Autumn 2011: NRG News

NRG‘s second symposium on Nonhuman Narratives was held in April this year, and attracted an international panel of speakers.   A full report on the symposium can be accessed at  http://www.narratology.net/node/93
This Autumn the group will be working on ideas for funding and setting up a postgraduate degree at Bournemouth University, and in the Spring we will recommence our series of research seminars and talks (more details to follow).
News of individual activities and achievements  Julia Round co-organised the Joint Annual International Conference of Comics Graphic Novels and Bande-dessinee, which was held at Manchester Metropolitan Unversity in July 2011, and presented a paper at the same. The conference was very successful, attracting over 100 delegates, and it has been agreed to hold it at BU in 2012. She has also published a chapter on Sherlock Holmes and House in an edited collection entitled Sherlock Holmes and Philosophy (part of the Popular Culture and Philosophy series, Open Court Press, 2011). Her paper proposal ‘Zombies, absence and existentialism’ has been accepted for Winchester University’s ‘Zombiosium’ (zombie symposium), to be held this October, and she has been invited to act as respondent at the second annual ‘Transitions’ symposium, to be held at Bickbeck in November. She has also agreed to give a guest lecture at St Martin’s College of Arts, London, in November. Together with Bronwen Thomas, Julia has been been preparing for publication the proceedings of the first NRG symposium (Real Lives Real Stories).
Hywel Dix has submitted a paper called ‘Meta-fiction for a new Millennium: de-coding satire in Sebastian Faulks, Amanda Craig and Jim Crace’ to the journal 21st Century Literature. He has also written and submitted a paper called ‘The Death of the Transitive Verb: new additions to a vocabulary of society and culture’ to the journal Key Words. He recently presented a paper entitled ‘North and South, or, the Union and the Confederation: British reaction to 2 American revolutions’ at a conference entitled ‘Strange new today: Victorians, Crisis and Response’ at the University of Exeter. The paper is under review with the Journal of Victorian Studies. Hywel has also had an abstract accepted to give a paper at the conference ‘Shakespeare and Tyranny’ in Murcia, Spain in January 2012.
Craig Batty’s new book, Movies that Move Us: Screenwriting and the Power of the Protagonist’s Journey has just been published by Palgrave.
Bronwen Thomas has recently completed work on Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel to be published next Spring by the University of Nebraska Press. The book she co-edited with Ruth Page of the University of Leicester on New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in a Digital Age (also published by the University of Nebraska Press) will be published in December 2011.  Bronwen has also completed a chapter on Twitterfiction for a volume of essays on Analysing Digitial Fiction to be published by Routledge, and an article on ‘The rhetoric of social campaigning in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy’ to be published in a special issue of the journal Language and Literature on contemporary crime fiction.

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