We are delighted to present the programme for this year’s ENSFR Conference in Montpellier:
Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
An International Conference organised by EMMA (Etudes Montpelliéraines du Monde Anglophone) with ENSFR (The European Network for Short Fiction Research)
17-18-19 October 2019
Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier3, France
Site Saint Charles 2
Auditorium & Salle Kouros
Convenors: Jean-Michel Ganteau & Christine Reynier
Thursday 17 October
9h45-10h15 Welcome
Auditorium
10h15 Opening of the Conference
10h30 Keynote lecture
Chair: Christine Reynier
Elke D’hoker (University of Leuven, Belgium)
Humbling the Human: Animals in Contemporary Short Fiction
11h30 Coffee break (Jardin d’hiver)
12h Parallel panels
Ecocritical Echoes (Auditorium)
Chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak
Xavier Le Brun (University of Angers, France)
Malcolm Lowry’s Humble Hypotyposes in Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961)
Diane Leblond (University of Lorraine, France)
Organic Connections and Creatures of Compost in Ali Smith’s “The Beholder” (2015) and Daisy
Johnson’s “Starver” (2016): When Humility Reframes the Ambition of Short Fiction
Humble Details (Salle Kouros)
Chair: Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Maxwell Donaldson (University of Aberdeen, UK)
The “Little” Things: An Exploration of the Use of Gesture in J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories
Etienne Février (University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France)
Humble Ambitions: Steven Milhauser’s Short Fiction
13h Lunch Break
14h30 Parallel panels
Invisibilities 1 (Auditorium)
Chair: Elke D’hoker
Julián Jiménez Heffernan (University of Córdoba, Spain)
The Humiliating Thing: Infrastructural Storytelling in Henry James’s “Julia Bride”
Emmanuel Vernadakis (University of Angers, France)
Tourism, Tourists and the Humble in E. M. Forster’s “The Story of the Siren” (1920)
Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
Haunted Space and the Inescapable Past in May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories (1923)
Victoria Margree (University of Brighton, UK)
Imitation and Innovation in the Ghost Stories of Eleanor Scott
Humble Women (Salle Kouros)
Chair: Bryony Randall
Diane Drouin (Sorbonne University, France)
“A ridiculous little accident”: Mina Loy’s Forgotten Short Stories
Elena Gelasi (University of Cyprus)
The Lonely Voice of Women. The Humblest among the Humble. From Freeman to Simpson
Ena Panda (University of Delhi, India)
Representation of Alienation in Short Stories Written by Contemporary Francophone Women
Writers of Québec
Ailsa Cox (Edge Hill University, UK)
An Extremely Private Literary Giant
16h15 Coffee break (Jardin d’hiver)
Auditorium
16h45
Short Story Competition
Short Story Readings 1
by Cormac James, Ashutosh Bhardwaj and Ailsa Cox
Jardin d’hiver
18h Cocktail
Friday 18 October
10h Auditorium
Humble War Stories
Chair: Isabelle Brasme
Elsa Högberg (Uppsala University, Sweden)
‘Unaccustomed to the ear, primitive harmonies of the world’: Katherine Mansfield’s Cries
Lisa Feklistova (University of Cambridge, UK)
‘Humble struggles’ —Mundane Routine in the Short Story in the Wake of the Great War
Lucy Durneen (University of Cambridge, UK)
“Walking back into your besieged life”: War Stories, Humbly Told
11h30 Coffee break (Jardin d’hiver)
12h Keynote lecture
Chair : Jean-Michel Ganteau
Ann-Marie Einhaus (Northumbria University, UK)
Scraps of Paper? First World War Short Fiction and the Ephemeral
13h Lunch (Salle Médicis)
14h30 Parallel panels
Migrants and Refugees (Auditorium)
Chair: Emma Liggins
Judith Misrahi-Barak (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
The Writing of the Refugee: Re-examining ‘bare life’ in Edwidge Danticat’s Short Stories from
‘Children of the Sea’ to ‘Without Inspection’
Carol Millner (Curtin University, Western Australia)
Trace: Short Fiction and the Western Australian Migrant Experience
Laura Gallon (University of Sussex, UK)
Short Stories & Recipes: A Reflection on Food, Gender and Genre
Ordinary Lives (Salle Kouros)
Chair : Emmanuel Vernadakis
Florence Marie (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour, France)
Dorothy Richardson’s Humble Short Fiction
Bryony Randall (University of Glasgow, UK)
‘Partly in Prose’: Woolf’s Humble Cutbush
Mallory Alexandre (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
“My roots go down to the depths of the world”: Virginia Woolf’s Humble Short Fiction
16h Coffee break (Jardin d’hiver)
Auditorium
16h30 Short Story Readings 2
by Jane Alexander, Lucy Durneen, Dan Powell,
Alison Boumid and John David Rutter
20h Dinner in town
Saturday 19 October
9h30 Parallel panels
Regional and National Identities (Auditorium)
Chair: Ann Marie Einhaus
Alda Correia (New University, Lisbon, Portugal)
Regionalist Short Fiction as Humble Fiction
Gérald Préher (UC Lille, France)
Shirley Ann Grau’s “The Empty Night”: The Humble Story Behind a Pulitzer-Prize Winner
Kritika Chettri (University of North Bengal, India)
The Nepali Short Story and its Humble Conflicts
Invisibilities 2 (Salle Kouros)
Chair: Xavier Le Brun
Leila Haghshenas (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
Humbled Selves in Leonard Woolf’s Short Fiction
Tina Terradillos (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, France)
Radclyffe Hall’s Short Fiction: A Humble Ethics of the Flawed
Sylvie Maurel (University Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France)
From Minority to Humility: Jean Rhys’s Short Fiction
11h Coffee break (Jardin d’hiver)
11h30 Parallel panels
Specific Forms (Auditorium)
Chair: Ailsa Cox
Ashutosh Bhardwaj (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India)
Conversations between the Story and the Novel: Reflections on the Self and the Other
Jane Alexander (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Writing chronic illness in short fiction
Readers (Salle Kouros)
Chair: Sandrine Sorlin
Amanda Bigler (University of Lille, France)
Empathic Second-Person Narrators in Short Fiction
Dan Powell (University of Leicester, UK)
The shape of the British Short Story in the Mid-twentieth Century: Developing a Preclosural
Methodology for Writing Short Fiction
John D. Rutter (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
The Death of the Reader
13h Lunch (Salle Médicis)
Tour of Montpellier
Musée Fabre
Organising Committee
Lynn Blin, Alice Borrego, Charlotte Chassefière, Jean-Michel Ganteau, Laura Lainvae, Xavier Le Brun, Maroua Mannai, Katia Marcellin, Judith Misrahi-Barak, Christine Reynier, Tina Terradillos
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