Catherine Belsey

Catherine Belsey is Professor of English at Swansea University. Her most recent book is A Future for Criticism (2011). 
Published in the Blackwell Manifesto series, this book puts forward the case for an increased attention to the pleasures of fiction and the way it engages readers.

Her other books include Critical Practice (1980, 2002), Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction (2002), Shakespeare in Theory and Practice (2008), Why Shakespeare? (2007), Culture and the Real (2005), Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden (1999), Desire: Love Stories in Western Culture (1994), John Milton: Language, Gender, Power (1988) and The Subject of Tragedy (1985).

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Diane Negra

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin
She is the author, editor or co-editor of seven books: Off-White Hollywood: American Culture and Ethnic Female Stardom (2001), A Feminist Reader in Early Cinema (2002);The Irish in Us: Irishness, Performativity and Popular Culture (2006); Interrogating Postfeminism: Gender and the Politics of Popular Culture (2007); What a Girl Wants?: Fantasizing the Reclamation of Self in Postfeminism (2008); Old and New Media After Katrina (2010); and In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (2011).

Her plenary address will focus on material drawn from her current project, Gendering the Recession (forthcoming from Duke).

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Nicholas Royle

Nicholas Royle is Professor of English at the University of Sussex.

He is the author of many books, including Veering: A Theory of Literature(2011), How to Read Shakespeare (2005),The Uncanny (2003), E. M. Forster (1999) and Telepathy and Literature (1990). He is co-author (with Andrew Bennett) of Elizabeth Bowen and the Dissolution of the Novel (1995) and the academic bestseller, Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (4th edition, 2009). He has also published a novel, Quilt (2010).

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