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IGEL 2004: Keynote speakers

Brian Boyd, University of Auckland

http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/eng/personal/homepage_brianboyd.htm

Brian Boyd is University Distinguished Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, specializing in Russian literature. He is a leading Nabokov scholar. Among his numerous published books are Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years (Princeton, 1990), Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years (Princeton, 1991), Nabokov's Pale Fire: The Magic of Artistic Discovery (Princeton 2001). He has recently turned his attention to the implications of evolutionary theory for literature and will contribute a keynote to the conference on this topic. Recent papers include:

"Jane, Meet Charles: Literature, Evolution and Human Nature." Philosophy and Literature 22 (1998): 1-30.

"Literature and Discovery." Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 274-94.

Margaret Mackey, University of Alberta

http://www.ualberta.ca/~mmackey/

Margaret Mackey is currently Associate Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies, at the University of Alberta. Her research and teaching involve processes of reading, including literature, popular culture, digital media, children's and young adult literature, and the commercial market for young people. Her books include: Literacies across Media: Playing the Text (Routledge, 2002), and The Case of Peter Rabbit: Changing Conditions of Literature for Children (Garland Publishing, 1998). Among her many recent articles and book chapters are:

"Television and the Teenage Literate: Discourses of Felicity." College English 65 (2003): 389-410.

"Popular Culture and Sophisticated Reading: Men in Black." English in Education 33 (1999): 47-57.

Alan Richardson, Boston College

http://www2.bc.edu/~richarad/hpage.html

Alan Richardson is professor of English at Boston College, and a distinguished scholar of British Romantic culture and literature. His books include Literature, Education, and Romanticism (Cambridge, 1994), and British Romanticism and the Science of the Mind (Cambridge, 2001). In 1998 he established a discussion group of the MLA on "Cognitive Approaches to Literature," which explores the relation between modern cognitive theory and poetics. His keynote for the IGEL conference is provisionally entitled "Real Readers, Cognitive Theories, and Literary Texts."

Recent papers include:

"Of Heartache and Head Injury: Reading Minds in Persuasion." Poetics Today 23 (2002): 141–60.

"Literature and the Cognitive Revolution: An Introduction." Poetics Today 23 (2002): 1–8.

Jonathan Rose, Drew University

Jonathan Rose is the founder and past president of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP) and coeditor of the journal Book History. He is a professor of History at Drew University, New Jersey, where he directs the graduate program in book history. His most recent publication is The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes (Yale, 2001). Using a wide range of sources, including memoirs, oral history, and library registers, the book offers a new method for cultural historians, an 'audience history' that recovers the responses of readers across the last two centuries.

For a recent talk see http://www.printinghistory.org/htm/misc/awards/2001-SHARP.htm

"Rereading the English Common Reader: A Preface to a History of Audiences." Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (1992): 47-70.