Speakers

Asko Nivala is an Adjunct Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku (Finland). His research project 'Romantic Cartographies: Lived and Imagined Space in English and German Romantic Texts, 1790–1840' studies spatiality in English and German Romanticism and is funded by the Academy of Finland. In addition, Nivala has studied Friedrich Schlegel's philosophy of history, and the Romantic roots of The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot.

Brecht de Groote is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation, Interpretation, and Communication of the University of Ghent. His research focuses on the Romantic period. He is particularly interested in the nature and legacies of late-Romantic writing. He investigates the ways in which British culture is shaped by ideas of translation and mediation, particularly as it engages with France and Germany. Brecht previously held (post)doctoral positions at the Universities of Leuven and the University of Edinburgh. He has articles published or forthcoming in Studies in Romanticism, Romanticism, and the European Romantic Review, amongst other venues. He also has a monograph with Edinburgh UP, Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation.

Dr Carmen Casaliggi is a Reader in English at Cardiff Metropolitan University. Her research interests include Romantic literature and art, the relationship between British and European Romanticism, Romantic literary circles, and the work of John Ruskin. She has published a wide range of journal articles and book chapters and her books include: Ruskin in Perspective: Contemporary Essays (Cambridge Scholars, 2007; ed. with Paul March-Russell); Legacies of Romanticism: Literature, Culture, Aesthetics (Routledge, 2012; ed. with Paul March-Russell); Romanticism: A Literary and Cultural History (Routledge, 2016; with Porscha Fermanis); and Using Interactive Digital Narrative in Science and Health Education (Emerald, 2021). She is currently working on a monograph entitled Romantic Networks in Europe: Transnational Encounters, 1786-1850 to be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2022 for the series Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. She was awarded Fellowships at Maynooth University (2019-2020) and Yale University (Lewis Walpole Library) (2020-2021) to conduct research on this new project. She is guest editor for a special issue entitled “Housing Romanticism” for the European Romantic Review due to be published in 2022.

Ioana Bican (Ioana Bot) is lecturing in the fields of Romanian literature, the history of literary ideas and cultural mediation, in the Department of Romanian literature and literary theory at the UBB Faculty of Letters (Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She is the former director of the UBB Doctoral School of Linguistic and Literary Studies and, currently, a member of its Council. Since 2016, she has been a member of the Scientific Council of the Babes Bolyai University. She is the director of The Modern Literary Philology Research Center (FiM - http://fim.centre.ubbcluj.ro/). She is also a member of the CNCS (National Council of Scientific Research). She was guest professor at several reputed European universities (Rome, Florence, Zurich), was part of international research projects carried out by UBB in cooperation with the Universities of Fribourg (Switzerland), Rome and Florence. She participated in lexicographic projects dealing with European literature with studies on the Romanian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries (most recently: the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe - https://ernie.uva.nl/viewer.p/21/56). Her main books focus on Romanian Romanticism and the poetics of Mihai Eminescu (most recent title: Eminescu explicat fratelui meu/Eminescu explained to my brother, Bucharest, 2012). Fields of scientific interest: the history of Romanian literature (19th – 20th centuries), the history of European literary ideas in the 20th century, the poetics of fixed forms. One of her on-going projects is the compilation of critical and philological editions. She translates into Romanian literature from French, Finnish, Italian and English.

James Thomas is an experienced and published researcher on Occitan literature, particularly that of the Romantic Era and later nineteenth century. He is currently reading for a PhD in Catalan Studies at Queen Mary University of London.

Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature in the department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. In addition, he holds a part-time research professorship at Maastricht University, where he works on the transnational aspects of the culture and history of the Limburg region. A comparatist by formation, he studies post-1800 cultural history as a transnational circulation of ideas and mentalities, with varied special interests including nationalism and the history of national movements, cultural and national stereotyping and ethnic characterization (“imagology”), and Irish cultural history. He is editor of the two-volume Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (Amsterdam, 2018), and co-editor of two recent collections on European identity, National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises (Leiden, 2021) and The Idea of Europe: The Clash of Projections (Leiden, 2021).

Kate is an affiliate lecturer in Celtic at the University of Glasgow. She has published on Gaelic women’s poetry and elegy, most recently in the International Companion to Scottish Literature in the long eighteenth century, and on the reception of medieval Gaelic Ulster Cycle characters in Scotland. Her current research focuses on the use of medieval Gaelic literature by Scottish and Irish anglophone writers during the Celtic Revival.

Marko Juvan, member of Academia Europaea, is Senior Researcher at the ZRC SAZU Institute of Slovenian Literature and Literary Studies, Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Ljubljana, and member of the ICLA Executive Committee. His recent publications on genre theory, intertextuality, literary geography, Slovenian Romanticism, and world literature include History and Poetics of Intertextuality (Purdue University Press, 2008), Literary Studies in Reconstruction (Peter Lang, 2011), Hibridni žanri (Hybrid Genres, Ljubljana, 2017; Serbian translation 2019), and Worlding a Peripheral Literature (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).

Mary-Ann Constantine is a Professor at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Her work is concerned with the relations between and mutual influence of the different cultures and languages of Britain (and to some extent beyond) in the late-C18th and early-C19th centuries, including the ballad tradition in Brittany, with current projects focused on travel writing, the Welsh Tour, and the writings of Thomas Pennant (1726-98).

Associate Professor Nikki Hessell teaches in the English programme at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington. She specialises in the intersection of Romantic studies and settler-Indigenous relationships and print cultures. She is a Pākehā (settler) scholar.

Rhys Kaminski-Jones holds a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. He is the co-editor of the volume Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford, 2020), and has current and forthcoming publications in The Review of English Studies, Romanticism, and The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. He is also preparing a monograph with the working title Reframing Welsh Revivalism: True Britons and Celtic Empires, 1707–1819, and an edition of the Welsh Romantic author and lexicographer William Owen Pughe.

Dr Valentina Gosetti is a poetry translator, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, and Senior Lecturer in French at the University of New England in Australia, following her Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College, University of Oxford. She authored Aloysius Bertrand’s “Gaspard de la Nuit”: Beyond the Prose Poem (Legenda, 2016), co-edited Still Loitering: Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers (Peter Lang, 2020) with Alistair Rolls, and co-edited and co-translated the bilingual anthology Donne: Poeti di Francia e oltre (Ladolfi, 2017) with Adriano Marchetti and Andrea Bedeschi. Her articles appear in Australian Journal of French Studies, Dix-Neuf, French Studies Bulletin, L’Esprit créateur, La Giroflée, PMLA, Revue Bertrand (with E. J. Kent), and Romantisme (with Antonio Viselli). With Dan Finch-Race (as #TeamFinchetti) she co-authored an article in L’Esprit créateur in 2018, a forthcoming chapter on Louise Colet and Anaïs Ségalas, received grants from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Open World Research Initiative for public events on multilingual poetry translation in Bristol and Sydney in 2019, and co-edited a double special issue of Dix-Neuf about “Ecoregions” in 2019. She is now writing a book entitled Poetry in the Provinces for Liverpool University Press. Her research is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (DE200101206 – Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation). The views expressed herein are those of the author and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.

Valentina lives on unceded Cammeraygal land and works for The University of New England, whose main site in Armidale is on unceded country of the Anaiwan people.

Dr Vini Olsen-Reeder is a Lecturer in Māori Studies at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington who specialises in socio-linguistics. He was the first person at the University to complete a PhD dissertation entirely in te reo Māori (the Māori language). He is of Nga Potiki, Tamapahore, Ngāti Pukenga, Ngai te Rangi, and Ngāti Whakaue descent.