CFP: Wilkie Collins Research Day (5/31/2013;11/9/2013)

Victorian Popular Fiction Association

Research Day – 9th November 2013

Wilkie Collins: New Directions and Readings

The VPFA is pleased to announce a Study Day devoted to the work of Wilkie Collins. Confirmed speakers include Tara MacDonald (University of Amsterdam), Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough University), Tabitha Sparks (McGill University) and Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa University). In addition to these speakers, we would like to solicit three further papers of 20 minutes duration on any aspect of Collins’s novels, short stories, and plays. Please send a 250 word abstract to Janice Allan (j.m.allan@salford.ac.uk) and Joanne Parsons (Joanne.parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk) by the 31st May 2013.

All VPFA events are hosted at the English Institute, Senate House in London.

VPFA: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/