Writers and their Libraries

Panel 1: Reading - Writing - Reading: Genetic Criticism and Marginalia I
Thomas Brobjer (Uppsala Universitet): 'Nietzsche's Reading Relevant for Der Antichrist'

Patricio Ferrari (Universidade de Lisboa / Stockholms Universitet): 'Fernando Pessoa's Chatterton'

Warwick Gould (Institute of English Studies, University of London): 'The Library of W.B. Yeats'

Panel 2A: Virtual Libraries / Reconstructed Libraries I

Catherine Volpilhac-Auger (Université de Lyon): 'La bibliothèque virtuelle Montesquieu'

Beth Lau (California State University): 'Keats's Library'

Helen Chambers (The Open University): 'Reconstructing Joseph Conrad’s Library from Multiple Sources of Evidence:  The Gap between Evidence of Reading and Ownership of Books'

Panel 2B: Reading Habits / Collecting Habits

Robert Heyes (John Clare Society): 'John Clare’s Library'

Ben De Bruyn (University of Leuven): 'American Readers at Home: Tradition, Lifestyle and Libraries'

Anne Welsh (University College London): 'The Poet's Poet: Collections and Anthologies in Walter de la Mare's Working Library'

Panel 3A: Reading - Writing - Reading: Genetic Criticism and Marginalia II

Hélène de Jacquelot (Università di Pisa): 'Stendhal en apprentissage: Pratiques de lecture et d’écriture'

Pauly Ellen Bothe (Universidade de Lisboa): 'Books and Poems: the making of José Gorostiza’s "Muerte sin fin"'

Gabriele Wix (Universität Bonn): 'From a Punk and Postmodern Point of View: Grandfather's Bookcase. The Function of the Library for Authorship in the Work of German Poet Thomas Kling (1957–2005)'

Panel 3B: Between Languages, Between Disciplines

Andy Wimbush (Darwin College, University of Cambridge): 'The Consolations of Philosophy and the Vindications of Literature: Samuel Beckett’s Quietist Library'

Annet den Haan (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen):  'Giannozzo Manetti’s New Testament'

Panel 4: Virtual Libraries / Reconstructed Libraries II
Leah Knight (Brock University): 'Reading Anne Clifford Reading'

Christopher M. Ohge (University of Maine): 'Paul Bowles's Sources, Analogues, and Private Library: A Case Study in Building a Virtual Library'

Shafquat Towheed (The Open University): 'Edith Wharton's Libraries'

Plenary Lecture

John Coffin Memorial Lecture in the History of the Book by Dirk Van Hulle (Universiteit Antwerpen): 'Writers’ Libraries and the Extended Mind'

Followed by a wine reception.

Plenary Lecture

Heather Jackson (University of Toronto): 'The Special Relationship: Writers and their Marginalia'

Panel 5A: Alter Egos, Blurred Margins

Catherine McKenna (King's College London): 'Blurring the Lines between Fiction and Document: An Examination of the 'Invisible Literatures' of the Library of J.G. Ballard'

Telê Ancona Lopes (Universidade de Sao Paulo): 'Mario de Andrade’s Macunaíma begun in Koch-Grünberg’s book'

João Dionísio (Universidade de Lisboa): 'Von Gribskov according to Rilke'

Panel 5B: Group Marginalia / Marginalia and Literary Criticism

Lucy Ella (Surrey University): 'The Watts' Secret Library: The Readings and Writings of George and Mary Watts'

Mary Erica Zimmer (Boston University): 'Terms of Engagement: Geoffrey Hill's Annotations of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood)

Eva Nieto McAvoy (Birkbeck College, University of London): 'Scrapbooks of Exile: The Spanish-British Library of Arturo Barea (1939-1957)

Sandwich lunch provided

Panel 6A: Comparing Libraries / Libraries within Libraries

Karen Attar (Senate House Library, University of London): 'A Writer and His Library: Augustus de Morgan'

Stephen H. Gregg (Bath Spa University): 'Virtual Conversation in the Library of Bishop Ricard Hurd'

Richard W. Oram (Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin): 'Writers’ Libraries: A Curatorial Perspective'

Panel 6B: Theories of Reading, Theories of Readers

John C. Orr (University of Portland): 'Marginalia in the Library of Henry Adams: Sites of Contestation'

Wim Van Mierlo (Institute of English Studies, University of London): 'Revision in the Margins: T. Sturge Moore and the Social Theory of Reading'

Cristina Piña (Universidad de Mar del Plata): 'Discovering Alejandra Pizarnik’s Private Library: Borges, Gide, Salinas and the Theory of Rewriting and Plagiarizing Tradition'

Panel 7A: Reading with a Purpose / The Purpose of Reading

Hugh Adlington (University of Birmingham): 'John Donne's Books: Reading, Writing and the Uses of Knowledge'

Tom Ue (University College London): 'Becoming Gissing: Shakespeare and the Staging of Love's Labour's Lost'

Frances White (Kingston University): 'Meanings of Marginalia: Iris Murdoch's Oxford Library'

Panel 7B: Professional Libraries / Libraries of Professionals

Stanton J. Linden (Washington State University): 'Henry Power (c. 1626-1668) and MS. Sloane 1346: The Life and Library of a Northcountry Doctor'

José Antonio Amaya (Universidad Nacional de Colombia): 'Ensayo comparativo del Fondo Mutis con otros Fondos y Colecciones de su Tiempo'

Edmund G.C. King (The Open University): 'E.W. Hornung: A Writer and His YMCA Soldiers' Library during World War I'

Panel 8: Tracing Traces in the Private Library

Carmen Peraita (Villanova University): 'Quevedo's Books and His Marginal Annotations'

Vanda Anastácio (University of Lisbon): 'In search of a Woman’s Library: The Books of the Marquise of Alorna in the Library of the Fronteira Palace”

Adam Smyth (Birkbeck College, University of London): 'Consuming Texts: Ben Jonson's Library Fire of 1623'