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*With apologies for cross-posting* Please find details below of the first research event for Lancaster University's new interdisciplinary research hub, Authors and the World. You can find out more about other planned events and related activities online: www.authorsandtheworld.com<http://www.authorsandtheworld.com> If you would like to attend this event, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by 1 September. Attendance at the event is free, but places are limited, so it will be first come, first served. A small number of bursaries are also available to cover the cost of UK travel for postgraduate / unwaged early career researchers. ---------------- Embodying Literary Celebrity in Multiple Media, 18 & 19 September 2014 How have authors – as opposed to their works – been canonized or otherwise written into the cultural fabric of society from the late eighteenth century to today? Our research papers look at cultural phenomena as diverse as stately architecture, literary frontispieces, and silent film in an attempt to understand how authors’ physical bodies are popularly related to their literary corpus, and how both are made tangible for posterity. Our collaborative workshop brings together published authors, literary mediators and academics embedded in the creative sector to explore the challenge of being a contemporary author in different social and media environments. We also have a special session planned to help early career academics develop and critique creative interdisciplinary research ideas within literary studies. 18 September 2014 Research papers: Multimedia Embodiments of Literary Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century 13:00 Registration – buffet lunch available 13:45 Welcome and introduction to the project 14:00 Tom Mole (Edinburgh): Scott in Stone, Byron in Bronze 14:45 Kamilla Elliott (Lancaster): Intersemiotic and intermedial representations of British literary authors in the long nineteenth century 15:30 Refreshments 16:00 Jessica Goodman (Cambridge): ‘La gloire, l’ornement et les bienfaiteurs de la France’: celebrating the man of letters in late eighteenth-century dialogues of the dead 16:45 Andrew Piper (Montreal): The Werther Effect: Topologies of Literary Fame 17:45 Open discussion 19:00 Dinner 19 September 2014 9:30-12:30 The Creative Researcher: New Interdisciplinary Approaches within Literary Studies With Charles Forsdick, Tom Mole, and Andrew Piper In the first part of this session we will explore what ‘interdisciplinarity’, ‘literary studies’ and ‘digital humanities’ mean within the contemporary research landscape. In the second part of the session, we will examine case studies of successful and unsuccessful bids that broadly fall under the remit of literary studies, as well as considering how to deal with unexpected or unwanted outcomes that can accompany out-of-the-box thinking. Participants should also expect to discuss their own research plans, and are warmly invited to bring a 150 word abstract for a creative research project for which they would like to receive feedback within a supportive environment. 1:00-2:30 Buffet lunch and networking 2:30-5:30 Managing the Media: ‘Making it’ as an Author in the UK Including Jenn Ashworth (author and Lecturer in Creative Writing), Andy Darby (founder of Lancaster Litfest), Jim Hinks (editor, Comma Press), and Karen Leeder (translator, poet, and Professor in German Literature) This afternoon session begins with a round table featuring published literary authors, mediators within the creative sector, and academic-translators. Speakers will share their insights into the role of the author’s biographical person within the literary industry, as well as debate the nature of the industry processes that lie behind the discovery and promotion of new literary talent. In the second part of the afternoon, audience participants will work together to reflect on what ‘making it’ and ‘being an author’ mean in different media and institutional contexts.