Friday 28 June
Plenary Panel
Chair: Dr Bysshe Inigo Coffey
Bysshe Inigo Coffey is a British Academy Postdoctoral and Early Career Fellow at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He is also lecturer and tutor in English at St. Anne’s College. His first book, Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song (Liverpool 2021), was shortlisted for the University English First Book Prize and is now available in paperback. In 2021 he was awarded a Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr. Research Grant. He has been a visiting fellow at the Huntington Library and the Armstrong Browning Library. He is at work on a digital gallery of illustrated editions and visual representations of Percy Bysshe Shelley from 1851-1922 hosted by Oxford. He is editing Shelley’s verse translations from the Greek.
Dr Will Bowers
Will Bowers is Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Thought at Queen Mary University of London. He has published essays on poets including Byron, Milton, Shelley, and Wordsworth, and his first book, The Italian Idea, came out with Cambridge University Press in 2020. He is an editor on the final two volumes of the Longman Shelley, and has two ongoing editorial projects: an edition of Cowper’s Poem, Hymns, and Letters for World’s Classics, and a co-edited letters of Shelley for Oxford University Press. He is also co-authoring a critical study of Shelley’s Hellenism with Tom Phillips.
Dr Madeleine Callaghan
Madeleine Callaghan is Senior Lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Sheffield. Liverpool University Press published her first monograph, Shelley’s Living Artistry: Letters, Poems, Plays, in 2017, and her monograph, The Poet-Hero in the Work of Byron and Shelley (2019) is published by Anthem Press. She has published various articles and chapters on Romantic and post-Romantic poetry, and, with Michael O’Neill, co-authored The Romantic Poetry Handbook (2018). Her new book, Eternity in British Romantic Poetry (Liverpool University Press), came out in June 2022.
Professor Nora Crook
Nora Crook, Emerita Professor of English at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge is Jamaican by birth and education and a graduate of the University of Cambridge, where she read English at Newnham College. She is the general editor of Mary Shelley’s novels and miscellaneous works (1996, 2002) and became a co-general editor with Neil Fraistat and the late Donald Reiman, of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (CPPBS) in 2012. She has published monographs on Shelley and Kipling and contributed book chapters and articles including festschrifts for Donald Reiman and Lilla Crisafulli, on the Shelleys and other Romantic-period topics. She is the editor of Volume VII of CPPBS (2021), and co-volume editor of Volume IV (in production, publication expected in 2025).
Professor Paul Hamilton
Paul Hamilton is Emeritus Professor of English at Queen Mary University of London. Previously he was a Fellow of Exeter College Oxford and then Professor at the University of Southampton. He has been Visiting Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and Visiting Professor at La Sapienza University of Rome. His book Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (Chicago, 2003) won the Jean-Pierre Barricelli book prize. His most recent works are, as editor, The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism (2016) and, as author, Realpoetik: European Romanticism and Literary Politics (Oxford, 2013) and Orientation in European Romanticism: The Art of Falling Upwards (Cambridge, 2023).
Saturday 29 June
Keynote Lecture
Dr Ross Wilson
Ross Wilson is Associate Professor of Criticism in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. He works on the history, theory, and practice of literary criticism since 1750 and on poetry and poetics in the same period. He is the author of Subjective Universality in Kant’s Aesthetics (2007), Theodor Adorno (2007; Chinese translation, 2016; Turkish translation, 2023), Shelley and the Apprehension of Life (2013), and Critical Forms: Forms of Literary Criticism, 1750–2020 (2023). His work on poetry, literary criticism, and critical theory has been published in ELH, European Romantic Review, New Literary History, Romanticism, Textual Practice, and many other venues. He is the editor of The Meaning of ‘Life’ in Romantic Poetry and Poetics (2009) and Percy Shelley in Context (forthcoming 2024) and is a member of the editorial collective for Romantic Circles Reviews and Receptions.
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