ESSE Conference
31st August - 4st September 2026
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
There will be 15 parallel lectures at ESSE 2026. They are listed below in alphabetical order.
James Corby (University of Malta, Malta) After Literature: The Post-Literary Condition, Creative Criticism and the Question of the Common
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Elena Di Giovanni (University of Macerata, Italy) Audiovisual Translation and Accessibility: New Languages, New Forms of Linguistic and Cultural Transfer
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Ovidiu Ivancu (Vilnius University, Lithuania) Shifting Boundaries: Posthumanism and the Reimagining of Human Identity in Literature
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Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Memefying the English Canon: Literature Interacting with Contemporary Politics
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Lívia Kortvelyessy (Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Slovakia). On the Typology of Onomatopoeia: Sound Events and their Onomatopoeic Patterns
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María Losada Friend (University Pablo de Olavide, Spain) New Perspectives on Travel Literature: Emotionology and Women Travelling at the Outburst of the Spanish Civil War
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Minna Nevala (University of Helsinki, Finland) From the Glamorous White Plague to the Grim COVID-19: On the News Representation of People during Pandemics
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Natália Pikli (Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary) 'Why Shakespeare?' Scholars and Playwrights Serving 21st-Century Communities
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Marzanna Pogorzelska (University of Opole, Poland) 'Not as innocent as they seem': English Textbooks and their Ideological Entanglement in Neoliberal Reality
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Christine Reynier (University of Montpellier Paul-Valéry, France) Material Intimacies in British Interwar Literature
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Sofia Rüdiger (Free University of Berlin, Germany) Semiotics of Overindulgence: Language and Spectacle in Online Food Performances
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Hartmut Stöckl (Salzburg University, Austria) 'Been there, done that?': Multimodal Argument Reconstruction Based on the Evidence of Corpus Annotation
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Lieven Vandelanotte (University of Namur & KU Leuven, Belgium) 'Every day I am subjected to images and text': Towards a Grammar of Internet Memes
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Irena Vassileva (New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria) Academic Integrity in the Post-Plagiarism Era
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Titela Vîlceanu (University of Craiova, Romania) Reclaiming the Human in Digital Literary Translation. Beyond Stylistic Metrics
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