Programme of Events

Conference Day 1 (Wednesday 25th November)

Live (via Blackboard Collaborate):

10am (GMT): Dr John Miller (University of Sheffield), presenting on "Post-Meat Landscapes in Utopian and Science Fiction". This talk will be followed by a Q&A discussion.

2pm (GMT): PhD Roundtable, which includes themes surrounding: applying for a PhD, applying for funding, the day-to-day life of a PhD student, presenting talks and conferences, becoming a graduate teaching assistant, and more. There will be opportunities to ask questions. (Features discussions from our conference committee, who are currently PhD students at the University of Sheffield - this talk is particularly aimed at those interested in undertaking a PhD)

Website:

9am (GMT): Panels will be released to the website, including live discussion boards (via Padlet). Academic papers will be presented on the following topics: Disappearing Landscapes, Female Landscapes, Queer Landscapes and Travel Writing. Creative readings will also be released which feature a range of short stories, poetry, photography and short films.

Disappearing Landscapes

• Andrea Ashworth (Edge Hill University): "Landscapes of the Dragonfly: Writing Fiction that Engages with the Natural World"

• Michał Krawczyk (Griffith University): "Dwelling with the Earth Others"

Female Landscapes

• Bryony Aitchison (University of York): "Amy Lowell's Poetic Swordplay in the Avant Garden"

• Jun Qiang (University of York): "The American Countryhouse and Ambiguous Female Consciousness in Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth"

• Karen Jane Cannon (University of Southampton): "Reclaim. Re-emerge. Re-imagine. Female Landsape & the 'I Voice'"

Queer Landscapes

• Christopher Wells (University of Sheffield): "The 'Landscape of Compulsory Monosexuality': 'Unotherable' Bisexuality as Modernist Heterotopia, 1900-1930"

• Emily Pritchard (University of York): "'Like a Tree Breathing Through its Spectacles': The Queer Trees of Frank O-Hara"

• Mhairi Montgomery (University of Oxford): "Policing Gender - Transmisogyny in Public Space"

• Siobhan Scarlett O'Reilly (University of Hertfordshire): "Queer Futurity in Music and Internet Culture"

Travel Writing

• Dave McLaughlin (University of York): "'The Landscape is Constantly Changing and Adapting Like the People that Hike Up There': Appalachian Hiker Journals - A Project in Collective Landscape Writing"

• Steven Burke (Sheffield Hallam University): "Romantic and Empirical Landscapes: Travellers’ Tales from Post-Napoleonic Atlantic Peripheries"

Creative Landscapes

• Benjamin Dorey (University of Sheffield): "The Shadow’s Dance"

• Bijal Vachharajani (Senior Editor at Pratham Books in Bangalore, India): "But this is what I have now"

• Joanna Dobson (Sheffield Hallam University): "The Storied Allotment"

• Radha Rangarajan (Editor for Nature inFocus in Bangalore, India): "Along Land’s End"

Conference Day 2 (Thursday 26th November)

Live (via Blackboard Collaborate):

11am (GMT): Professor Madhu Krishnan (University of Bristol), presenting on "Contemporary African Writing and the Landscapes of Literary Production". This talk will be followed by a Q&A discussion.

Website:

9am (GMT): Panels will be released to the website, including live discussion boards (via Padlet). Academic papers will be presented on the following topics: Political Landscapes, Gothic Landscapes and Watery Landscapes. Creative readings will also be released which feature a range of short stories, poetry, photography and short films.

Political Landscapes

• Erin Hallenbeck (University of Oxford): "Arborescent Structures and Rhizomatic Politics: White Supremacy Culture and Heteronormativity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and Audre Lorde’s Zami"

• Robert Nield (University of Sheffield): "The Moral Landscape in Labouring Class Romantic Poetry"

• Roseanna Kettle (University of York): "Barbauld’s ‘Altered Landscape’: Warrington, Unitarian Innovation and the Poetics of Transformation"

Gothic Landscapes

• Catherine Greenwood (University of Sheffield): "Defrosting the Gothic (or, Baked Alaska): Eco-gothic Poetry in a Melting Sublime"

• Sofia Lago (University of Bristol): '"Its mixture of weird terror and gentle passion': Haunted Landscapes and the Nineteenth-Century Ghost Story"

Watery Landscapes

• Rowan Jaines (University of Sheffield): "Material Manifestations of Loss in the Cambridgeshire Fens"

• Tyler Lutz (Yale University): "Reading on the Line; or, the Wall: Moby Dick and the Whale Watching"

Creative Landscapes

• Rosanne van der Voet (University of Sheffield): "Stories of the Sea - Writing the Anthropocene"

• Rosie Crocker (University of Sheffield): "Dunelm"

• Sophie Parkes-Nield (Sheffield Hallam University): "Procession"

• Steven Burke (Sheffield Hallam University): "Medial Superior Temporal: disrupted terrains, finding direction, and turning home"

• Veronica Fibisan (University of Sheffield): "Radical Bluescapes"