Postmodernist Biofictions Conference Schedule
HumSS Building, University of Reading, 25th March 2017
9.00-9.30 – Registration
9.30 – 10.30 – Keynote Lecture 1
Professor Maggie Gee, Bath Spa University
‘Onceness: Biofiction and the Truth of the Individual Body’
10.30 – 11.00 – Tea and Coffee
11.00 – 12.30 – Parallel Panel Session 1
Panel A – Authors and Artists: Fictionalizing the Female Subject
Chair: Madeleine Davies
| Elaine Hudson | Julia Lajta-Novak | Eleanor Knight |
| The Author in the Looking-Glass: Norah Vincent’sAdeline as Reflective Biography
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Postmodern Feminism to Postfeminism:
Generic Layering in Biofictions about Women Artists
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The Trial of Jean Rhys – An Opera:
Transcribing the Authentically Unpleasant Voice of a Literary Icon. |
Panel B – Versions and Subversions: ‘History’ and Biofiction
Chair: David Brauner
| Pedro Ponce | Bronwen Edwards | Vin Arthey |
| The American Presidency: A Conspiratorial History | The Romance of War: Relationships in Biofictions and Biographies about the Women of SOE
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Spy Biography < > Spy Fiction > Spy Biofiction
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12.30-1.30 – Lunch
1.30-2.30 – Professor Susan Sellers, University of St Andrews, Author of Vanessa and Virginia, in conversation with Bethany Layne
2.30-4.00 – Parallel Panel Session 2
Panel C – Auto-Biofiction and Displaced Identities
Chair: Elaine Hudson
| Pauline Eyre | Hannah Yelin | Olga Dzhumaylo |
| Narrating Problem Bodies: Christopher Nolan’s Under the Eye of the Clock | Constructedness and Sexual Trauma in the Biofiction of Pamela Anderson |
Impossibility of Closure in John Fowles’ Autobiographical NovelDaniel Martin |
Panel D – Biofiction and Gender (Student Panel)
Chair: Will Davies
| Chloe DeLullington | Claire Timmerman | Daniel Buckingham | Rachel Morden |
| Unwrapping Lady Lazarus: Female Suicide and Creativity in Biofiction | Sororophilia and Sororophobia in Susan Sellers’ Vanessa and Virginia | De-feminising Fenimore: Positioning the Rival in David Lodge’s Author, Author | Celebrating the “Difficult Women” in The Ballad of Sylvia and Ted |
4.00-4.30 – Tea and Coffee
4.30-5.30 – David Lodge CBE, Author of A Man of Parts and Author, Author, in conversation with Bethany Layne
5.30-6.15 – Plenary roundtable and discussion
Register for the conference here.
