Captivating Criminality 5
Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders
Bath Spa University
28th – 30thJune 2018
 
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THURSDAY
 
9.00
Registration (Town Hall)
 

9.30-10.30
Welcome (Town Hall)
Welcome from Dr. Fiona Peters, Director of the International Crime Fiction Association
Welcome from Professor Neil Sammells, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Bath Spa University
 

10.30 -12.00 Session 1
Panel 1 – Town Hall
Thieves and Murderers
Chair: Joanne Ella Parsons
  • Keaghan Turner (Coastal Carolina University): Things To Die For: Pathologies of Collection in E.W. Hornung's Tales of A. J. Raffles, Gentleman Thief
  • Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University): 'Outsider' Masculinities in the Newgate Genre: The case of William Harrision Ainsworth's Jack Sheppard
  • Kirsten T. Saxton (Mills College): 'Spectacular Materials: Ghost Hunting, Prison Tourism, Remixes, The afterlives of 18th Century Murderess Mary Blandy
 
Panel 2 – F32
Noir
Chair:     Annette Wren 
  • Roshani Palamakumbura (Independent Scholar): Modernity and the changing face of evil
  • Abby Bentham (University of Salford): There ain't nothin' like a dame: Gender in Megan Abbott's neo-noir
  • William MacNeil (Southern Cross University, Australia): Waldo's Beautiful Things: Possessing and Possession in Laura
 
Panel 3-F24 
Spaces and Places
Chair: Laura Major
  • Susan Ireland (Grinnell College, USA): Representations of the multiethnic city in the contemporary Marseillais detective novel
  • Collette Guldimann (University of Pretoria, South Africa): Moroccan Crime Fiction and borders in "the age of globalization": Abdelilah Hamdouchi's Whitefly
  • Robert Rowe (The University of Newcastle, Australia): 'Inside or Outside? Transcultural Transformations and Liminality in Peter Corri's The Black Prince (1998)
 
 

12-1
Lunch (F27)
 

1-2.30 - Session 2
Panel 1- Town Hall
Crimes Against Society
Chair: Cal Smyth
  • Laura Major (Achva Academic College, Israel): Number 1 Ladies Detective Agency: Solving Crimes to Repair Society
  • Marcella Miller (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil): Pleasure in punishment: police violence in Brazilian Crime Fiction
  • Carla Portilho (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil): Smooth operators: the uses and tactics of the trickster figure in Barbara Neely's Blanche White Mysteries
 
Panel 2 – F32
Medicine: Pre and Post-Mortem
Chair: Joanne Ella Parsons
  • Alison Moulds (University of Oxford and University of Roehampton): The medical woman as amateur detective in Anna Kingsford's "A Cast for a Fortune" (1877)
  • Emma Gardner (Bath Spa University): Courting corpses: the sexualisation of the female body post-mortem
 
Panel 1 – Town Hall
The Detective Genre
Chair: Eric Sandberg
  • Andrzej Ksiezopolski (University of Warsaw, Poland): "It was all the fault of Mr. Sherlock Holmes": Reality through Detective Fiction Paradigm in Arthur & George
  • Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish (University of Gdansk):  Is the detective/crime short story alive today?
  • Irena Ksiezopolska (Vistual University): Turning the Story Inside-out: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Detective Fiction
 
 
 

2.30-4 - Session 3
Panel 1- Town Hall
Crime and Masculinity
Chair: Rebecca Lloyd
  • Eric Sandberg (City University of Hong Kong): James Ellroy's Investigators: The Right Men for the Wrong World
  • Jana Nittel (University of Bremen, Germany): "The Handsome Super" - Love as culturally constructed emotion and the queering of male corporeality in Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn series
  • Aline Ursula Sohny (University of Koblenz-Landau): Still going strong? Disabled masculinity in detective fiction
 
Panel 2 – F32
Maternity and Mythology
Chair: Em Gardner
 
  • Carol Westron (Independent Scholar): An exploration of the role of wives of the detective hero in the Golden Age of crime
  • Gaynor Baker (Bath Spa University): Motherhood themes in Dicte, Crime Reporter
  • Eva Burke (Trinity College Dublin): '"I'd give anything for a night's sleep": motherhood and alienation in Celia Fremlin's The Hours Before Dawn and Sophie Hannah's The Point of Rescue
 
Panel 3 – F24
Contemporary Crime
Chair: HollyGale Millette
  • Laura Vorachek (University of Dayton): 'Troubling Racism in contemporary British Detective Fiction: Mike Phillip's Blood Rights and Courttia Newland's Snakeskin
  • Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (University of Bamberg): Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Supernatural: Insiders Outside or Outsiders Inside?
  • Gill Jamieson (University of the West of Scotland): "Start asking the right fucking questions": True Detective and the reinvention of genre
 
Flash Fiction Workshop – SB.F.01 (The Riding School Seminar Room)
Participants: Melanie Golding, Steven Butler, Abby Bentham, Dorothy Marshall-Gent
 
 

4–5
Cream Tea F27
Lunch (F27)

6.20-8.30
Pound Arts
Wine Reception 
Val McDermid Honorary Doctorate and Lecture
How to Kill a Woman: an inquiry into the portrayal of violence in 
Crime Fiction
 
 

 
FRIDAY
 
 
9-10.30 – Session 4
Panel 1 – Town Hall
Outsider Women
Chair: Kerstin Bergman
  • Maša Grdšić (University of Zagreb, Croatia): Not one of the Lads: Antoinette Conway as Outsider in Tana French's The Trespasser
  • Rita Malenczyk (Eastern Connecticut State University): Passing: gender and disability in Karin Slaughter's Will Trent novels
  • Carolina Miranda (Victorian University of Wellington, New Zealand): An Unsuitable Job for a Woman?: María Inés Krimer's Kosher PI Series
 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
(Neo-) Victorian Policing and Surveillance
Chair:  Lucy Andrew
  • Oriah Amit (UCLA): "They can go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone": Street Urchin Sidekicks in the The Moonstone, The Sign of Four and The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Samuel Saunders (Liverpool John Moores University): 'The Crime Gardens of London': Social Exploration Journalism, Police Officers and Crime Fiction, c.1820-1870
  • Rebecca Lloyd (Falmouth University): A policeman's lot is not a happy one: the laughing reader and Peter Lovesey's neo-Victorian crime fiction
 
Panel 3 – F32
Threats and Violence
Chair: Felicity Hand
  • María Julia Bordonado Bermejo (Esic/Rey Juan Carlos University): The differential factor in Spanish crime novels: Lorenzo Silva's novels
  • Jean A. Gregorek (Canisius College Buffalo, New York, USA): Black money, grey skies: financial crimes in modern Icelandic crime drama
  • Jennifer Grünewald (Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg): Putin's Russia as a contemporary threat in Scandinavian crime novels
 
 

10.30- 11
Coffee – Main House F27

11-12.30 Session 5
Panel 1 – Town Hall
Perversity and Monstrosity
Chair: Rita Malenczyk
  • Junha Jung (Sogang University): The Nation of Perverts in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
  • Frankie Dobson (Bath Spa University): The Pleasures of Pain: Examining the Ways in Which Val McDermid and Karin Slaughter Address and Present Brutal Sex Crimes to Challenge Social Conventions Regarding the Boundaries of Sadomasochism
  • Lucy Andrew (University of Chester): Dexter's Monstrous Children: The child-serial-killer in training in Jeff Lindsay's Dexter
 
Panel 2- Lecture Room
Folklore, Myths, and Witchcraft
Chair: Ruth Heholt
  • Elspeth Latimer (University of East Anglia): Mythic versus Mundane: Rethinking character Poetics in the Contemporary Crime Fiction Series
  • Stephen Butler (University of Ulster): The tiger inside or outside us? Ewa Kurniawan's mystic-spiritual crime novel
  • Anna Kirsch (Durham University): Writing Witchcraft and Otherness as an Outsider: The Skinwalker in Tony Hillerman's Skinwalkers
 
Panel 3 – F32
Golden Age: Ghosts, Gothic, and Future Terror
Chair: Rebecca Lloyd
  • Sophie Smith (Independent Scholar): Terror and technology: anarchists, capitalists and the atomic bomb
  • Stefano Serafini (Royal Holloway, University of London): The Gothic in the Golden Age: persecution and incarceration in John Dickson Carr's Castle Skull (1931) and Christiana Brand's Cat and Mouse (1950)
  • Alicia Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan University): Death of the detective: the ghost of detection as Gothic archetype
 
Panel 3 – F24
Society and Identity
Chair: Carolina Miranda
  • Michelle Pretorius (Ohio University, USA): Postcolonial Crime Fiction: dealing with trauma and identity in the postcolonial state
  • Carlos Uxo (Monash University, Australia): Cuban Crime Fiction: If it is Saturday, it is on television
  • Natalia Ciofu (University of Essex): The game of gazes: idiographic assessment of the criminal mind in Liviu Rebreanu's Ciuleandra

12.30-1.30
Town Hall 
Chair: Fiona Peters
Keynote: Linda Mizejewski
Val McDermid’s Profilers, Professors, and Rogue Knowledges.” 
 

1.30- 2.30 
 Lunch F27

2.30-4 Session 6
Panel 1 – Town Hall
The Contemporary and Beyond
Chair: Jesper Gulddal
  • Duncan Dicks (University of Gloucestershire): Crime writing and the challenge of the internet of things
  • Veronique Desnain (The University of Edinburgh): The bad resolution in French post-68 Crime Fiction
  • HollyGale Millette (University of Southampton): Gothic Post-human crime in The Expanse - The interstellar gumshoe as epigraph
 
Panel 2 – The Lecture Room
Memories and Legacies
 
Chair:  Angel Lopez Gutierrez
   
  • Melinda Dabis (PPCU): What makes a detective? Investigating Kazuo Ishiguro's When We Were Orphans
  • Beatriz Domínguez García (U. Of Huelva, Spain): Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie's series: Gender abuse, detection and memory
  • Kylene N. Cave (Michigan State University): Memory's many drafts: witness and psychology of mind in Crime Fiction post-45
 
Panel 3 – F32
Psychic Spaces
Chair: Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
 
  • Sarah Martin (University of Chester): Examining the 'artistic unity' of psychogeography and detection in Dorothy L Sayers' Gaudy Night
  • Jennifer Palmer (Independent Scholar): Escapism versus emotional detachment? What makes historical crime fiction set on the WW2 Home Front in Britain so much more explicit than the crime fiction of those writing during of just after WW2
  • Chiho Nakagawa (Nara Women’s University): Finding self in the house: Gothic house and locked room
 
Panel 4 – F24
Highsmith and Crime Fiction: From the Global to the Gastropod
Chair:    Eva Burke
  • Amber Huckle (Bath Spa University): Global Gun Culture: Investigating gun culture in contemporary Crime Fiction in relation to the writings of James Ellroy, Patricia Highsmith and Pierre Lemaitre
  • Charlotte Smith (Bath Spa University): When snails are better at love than humans: snails, sex, and repression in Patricia Highsmith’s Deep Water
  • Sally Jones (University of Chester): Through the Eyes of Beasts: Practices of Empire in Highsmith's "Chorus Girl’s Absolutely Final Performance"
 
Flash Fiction Workshop – SB.F.01 (The Riding School Seminar Room)
Participants: Melanie Golding, Steven Butler, Abby Bentham, Dorothy Marshall-Gent
 
 

4.00-4.30 Coffee F27

4.30-6 Session 7
Transgression, Gender, and Sexualities 
Chair: Beatriz Domínguez García
Panel 1 – Town Hall
  • Nicole Aceto (Duquensne University): Preservation of masculine Britain through violence against women in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell
  • Dunja Plazonja (University of Zagreb): "Girls on Fire": girlhood and hysteria as the outsiders of crime fiction
  • J. C. Bernthal (University of Cambridge and Middlesex University): 'Just Like Poor Annabella': Incest in twentieth century detective fiction
 
 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Creating and Transgressing Borders
Chair: Jean Gregorek
  • Annemarie Lopez (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia): Red Light East: spaces of corruption and bodily exploitation in global noir
  • Linda Ledford Miller (University of Scranton): Crossing Lines beyond Borders
  • Pinaki Roy  (Raiganj University): The detective versus the colony: a very brief review of the concept of the empire and the subaltern in select Sherlock Holmes narrative 
 
Panel 3 – F32
Fractured Identities 
Chair: Stephen Butler
  • Felicity Hand (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona): Injured Reputations and Shifting Identities: Anita Nair's A Cut-Like Wound
  • Zenith Roy (Dinabandhu Mahavidyalaya, Bongaon): Resident Evil: Criminality as the Core of the Human Psyche in Modern Crime Fiction
  • Spencer Meeks (Manchester Metropolitan University): 'Wasn't that your dream - the scientifically correct child?': Neuroscience as 'outsider' in contemporary crime narratives.
 
 
Panel 4 – F24
Transgressions: Borders and Speech Acts
Chair: Agnieszka Sienkiewicz--Charlish
 
  • Sonia Maria Melchiorre (University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy): Utterances and 'Zivaisms': Ziva David and the outsider's speech acts in NCIS
  • Jesper Gulddal (University of Newcastle, Australia):  Clues and the readability of the world
  • Genevieve Later (Thompson Rivers University): The border that never was: changing narrative strategies in True Crime writing

7.30
Conference Dinner – Guyer’s House

 
 
SATURDAY
 
10-11.30 Session 8
Panel 1 – Town Hall
New Women and Neo-Victorians
Chair: Alison Moulds
  • Christine Saxby (Queen Mary University, London): The New Woman detective in Richard Marsh's Judith Lee, Some Pages from her Life (1912)
  • Melissa Raines (University of Liverpool): 'I only borrowed her clothing for a time': Dress and Depth in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace
  • Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (University of Málaga): Kate Williams's The Pleasures of Men (2012): Mental disorder, trauma, resilience
 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Animality and Animals
Chair: Frankie Dobson
  • Christopher Pittard (University of Portsmouth): Loveday Brooke and the Apocalyptic Crimes of Animality
  • Nicole Kenley (Simpson University, USA): '"Investigate their past lives": Animals and Buddhism in John Burdett's Bangkok Series
 
 
Panel 3 –F32
Gladys Mitchell
Chair: Stefano Serafini
  • Alexandra Stephenson (Bath Spa University): The Rule Breakers: Blurring the lines between the Feminine and the Masculine in Gladys Mitchell's Speedy Death
  • Sean Sloan (Bath Spa University): Bats in the belfry: lunacy and psychopaths in the works of Gladys Mitchell
 

11.30-1.00 Session 9
Panel 1 – Town Hall
Women and Crime
Chair: Gaynor Baker
  • Kerstin Bergman (Lund University, Sweden): Outsiders on the Inside (Swedish Women Detectives Following in the Footsteps of Lisbeth Salander)
  • Mary Anna Evans (University of Oklahoma, USA): How do you face a Jury that does not see you as a peer?: Agatha Christie's Portrayal of Gender, Justice and Subversion in "The Witness for the Prosecution"
  • Roberta Garrett (Hate not Hope: Popular Feminism, Neoliberalism and the rise of 'Grip-Lit')
 
Panel 2 – The Lecture Room
Victorian Lady Detectives
Chair: Samuel Saunders
  • Benedick Turner (St. Joseph’s College, New York): 'Gendering the Victorian "Lady" Detective
  • Dominque Gracia (University of Exeter): Female detectives, females detected: bodily tools and tells in Victorian detective fiction
  • Darcey Lovell (Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, USA): Femininity, marginality, and duality: exploring how Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective operates in liminal spaces
 
 
Panel 3 – F32
Creative Writing
Chair: Sally Jones
  • Gwyneth Tyrer (Liverpool John Moores University): Oddballs and misfits: describing Wales in crime fiction writing
  • Cristiana Pugliese (Lumsa University, Rome): Get Shorter: Investigating the Crime Genre through Flash Fiction
  • Cal Smyth (University of South Wales): The Balkan Route
 

1.00-2.00
Lunch – Main House F27

2.00-3.00 
Town Hall
Chair: Jo Parsons
Keynote: Mary Evans
The Spectre of Women: Fantasies and Realities of Women in post 1970 Detective Fiction.
 

3.00-5.00 Session 10
Panel 1 – Town Hall
Crime Fiction and Society
Chair: Fiona Peters
  • Annette Wren (Texas Christian University): Broadchurch: Challenging and Undoing the Rape Myth
  • María Cristina Sanz Villegas (Esic/Rey Juan Carlos University): Feminism in Spanish black novels.  The case of Petra Delicado.
  • Chloe Treharne (Bath Spa University): Ruth Rendell
  • Margarita Giménez-Bon (University of the Basque Country): Basque mythology and the presence of good and evil in "Baztan Trilogy"
 
Panel 2 – The Lecture Room
Detectives, Heroes, Villains
Chair: Felicity Hand
 
  • Sally B. Beresford-Sheridan (University of Waterloo): From Hercules to Hercule: the 'landed' hero
  • Ángel López Gutiérrez (Esic/Rey Juan Carlos University): Narrator, detective and victims in They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
  • Marianne Colbran (Mannheim Centre, London School of Economics, Uk): Watching The Detectives: can police dramas ever tell the truth about policing?
 
 
 

5.00
Closing remarks – Town Hall