International Conference: Authors as Characters in Fiction, Film and Graphic Narratives.
Location and dates: Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France). 12-13 March 2026.
Deadline for proposal submissions: 1 September 2025.
Venue details: 91 Avenue de la Libération, Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France).
Event description
The aim of this international and interdisciplinary conference is to understand the fetishisation of English-speaking canonical authors (such as William Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Mary Shelley, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway), the ‘versioning’ (Silver xvi) of their texts and images, the fabrication of myths which are ‘endlessly repeated and woven into culture’ (Miller xiii), the relationship between auctoriality and celebrity, and artistic and historiographic representations.
It will include three main generic perspectives: biofiction, biopics, graphic biofiction (see CFP).
Keynote Speakers:
- Stephanie Barron (author)
- Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University of London)
- Belén Vidal (King’s College London)
- Xavier Giudicelli (Université Paris Nanterre)
Submission guidelines: We invite proposals for individual papers or panels. Please submit paper proposals (which should include the title of the paper, author(s), a 250-300-word abstract, institutional affiliation, contact information and a short bio-bibliography) before 1st September 2025, to the following address: idea-authors-as-characters-contact@univ-lorraine.fr.
A selection of articles will be published in 2027.
Website address
All information about the conference and the conference website will be posted at the IDEA website address.
Contact details
idea-authors-as-characters-contact@univ-lorraine.fr
CFP
For further details, please check the original call inserted below.
CFP_Authors_Characters(Posted 10 March 2025)