Programme

Confirmed speakers

Calvo Cortés, Nuria (Complutense University of Madrid) & Dossena, Marina (University of Bergamo): Views from Afar: When (Grand)nephews Looked at Famous Novelists

Cox, Brenda S. (Independent researcher from Atlanta, Georgia): Semantic Change and Jane Austen's Religious Vocabulary 

De la Cruz-Cabanillas, Isabel (University of Alcalá) & Ruano-García, Javier (University of Salamanca): 'My eyes are pretty well, I thank you'. On the use of intensifiers in Jane Austen's early letters

Diego Rodríguez, Irene & Gómez Galisteo, Carmen (UNED): Jane Austen’s partial, prejudiced and ignorant perspectives on English monarchs: From Henry IV to Charles I

Fernández Soriano, Blanca & López Narváez, Julia (Complutense University of Madrid): "You must not expect Scandal": Analysing deontic modality in Jane Austen's Teenage Writings

García Soria, Cinthia (translator and independent researcher from Mexico City): Partial, prejudiced and ignorant? Some difficulties in translating Jane Austen's juvenile works into Spanish // ¿Parcial, prejuiciosa e ignorante? Algunas dificultades de la traducción al español de las obras juveniles de Jane Austen

González-Díaz, Victorina (Liverpool University): “Intimations of more serious things to come”: Round brackets in Austen’s Juvenilia

Jimenez Carra, Nieves (University of Malaga): Emma for young readers. An analysis of a specially annotated and prefaced translation of Jane Austen's novel into Spanish

López Medina, Beatriz (Complutense University of Madrid): A Lady's Pursuit of Literacy: The Practices of Reading and Writing in Austen’s Time and Works

Nadales Ruiz, Marta (Complutense University of Madrid): Jane Austen’s ‘great-granddaughters’: A linguistic analysis of the construction of female childhood in biographic discourse (1881-1890)

Plaza Tejedor, Gemma (Complutense University of Madrid): 'I could die of laughter of it, as theu used to say at school': Jane Austen's perspectives on girls' education

Rodríguez Redondo, Ana Laura (Complutense University of Madrid): Looking for the genesis of Jane Austen's ironic voice: emphasizers and intensifiers in her Juvenilia work

Santé Delgado, María Teresa (Complutense University of Madrid): Sisterly Elizabeth, Sisterly Anne: how dialogues depict bonds in Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion 

Tejada Caller, Paloma (Complutense University of Madrid): Recasting Jane Austen's childhood: Spanish-cross cultural construals

Wood, Breckyn (Independent researcher from Atlanta, Georgia): Tense and Specificity: Jane Austen the Editor