Plenary Speakers

Philip Edward Phillips (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is professor of English and associate dean of the University Honors College at Middle Tennessee State University, where he has taught American, British, and early European literature for over twenty-five years. He has held research fellowships at the Newberry Library, the Boston Athenaeum, and the W.T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies at Vanderbilt University.

He is the president (2014-2016 and 2022-present) of the Poe Studies Association (PSA) and former program chair of the PSA’s international conferences in Kyoto (2018) and Boston (2022). He is co-organizer and co-program chair of the international conference in Paris (2025). He was a participant in the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association (EAPSA)’s previous international conference in Albacete and Toledo.

His most recent book project is an edited collection of essays, Poe Spaces: Within and Beyond the Spatial Turn, forthcoming from Palgrave, which is a companion to Poe and Place, published by Palgrave, which received the PSA’s J. Lasley Dameron Award for 2018.

He has published Poe-related chapters in Animals in the American Classics (TAMUP, 2022), The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe (2019), Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)national Canons (Lehigh, 2020), Edgar Allan Poe in Twenty Objects (Johns Hopkins, 2016), Edgar Allan Poe in Context (Cambridge, 2013), Deciphering Poe: Subtexts, Contexts, and Subversive Meanings (Lehigh, 2013), and MLA’s Approaches to Teaching Poe’s Prose and Poetry (2008), as well as reviews in Poe Studies, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and Choice.

Eulalia Piñero Gil is Full Professor of American Literature and Gender Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has served as President of the Spanish Association for American Studies (SAAS), and as member of the Board of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), and of the Spanish Association of Anglo-American Studies (AEDEAN). She graduated in Comparative Literature and English at Purdue University and was awarded several grants to research the work of Edgar A. Poe at Indiana University, Toronto University, and the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia. She has published extensively on the American Renaissance, women’s literature, gender studies, music and literature and comparative literature. She has published several peer-reviewed book chapters on

Edgar Allan Poe’s fiction and edited a critical edition of his short stories in Spanish, Narraciones Extraordinarias de Edgar Allan Poe. Currently, her work on Poe focuses on the popular culture of necrolatry and thanatography and his influence on Spanish 19th century writers such as Emilia Pardo Bazán. She has translated and edited works by American writers such as Herman Melville, Kate Chopin, John Dos Passos and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Recently, she has coedited the book Live Deep and Suck all the Marrow of Life: H.D. Thoreau’s Literary Legacy. She is a member of the Kate Chopin International Advisory Committee and the editor of the website’s bibliography page in Spanish. In 2023, she was awarded a travel scholarship to visit Lilly Library at Indiana University in Bloomington where she had the opportunity to research the J.K. Lilly Collection of Edgar Allan Poe. She is a member of the Edgar Allan Poe Spanish Association (EAPSA).