Parallel Lectures

1. Rosario Arias, University of Málaga, Spain
Embodied Recognition and the Act of Reading: The Role of Literature in an Entangled World

2. Nicholas Brownlees, University of Florence, Italy
Celebrating the 400th Anniversary of British Serialised News: News Analysis for Old Stories
with Present-Day Resonance

3. Mathias Clasen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Playing with Fear: Investigations into the Peculiar Phenomenon of Recreational Horror

4. Lidia De Michelis, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Cultural Studies as a “Gift of Doors”: Conversations and Storytelling in an Age of Post-Truth

5. Olga Dontcheva-Navratilova, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic
Writer-reader interaction in academic discourse across genres, cultures and modalities

6. Kinga Földváry, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary
Serial Storytelling in a Networked Era

7. María del Pilar García Mayo, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain
Children Learning English in a Foreign Language Setting: The Importance of Collaborative
Interactive Tasks

8. Luz Mar González-Arias, University of Oviedo, Spain
Illness in the Age of Extinction: Is there a Way out of the War Metaphor?

9. Daniela Guardamagna, Università degli studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
Cross-bred Texts: Middleton within Shakespeare

10. Vitana Kostadinova, Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Monstrosity Translated: Frankenstein in Bulgaria

11. Hermine Penz, University of Graz, Austria
“It’s not too late to stem the tide”: Representations of Time in Climate Crisis Discourse

12. Himmet Umunç, Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey
“Turning Others’ Leaves”? The Politics of National Literary Identity in Renaissance England

13. Titela Vilceanu, University of Craiova, Romania
Enhancing the Role of Corpora in Bridging the Gap between Translation Theory and Practice