Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches – Second Call for Papers
Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches - Second Call for Papers
Published:
Toruń, 25-26 March 2025 Onsite and Online Sessions The year 2025 will mark the centenary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth (1925-1964). This widely acknowledged American author of Irish origin is part of not only American but also world literary heritage. For several decades, her novels, short stories, essays and letters have posed a challenge to critics, readers, editors and translators alike, not to mention common readership.
Second Call for Papers
Culture and Space Series
Remembering Flannery O’Connor 100 Years after Her Birthday: Transnational, Intersectional and Multidisciplinary Approaches
Toruń, 25-26 March 2025
Onsite and Online Sessions
The year 2025 will mark the centenary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth (1925-1964). This widely acknowledged American author of Irish origin is part of not only American but also world literary heritage. For several decades, her novels, short stories, essays and letters have posed a challenge to critics, readers, editors and translators alike, not to mention common readership.
The conference will be organized into thematic sessions and round-table discussions devoted to the following subjects:
- O’Connor’s works across various media (drawings, paintings, film, theatre, interactive narratives)
- Reception of O’Connor’s works during her lifetime and since then
- O’Connor’s work and biography seen through contemporary literary theories
- Paratextual approaches to O’Connor’s works
- Reconsiderations of the American Southern Gothic
- O’Connor’s works in art and through art.
Abstract Submission:
Please, send your abstracts (ca. 200 words) followed by a short biographical note (ca. 150 words) to flanneryoconnor@umk.pl by 15 November 2024. Please include the information concerning the form of presentation: onsite or online. We will be sending notes of proposal acceptance afterwards, no later than by 30 November 2024.
Conference Fees, Travel and Accommodation
There is no conference fee for onsite and online speakers. Please make your own travel
and accommodation arrangements if you are considering coming to Toruń. We offer our help in finding train/coach connections in Poland and hotels in Toruń.
Conference Organizers:
Department of American Literature and Literary Translation, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Department of History of Modern and Non-European Art, Faculty of Fine Arts, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń
Conference Co-organizers:
Flannery O’Connor Society
European Network for Short Fiction Research
Patrons:
European Association for American Studies
Polish Association for American Studies
Irish Culture Foundation
Fulbright Alumni Association
Alumni Association, U.S. State Department Exchange Programs