Shaping Modernism: Katherine Mansfield and her Contemporaries

A two-day international residential Conference in association with the Katherine Mansfield Society and Anglia Ruskin University

25-26 March 2011 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, UK

Our Keynote Speakers: Professor Laura Marcus (University of Oxford) Professor Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University) Professor David Trotter (University of Cambridge)

Other Participants include:
Dame Jacqueline Wilson
Ali Smith
Dr Rebecca Beasley
Dr Faith Binckes
Professor Elleke Boehmer
Dr Elena Gualtieri
Professor Kirsty Gunn and Susannah Harker
Professor Mary Joannou
Professor Sydney Janet Kaplan
Dr Gerri Kimber
Professor Patricia Moran
Dr Anna Snaith

This conference explores new research concerning notions of modernism(s), with a particular focus on Katherine Mansfield. Mansfield was hugely influential on, and influenced by, writers including John Middleton Murry, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, A. R. Orage, T. S. Eliot and Aldous Huxley. Woolf’s statement that Mansfield created ‘the only writing I have ever been jealous of’, highlights her significance within modernism and emphasises that her complex, experimental, satirical and humorous writing deserves further attention. Papers will address Mansfield’s relation to other writers and artists, as well as the broader lines of influence and exchange within modernist networks and between different disciplines. The conference will position leading Mansfield scholars alongside the ‘next generation’ of Mansfield research students, encouraging productive debates and new perspectives on Mansfield’s work.

Registration and more information available at: http://www.katherinemansfieldsociety.org/cambridge-2011/

We look forward to seeing you there!

With best wishes,

Alice Kelly and Dr Kate Kennedy
Conference Organisers