Symposium keynote speakers announced!

We are very excited to announce the keynote speakers for the Concepts in Popular Genre Fiction symposium, to be held 6-8 December 2021 on Zoom via the Deakin Literature and its Readers research network!

The first of our keynote speakers will be Farah Mendlesohn (@effjayem). Farah is the author of several acclaimed books on popular genre fiction, including Rhetorics of Fantasy and Children’s Fantasy Literature: An Introduction.

Our second keynote speaker will be Jayashree Kamble (@prof_romance). Jayashree is currently the vice-president of @IASPR and the author of Making Meaning in Popular Romance Fiction: An Epistemology.

And finally, we will host a keynote panel by the research team from the Genre Worlds project, Lisa Fletcher (@lmfletcher72), Beth Driscoll (@Beth_driscoll) and Kim Wilkins. This fascinating project explores genre in 21st century Australian popular fiction.

These three keynote events will be held synchronously via Zoom between December 6-8 2021 (more details on specifically when each event will take place to follow).

Conference convenors @heyouonline and @JodiMcA are still seeking abstract submissions for this very exciting digital symposium – access the CFP here.