​Captivating Criminality 4.
Crime Fiction: Detection, Public and Private, Past and Present
Bath Spa University
29th June – 1st July 2017
 
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THURSDAY
 
9.00
Registration and coffee (The Barn)

9.30-10
Welcome (The Barn)
Welcome from Dr. Fiona Peters, Director of the International Crime Fiction Association
Welcome from Professor Neil Sammells, Deputy Vice-Chancellor Bath Spa University

10-11.30 Session 1
Panel 1 – The Barn
Questions of Domestic Subversions: The Evil in the House
Chair: Fiona Peters

• Ruth Heholt (Falmouth University): ‘The First Detectives? Catherine Crowe’s Lowly Sleuthing Women and Villainously Selfish Men’
• Stephen Butler (Ulster University): ‘Main is Tiger to Man? An interdisciplinary reading of Kuriawan’s Man Tiger’
• Lucy Andrew (University of Chester): ‘Neptune, Nostalgia and New Media: Reviving Veronica Mars’

Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Northern Noir: Footprints in the Snow
Chair: Eric Sandberg

• Kerstin Bergman (Independent Scholar): ‘The Body as Sign(s) of Transformation. The Function of Tattoos in the Millennium Novels’
• Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir (University of Iceland): ‘Re-Imagining a Murderess’ life: Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites as Speculative Biography’
• Andy Lawrence (Northumbria University): 'Cracking the Case: Representational Politics and Iceland's Jimmy Saville’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
Trauma and Transgression
Chair: Jacqui Miller

• Kathryn Silverstein (Stony Brook University): ‘Not Flesh, but Light, and Air, and Colour: Empathy, and Trans-formative Embodiment in Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal’
• María José Álvarez Maurín (Universidad de León. Spain): ‘Sleuthing 11-M: Terrorism in Spanish Roman Noir’
• Veronica Watson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania): ‘Black Crime Fiction in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter’

 

11.30-1 Session 2
Panel 1 – The Barn
Revisiting the Golden Age
Chair: Gaynor Baker

• Charlotte Charteris (Churchill College, Cambridge): ‘The Nightmare Things of the Mind. Patrick Hamilton’s ‘Highbrow’ Thrillers of the Interwar Years’
• Isabell Grosse (Leipzig University): ‘Re-imagining the Golden Age Lady Detective’
• Jon Wilkins (Independent Scholar): ‘Mrs. Paschal, Miss Gladden and Miss Brooke: Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Detectives’

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Negotiating Voyeuristic Boundaries
Chair: Lucy Andrew

• Samuel Saunders (Liverpool John Moores University): ‘Recollections, Memoirs and Experiences of a…: The Voyeuristic View of Victorian Policing and Memoir-Style Crime Fiction’
• Dorothea Flothow (University of Salzburg): ‘The Detective as Historian Revisited: The Detecting Process and the Shapes of History’
• Isabela Duarte Britto Lopes (UFF): ‘Why not the Police?: Relations between Classic Detection Fiction and Crime Fiction in Brazil’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
Place and the Cannon
Chair: Linda Ledford Miller

• Ted Merwin (Dickinson College, Pennsylvania): ‘Outsiderness in the Jewish State: The Crime Novels of Batya Gur’
• Shampa Roy (Miranda House, Delhi University): ‘Detection and Desire: Male Goyendas (Detectives) and their Female bete-noires in the early Bangla Detective novels’
• Nicholas Waters (University of Hertfordshire): ‘Detection and the Body in Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon’

1-2
Lunch (F27)

2-3
The Barn
Chair: Fiona Peters
Keynote: Sophie Hannah

3-4.30 - Session 3
Panel 1- The Barn
Urbanisation
Chair: Richard  Stamp

• Eric Sandberg (University of Oulu): ‘Make Britain Great Again: Nostalgia in Derek Raymond’s Factory Novels’
• Emma Robertson (University of Santiago de Compostela): ‘Three White Men Walk into a Bar: Challenging the Classic Profile of the European Detective Protagonist in 1990’s Noir’
• Rebecca Mills (Bournemouth University): ‘Los Angeles is Too Big: Foggy Cartographies in Dorothy B. Hughes’s In a Lonely Place (1947)’

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Is That a Gun in Your Pocket?: Destabilising Sex, Gender, and Crime.
Chair: Elena Avanzas Álvarez

• J.C. Bernthal (Middlesex University): ‘Sex, Death, and Nostalgia: Detecting Queerness in Continuation Novels’
• Melissa Jacques (UBC, Okanagan): ‘Maureen and Melancholia: Violence, Misogyny, and Power in the Garnethrill Trilogy’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
International Crime
Chair: Kerstin Bergman

• Gary Wihl (Washington University): ‘Irony in Detective Fiction: The Case of Inspector Montalbano’
• Marcela Miller (Universidade Federal Fluminense): ‘Crime Scene Investigation in the Tropics: An Approach to Contemporary Brazilian Crime Fiction’
• Carlos Uxo (Monash University): ‘Cuban Crime Fiction: a literature for the (Communist) masses’

 

4.30-5
Cream Tea – F27

5-6 – Session 4
Panel 1 – The Barn
Avenging Angels
Chair: Rebecca Lloyd

• Kirsten T. Saxton (Mills College): ‘Pussybitesback: A Prehistory of Revenge Fiction’
• Julianne Adams (Wolfson College, University of Oxford): ‘“Her bloody and cruel Vengeance”: Reformulating a virtuous maiden and the female author in the revenge narratives of Manley, Aubin, and Haywood'

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Beyond the Interrogation Room: Alternative Crime Fiction
Chair: Jon Wilkins

• Angelica Michelis (Manchester Metropolitan University): ‘Culinary Transgressions: The Professional and Domestic Kitchen as Scenes of Crime in Anthony Bourdain’s Crime Writing’
• Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (University of Bamberg, Germany): The Invasion of the Working Class: The Victorian Detective

 
Panel 3 – Main House
Crime and Technology
Chair: Jacqui Miller

• Duncan Dicks (University of Gloucestershire): ‘A Tangled Web: Communication Technology and Crime Fiction’
• Domenico Galimi (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Becoming the Criminal ‘Other’: Critical Reflections on Final Fantasy VII’

 

6-7
Hector Duarte Jr (Florida International University): Flash Fiction Workshop. Main House

7- 8
Wine Reception – Main House

 
FRIDAY
9-10.30 – Session 5
Panel 1 (The Barn)
Art and Music
Chair: Lucy Andrew

• Rachael Durkin (Edinburgh Napier University): ‘The Adventure of the Stradivari: Victorian Forgery and Literary Influence in the Sherlock Canon’
• Christopher Pittard (University of Portsmouth): ‘You See It? Sidney, Paget, Visual Culture, and Sherlock Holmes’
• Susan Poznar (Arkansas Tech University): ‘Louise Penny’s Art for ‘Those Who Believe in Something Undefined and Unrestricted to Church’

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Murderous Attitudes: Agatha Christie and the Golden Age
Chair: Isabell Grosse

• Carol Westron (Independent Writer and Scholar): ‘A Thoroughly Bourgeois Attitude to Murder: The Golden Age of Detective Fiction: Murder and the Moral Imperative’
• Alistair Horne (Bath Spa University): ‘Two Red Herrings: The Curious Cases of Ariadne Oliver and Harriet Vane’
• Ruth Burton (University of Leeds): ‘Starved Appetites and Suppressed Impulses: Detecting Sexual and Social Deviance in Sayers’ Single Women’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
What Kind of Mother Are You?: Mothers and Women in Crime Fiction
Chair: Linda Ledford Miller

• Nicoletta Di Ciolla (Manchester Metropolitan University) and Anna Pasolini (University of Milan): ‘The ‘bad’ Mother in Theory, Fact, and Fiction: Literary Representations of ‘Mothers Who Damage’ against some theoretical models of motherhood’
• Natalia Ciofu (University of Essex): ‘The Failing Mother: The True Villain in Crime and Punishment by F. Dostoevsky’

10.30- 11
Coffee – Main House F27

11-12.30 Session 6
Panel 1 – The Barn
Threads and Fragments in Victorian Crime Fiction
Chair: Ruth Heholt

• Katherine Gordon (St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley): ‘‘I Shall Be Mr. Seek’: The Reader as Detective in Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’
• Neil McCaw (University of Winchester): ‘Science-Fiction Sherlock Holmes?’
• Alyson Hunt (Canterbury Christ  Church University): ‘Unravelling Threads:  Strings of Narrative in Baroness Orczy’s “The Old Man in the Corner” Stories " in Victorian Crime Fiction’

 
Panel 2- Lecture Room
Girl Interrupted: Criminal Girlhood
Chair: Elena Avanzas Álvarez

• Zoe Brigley Thompson (The Ohio State University): ‘Reframing ‘Like a Girl’: The Subversive Power of the Teenage Girl in Megan Abbott’s Dare Me’
• Maša Grdešić (University of Zagreb): ‘The Mystery of Girlhood in Tana French's The Secret Place’
• Dunja Plazonja (University of Zagreb): ‘Girlhood as Mystery and Detection in Megan Abbott’s Novels Dare Me and The Fever’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
All Beauty Must Die: Aesthetics in Crime Fiction
Chair: Felicity Hand

• Luis M. García-Mainar (University of Zaragoza): ‘The Introspective Realist Crime Film and Television: A Transnational Genre in Spain’
• Sally Jones (University of Chester): ‘Aesthetics and the Judgement of Taste: Highsmith’s Ripliad and the Rejection of America’

12.30-1.30
Lunch – Main House F27

1.30- 2.30
The Barn
Chair: Fiona Peters
Keynote: Gill Plain (University of St. Andrews): ‘Crime and Rehabilitation? Masculinity, risk and generic reinvention in the 1950s’

2.30-4 Session 7
Panel 1 – The Barn
Red, White, and Blue: American Influences
Chair: Elena Avanzas Álvarez

• Stewart King (Monash University): ‘From the Local to the Global: Reading World Crime Fiction’
• Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope University): ‘Jack’s Return Home to Doncaster, Newcastle, Southern California, and Seattle: British Noir and National and International Adaptation’
•  Tom O’Brien (University of Lincoln): ‘The Mexican Frontier: American Exceptionalism and Racial Binaries in Patricia Highsmith’s Mexico Stories’.

 
Panel 2 – The Lecture Room
Criminal Bodies
Chair:  Kirsten Saxton

• Coralie Jarvis Sanderson (University of New England, Armidale, Australia): ‘Transcending Post-Feminist Subterfuge: The Evolution of the Female Sleuth in Television Crime Drama’
• Helen Rutherford (Northumbria University): ‘An Awful Spectacle Presented Itself: The Strange Case of Archibald Bolam’
• Emily O’Grady (Queensland University of Technology): ‘Not an Isolated Incident: Exploring the Pattern of Male Violence Against Women in Contemporary Australian Crime Fiction’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
Criminality in Victorian Fiction
Chair: Jo Parsons

• Rebecca Lloyd (Falmouth University): ‘Gravy Soup: humouring conformity and counterfeiting in A Rogue’s Life’
• Sean Sloan (Bath Spa University): ‘Francois Eugene Vidocq: The True Father of Detective Fiction’
• Jackie Shead (Independent Scholar): ‘You Know My Methods’

4.00-4.30 Coffee F27

4.30-6 Session 8
Panel 1 – The Barn
Subversions and Normalizations: Women and Criminality
Chair: Sally Jones

• Gaynor Baker (Bath Spa): ‘The Normalizing of Detective Inspector Helen Grace’
• Sonia Maria Melchiore (University of Tuscia): ‘Peep Show(Ed) and Binge Watch(Ed): Female Sleuths in Recent TV Shows’
• Molly Slavin (Emory University): ‘I am Police-Walli Also: Gender, Criminality, and Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games’

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Forensics
Chair: Zoe Brigley Thompson

• Felicity Hand (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): ‘A Cold Case of Ritual Murder: Unity Dow’s The Screaming of the Innocent’
• Elena Avanzas Álvarez (University of Oviedo): ‘Karin Slaughter and the Regional Forensic Thriller’
• Wayne Morrison (Queen Mary University of London): ‘Julio Cortzara’s Critique of Vision in ‘Blow-Up’ and ‘Apocalypse at Solentiname’: Presuppositions for a ‘Global Criminology’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
International Crime Fiction
Chair: Eric Sandberg

• Somali Saren (The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad): ‘Reconstructing Crime and Detection in Transnational Crime Fiction: Reading Henning Mankell’s The Man from Beijing’
• Linda Ledford Miller (University of Scranton): ‘A Death Desired? Emily St. John Mandel’s Last Night in Montreal’
• Stefano Serafini (Royal Holloway, University of London): ‘Positivist Criminology and the Canonization of Crime Fiction in Early-Twentieth Century Italy’

6.30
Conference Dinner – Metheun Arms

 
 
SATURDAY
10-11.00 Session 9
Panel 1 – The Barn
Hard Boiled
Chair: Jon Wilkins

• Arco van Ieperen (University of Applied Sciences in Elblag): ‘Spenser versus Bolitar: The Place of the Detective in the Contemporary World’
• Ilse Schrynemakers (City University of New York’s Queenborough Community College): ‘Nuclear Family Values: Fallout Crimes in Ross Macdonald’s Crime Fiction’

 
Panel 2 – Lecture Room
Revenge Justice and Morality
Chair: Kirsten Saxton

• Christopher Wilson (Cardiff University): ‘Restorative Justice or Dangerous Liaisons?
• Anna Kirsch (Durham University): ‘Private Revenge or Public Justice: Environmental Morality and Ethics in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction’

11-11.30 Coffee – Main House F27

 

11.30-1.00 Session 10
Panel 1 – The Barn
Place and Space
Chair: Gaynor Baker

• Jennifer Schnabel (The Ohio State University): ‘A Dark Thread: Undercover Detection in Tana French’s Murder Squad Series’
• Annemarie Lopez (Journalist. Macquarie University): ‘Have Mystery Will Travel: Global Drifting Through Noir’
• Eoin McCarney (Dublin City University): ‘Bog and Desert Noir: Landscape, Identity, and Politics in Irish and Mexican Crime Fiction’

 
Panel 2 – The Lecture Room
Alternative Policing
Chair: Joanne Ella Parsons

• Brigitta Hudáskó (University of Debrecen): ‘Policing Everyone: Private Ventures into Public Discipline’
• Peter Doyle (Macquarie University): ‘Reading the Detectives: finding narrative values in the police report’
• Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (University of Warsaw): ‘The Victorian Prince of Detectives Abroad: Mr Whicher in Warsaw (2012)’

 
Panel 3 – Main House
Golden Age Women
Chair: Isabell Grosse

• Sarah Martin (The University of Chester): ‘Past Meets Present: Exposing the Developing Nature of Space over Time in Agatha Christie’s The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side’
• Laura Vorachek (University of Dayton): ‘The Colonial Other in Dorothy L. Sayers’ Unnatural Death’
• Carla Portilho (UFF): ‘Following Miss Marple’s Footsteps: Everyday Praxis and Resistance in the Works of Barbara Neely and Lucha Corpi’

1.00-1.45
Lunch – Main House F27

1.45- 2.45
The Barn
Chair: Jo Parsons
Keynote: Mary Evans (London School of Economics): ‘You are never alone as a criminal : anomie and crime’

2.45-4.15 Session 11
Panel 1 – The Barn
Victorian Nightmares
Chair: Jo Parsons

• Holly-Gale Millett (University of Southampton): ‘Love all, trust few, do wrong to none. If only that were true… Is that why you keep us all so close?: Detective Inspector River’s Inner Victorian Poisoner’
• Antonia Peroikou (University of Cyprus): ‘Becoming a ‘celebrated murderess’: Murder, Madness, Gender and Literary Manipulation in Atwood’s Alias Grace’
• Oriah Amit (UCLA): ‘Infernal Ingenuity: ‘Jack the Ripper and the Art of Murder’

 

4.15-4.30
Closing remarks – The Barn