Keynote speakers

Prof.  Mona Baker (Oslo)

Mona Baker is Affiliate Professor at the Centre for Sustainable Health Education (SHE), University of Oslo, where she is responsible for developing the Oslo Medical Corpus, and co-coordinator of the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network. She is Director of the Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at Shanghai International Studies University, and Honorary Dean of the Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She is author of In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation and Translation and Conflict: A Narrative Account; editor of Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution (winner of the 2016 Intranews Linguist of the Year Award); and co-editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies and the Routledge Encyclopedia of Citizen Media. Her articles have appeared in a wide range of international journals, including Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Social Movement Studies, Critical Studies on Terrorism, Social Semiotics and The Translator. She posts on translation, citizen media and Palestine on her personal website and tweets at @MonaBaker11.
 

Prof. Colin Burrow (Oxford)

Colin Burrow has published on a wide range of topics in the period 1500-1700, and reviews regularly on many areas (including Renaissance literature and contemporary fiction) for The London Review of Books. He has edited the non-dramatic works of Ben Jonson and of Shakespeare, and is working on an edition of the poems of John Marston as well as a history of Elizabethan literature. His principal research interests lie in relations between English, European and Classical literatures in the period 1500-1700. Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity argues for deep and complex connections between Shakespeare and Latin poetry and drama. His study of Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity ranges widely across western literary and critical traditions, from ancient Greece to the present day.

Prof. Patricia Pulham (Surrey)

Patricia Pulham is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Surrey, editor of the EUP journal, Victoriographies and President Elect of the British Association for Victorian Studies. She is author of The Sculptural Body in Victorian Literature: Encrypted Sexualities (2020) and Art and the Transitional Object in Vernon Lee's Supernatural Tales (2008). Her research focuses on late-Victorian literature and culture, and she has published widely on nineteenth-century writers such as Thomas Hardy and Oscar Wilde. She is also known for her work on Neo-Victorianism which includes several articles, a co-edited collection, Haunting and Spectrality in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Possessing the Past (2010), and more recently a journal special issue 'Tracing the Victorians: Material Uses of the Past in Neo-Victorianism' (2019).