Presentations and Conference Proceedings:

Presentations should be between 15 and 20 minutes so as to leave time for discussion. Upon registration, please let us know if you will need audio-visual equipment.

We are hoping to publish the proceedings of the conference in the form of an edited collection of essays. If you would like to be considered for inclusion in the collection, please send us a draft of your essay (no more than 3000 words) by March 1, 2007. Essays should be sent electronically to: laurence.petit[at]ccsu.edu

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Karen Jacobs, University of Colorado at Boulder:

Karen Jacobs received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and, in 1993, joined the faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Her book The Eye's Mind: Literary Modernism and Visual Culture (Cornell University Press, 2001) was selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2001. The special issue of English Language Notes, "Photography and Literature," she has edited appears in fall/winter 2006. Her new book project, titled Photo/Fictions, examines the intersections among photography and literature in a selection of post-1950 novels and memoirs, in a work whose graphic design is intended to mimic the range of epistemologies under discussion. She is also editing The Poetics of the Iconotext, a translation (by CCSU's Professor Laurence Petit) of Liliane Louvel's L'Oeil du texte and Texte/Image: images à lire, textes à voir. And she will be writing Modernism and the Visual Field for the Topics in Modernism series of the Edinburgh University Press. Her essays have appeared in such venues as The Journal of Visual Culture, Narrative, and Novel. Professor Jacobs is also a practicing artist, working at the intersections of books arts, photography and sculpture.

Professor Liliane Louvel, University of Poitiers, France:

Liliane Louvel is a Professor of British Literature at the University of Poitiers, France. She specializes in the interaction between word and image in contemporary British literature. She has published three books on word/image relations: L'œil du texte (“The Eye of/in the Text”) (Toulouse PUM 1998), The Picture of Dorian Gray, Le double miroir de l'art (“The Double Mirror of Art”) (Ellipses, 2000), and Texte/image, images à lire et textes à voir (“Text/Image: Reading Pictures and Viewing Texts”) (Rennes PUR 2002). She has also edited three collections of essays on text and image published in EJES, La licorne, and PU Rennes II, written numerous articles on the subject, and organized several conferences in France and England. Her work is currently being translated by CCSU’s Professor Laurence Petit and will be edited by UC-Boulder’s Professor Karen Jacobs. Liliane Louvel is also the chair of the French Association of English Scholars (SAES) and a member of the board of ESSE, the European Society for the Study of English.

Conference Abstracts (255KB MS Word file in alphabetical order by author)