Organisation

This conference is organised by colleagues in the Department of English and Creative Writing (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences) together with colleagues in Languages and Applied Linguistics (Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies) at The Open University. The conference is supported by OpenARC, The Open University’s Arts Research Centre in the School of Arts and Humanities and supported by the History of Books and Reading (HOBAR), Contemporary Cultures of Writing, Digital Humanities, and Language, Literature and Politics research groups in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University.

Conference Lead Organiser:

• Sara Haslam

Programme Committee members:

• Francesca Benatti
• Daria Chernysheva
• Delia da Sousa Correa
• Rachele De Felice
• Jonathan Gibson
• Ed Hogan
• Peg Katritzky
• Lania Knight
• Philip Seargeant
• Jennifer Shepherd
• Emma Sweeney
• Shafquat Towheed
• Nicola Watson
• Anne Wetherilt

Banner image: detail from Reginald Marsh “Unloading the Mail”. Photo by Carol M. Highsmith. Full scale image available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/highsm.24950. No known copyright restrictions.