Dorothy Chansky
Professor, School of Theatre and Dance at Texas Tech University

Theatrical depictions of dementia (a blanket term for cognitive decline) are as old as Oedipus at Colonus and as familiar as King Lear or Death of a Salesman…

Cynthia J. Davis
Professor, University of South Carolina

This talk draws on Edith Wharton’s writings to flesh out more widely resonant value-laden distinctions between externally expressive and quietly internalized responses to pain and pleasure…

Smaro Kamboureli
Professor, University of Toronto

Refugee narratives reflect the fact that refugee status depends on the stories displaced people tell about their circumstances…

Alejandro Morales
Professor, Department of Chicano Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine

In most of my novels, short stories and poetry, readers and literary scholars encounter the elements of history, theory, plus a touch of the fantastic as constants in my work…

Magdalena Paluszkiewicz-Misiaczek
Assoc. professor, Jagiellonian University, Cracow

“When you are living a war – its extremes of noise and smells and chaos, the faces of the human beings in every state of life and death and fear and pain – you cannot get away from it”…

Art Redding
Professor, York University in Toronto

Between the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, during what historian Gary Gerstle terms the “unipolar moment” of 90s the United States found itself in the unique position of world imperial supremacy…

Theodora Tsimpouki
Professor, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

For the most part, critical discourse has embraced the transcultural turn, which places emphasis on the significance of transcultural experience, its dynamism, fluidity, and awareness of the other…