Postgraduate Contemporary Women's Writing Network
EVENTS
'WRITING BODIES/ READING BODIES'
NEWS
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FEATURED AUTHORS
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'Writing Bodies/ Reading Bodies' will feature two women authors.
PROFESSOR SUSAN SELLERS
Susan Sellers is Professor of English and Related Literature at the University of St Andrews. Her areas of specialisation include contemporary critical theory, modernist and contemporary women's fiction, feminism, and creative writing.
Susan Sellers' novel, "Vanessa and Virginia", a fictional account of the sibling rivalry that existed between Virginia Woolf and the painter Vanessa Bell, was published in 2008 by Two Ravens and is forthcoming in the United States from Harcourt, New York. At our conference, Susan will focus particularly on the way her novel uses Vanessa Bell's paintings to reimagine the relationship between the sisters, including her featureless portraits of Virginia and her nudes. For more information about Susan and her work, please visit
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/staff/sellers/
CHRISTINE WILKS
Christine has an MA from De Montford University in Creative Writing and New Media. She creates multimedia works for the web and occasionally live performance and installation. Christine also writes fiction, has written screenplays and made a number of short films and videos.
To get a preview of some of the work Christine will be presenting and displaying at our 2009 conference, visit
http://www.crissxross.net/MovingPix/IntraVenus.html and http://www.crissxross.net/worxprog.html.
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2ND KEYNOTE SPEAKER CONFIRMED
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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Mark Llewellyn from the University of Liverpool will be our second keynote speaker at 'Writing Bodies/ Reading Bodies'. Mark has published widely on both Victorian literature and contemporary women's writing. He is co-editor of and contributor to the book "Metahistory and Metafiction in Contemporary Women's Writing" and is on the editorial board of the "Journal of Gender Studies". At our event Mark will be speaking on "Contemporary Women Writers and the Incestuous Text".
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1ST KEYNOTE SPEAKER
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We now have our first confirmed keynote speaker, Professor Lucie Armitt from the University of Salford. Lucie has published widely on the Gothic, women's writing and the fantastic and women's science fiction, as well as contemporary women's writing in general and she is a member of the CWWN steering group. She is currently working on three monographs (amongst which are one on the Gothic and one on twenty-first century women writers). To see more details about Lucie's research, please visit:http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/english/staff.luciearmitt.php
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OFFICIAL CONFERENCE POSTER
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The official "Writing Bodies / Reading Bodies" conference poster is now in online and print circulation and if you're lucky you might secure one of our "Writing Bodies/ Reading Bodies" bookmarks too! The poster can be downloaded from www.pgcwwn.org/bodies_2009/bodies_cfp.pdf