen Arata </h2> <p>Stephen Arata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching focus primarily on British literature and culture between 1830 and 1930. He is the author of <em>Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle </em>(Cambridge University Press, 1996) and the editor of Broadview Literary Texts editions of William Morris's <em>News from Nowhere </em>(2002) and George Gissing's <em>New Grub Street</em> (2007). Other recent publications include essays on Walter Scott, Oscar Wilde, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Morris, and Joseph Conrad. Forthcoming in 2007-08 are chapters on  Late-Victorian Realism for the <em>Cambridge Companion to the Fin de Siècle</em> and on  The Fin de Siècle for the <em>New Cambridge History of English Literature</em>, as well as a Norton Critical Edition of H. G. Wells s <em>The Time Machine</em>. He is currently at work on a book manuscript tentatively titled <em>Paying Attention: The Discipline of Reading in Britain 1870-1921</em>.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h2>Dr Jane Goldman</h2> <p>Dr Jane Goldman is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). She is a General Editor of the Cambridge University Press Edition of the Writings of Virginia Woolf. Prior to her appointment at Glasgow, she taught at the University of Dundee and at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of <em>The Feminist Aesthetics of Virginia Woolf: Modernism, Post-Impressionism and the Politics of the Visual </em>(Cambridge UP, 1998) and co-editor of <em>Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents </em>(Edinburgh UP & Chicago UP 1998). Her recent publications include <em>Modernism, 1910-1945: Image to Apocalypse</em> (Palgrave, 2004) and <em>The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf </em>(Cambridge UP, 2006). She is editor of Woolf s <em>To the Lighthouse</em> for Cambridge, and is currently writing a book, <em>Virginia Woolf and the Signifying Dog</em>. Her research and teaching interests include: Modernism and the Avant-Garde, Virginia Woolf Studies, Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Fiction, Literary Theory (including theories of gender, sexuality and feminism), American Literature, Comparative Literature, interartistic analogy, and canine aesthetics. She is particularly interested in the work of Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Nathanael West, and Kurt Schwitters. 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