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Haunting in Short Fiction and Its Adaptations 20-21 November 2015, University of Angers, FranceEdge Hill University, University of Leuven,University of Le Mans, University of Nantes, University of Angers and the European Network for Short Fiction ResearchFriday 20 November 20159 a.m. registration9.30 – 11 a.m. PANELS 1, 2Panel 1: Maternal Ghosts ¡ Frida Kahlo roomHelen E. Mundler, Université Paris-Est CréteilThe maternal impulse as ghost: three hauntings in contemporary women’s fiction: A.S. Byatt, Fay Weldon, Alison LuriePascale Tollance, Université de Lyon 2A Writer’s Ghosts: The Spectre of Matricide in A.S Byatt’s “The Changeling”Leslie de Bont, Université de Nantes“Effy’s Passion for the Mother Who Had Not Loved her Was the Supernatural Thing”: Haunting as an expression of attachment in May Sinclair’s “The Intercessor”Panel 2: Domestic Ghosts ¡ Germaine Tillion roomJorge Sacido-Romero, University of Santiago de CompostelaGhostly Visitations in Contemporary Short Fiction by Women: Fay Weldon, Janice Galloway and Ali SmithSylvia Mieszkowski, University of BayreuthSpectres of Domesticity: Tessa Hadley’s “Bad Dreams” and Carly Holmes’s “Piece by Piece”Rhoda Greaves, Birmingham City UniversityThe Absent Child in Contemporary British Short Fiction11- 11.15 a.m. coffee11.15-11:30 a.m. Official Opening of the Conference 11:30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. PLENARY LECTURE ¡ Germaine Tillion roomLiliane Louvel, Université de Poitiers“Bathed in an 'incredible sweetness of light’: ‘the lost day of Michael Bruen's funeral,’” a Reading of John MacGahern's “The Wine Breath”12.30 – 2 p.m. LUNCH2-3.30 p.m. PANELS 3, 4Panel 3: Female Gothic ¡ Germaine Tillion roomLily Robert-Foley, Université d’AngersHaunting the Female Gothic: Haunted readings of ghost stories by womenAnne Besnault-Levita, Université de RouenMirrors of the Self and the Tradition of the “Female Gothic”: Scenes of Hauntings and Apparitions in Victorian and Modernist Short FictionLaura Torres Zúñiga, Catholic University of MurciaSpecters of Motherhood in Helen Simpson's StoriesPanel 4: Story in/and other media ¡ Frida Kahlo roomC.D. Rose, Edge Hill UniversityHaunted VoicesGilles Couderc, Université de CaenThe Ghosts at Bly or the Ubiquity of Evil in Benjamin Britten’s Turn of the Screw 3.30-4 p.m. COFFEE 4 – 5.30 p.m. PANELS 5, 6, 7 Panel 5: Colonial and Postcolonial Ghosts ¡ Frida Kahlo room Jaine Chemmachery, University of Paris 1 SorbonneGhosts and Haunting in Kipling’s Colonial Tales: Revealing the Duplicity of European ModernityMathilde Caër, HCTI, l'Université Bretagne Occidentale (Brest)"[A] very odd easiness towards ghosts “: the Necessity of Being Haunted in Keri Hulme's short storiesDominique Dubois, Université d’AngersFighting the Ghosts of the Past: the Haunting Search for Identity in a Postcolonial Context in Pauline Melville’s Shape-Shifter and The Migration of GhostsPanel 6: American Ghosts I ¡ Julien Gracq room Robert M. Luscher, University of Nebraska at KearneyGhosts of Vietnam: The Haunted Liminal Spaces of Robert Olen Butler’s A Good Scent from a Strange MountainBénédicte Meillon, University of PerpignanCrouching Specters and Hidden Masters in “Black Man and White Woman in Dark Green Row Boat,” by Russell Banks.Amélie Moisy, MC Université Paris Est CréteilHaunting and Satire in the Short Fiction of George Saunders Panel 7: Spectrality, Past, Present ¡ Germaine Tillion roomAilsa Cox, Edge Hill UniversityJon McGregor’s Haunting VoicesAdèle Cassigneul, Université de Bordeaux 2 and Université Toulouse-Jean JaurèsVirginia Woolf’s Haunted House of FictionRhiannon Marks, Cardiff University‘Knock knock!’ ‘Who’s there?’ ‘Death…’: Postmodernism haunts Modernism? 6:00-7:00 p.m. READINGS: Ailsa Cox, Rhoda Greaves and C.D. Rose 8 p.m. CONFERENCE DINNERSaturday 21 November9.30 – 11 a.m. PANELS 8, 9, 10Panel 8: Canadian Ghosts ¡ Frida Kahlo roomChristine Lorre, Paris III, Sorbonne NouvelleLandscape and Traces in Alice Munro’s Short StoriesCorinne Bigot, Université Paris Ouest NanterreGhost Texts in Alice Munro's Short StoriesTeresa Gibert, Spanish National University of Distance Education (UNED)Spectral Soldiers in Margaret Atwood’s Short FictionPanel 9: Female Gothic ¡ Julien Gracq roomXavier Lachazette, Université du Maine, Le MansHaunting Heiress: the Short Stories of Daphne du MaurierThomas Legendre, University of NottinghamGhostly Desires in Edith Wharton’s ‘Miss Mary Pask’Elena Pinyaeva, Financial University under the Government of the Russian FederationMelusina’s Oscillations as the Spectral Motif in M. Roberts’s “Anger”Panel 10: American Ghosts II ¡ Germaine Tillion roomJocelyn Dupont, University of PerpignanHaunting and the city: Patrick McGrath’s Ghost Town. Tales of Manhattan Then and NowTanya Tromble, Aix Marseille UniversitéPhantoms of Loss: Hauntings in Joyce Carol Oates’s “Anniversary” and “The Haunting”Ineke Bockting, Institut Catholique de Paris“Hovering in the World of Twilight”: When Both Narrator and Character are Haunted by the Past&#160;11- 11.15 a.m. COFFEE11.15 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. READING &#38; INTERVIEW with Jon McGregor12.30 – 2 p.m. LUNCH2-3.30 p.m. PANELS 11, 12, 13Panel 11: Edgar Allan Poe ¡ Germaine Tillion roomMercedes Peñalba, University of SalamancaGraphic Poe: “The Tell-Tale Heart” and Its Palimpsest TextsJulie Berlin Emerek Jensen, Université du MaineThe Dominant Role of the Female Protagonists in the Haunted and StrangeWorlds of Edgar Allan PoeJennifer K. Dick, Université de Haute AlsaceMadness and the spectral: Edgar Allan Poe and Laura Mullen’s The Tell-Tale HeartPanel 12: Spectral Returns in the 19th century ¡ Julien Gracq roomWhitehead Sarah, University of KingstonHumorous Hauntings: the Comic Gothic in the Short Stories of Joseph Sheridan Le FanuEsin Korkut, Middle East Technical University, Ankara/ TurkeyResurrection of the Past through the Archival Body and the Function of Spectrality in “The Withered Arm” by Thomas HardyMiłosz Wojtyna, University of GdańskThe Ghost of Modernism. Short Story Criticism and the European CanonPanel 13: Technologies, Bodies, Gender ¡ Frida Kahlo roomMary Conde, Queen Mary, University of LondonPhotographing the ‘blind face that cries and can’t wipe its eyes’: Rudyard Kipling’s Haunting StoriesGaïd Girard,HCTI, UBO Brest“It’s like she is a hologram stuck behind my eyes”: Cybernetics and the Gendered Spectral in William Gibson’s “Burning Chrome” (1986)Lilia Kilburn, MITTrans-Substantiation: Unruly Bodies and Transgender Ghosts in Thomas Page McBee's "Self-Made Man"3.30-4 p.m. coffee 4 – 6.00 p.m. PANELS 14, 15 Panel 14: Haunting Pasts and Places ¡ Frida Kahlo room Suzanne Bray, Université Catholique de Lille“Am I my Brother’s Keeper?” or “The Kingdom of Hell is Within Us”: A Spiritual Haunting in Charles Williams’ “Et in Sempiternum Pereant”Deborah Bridle-Surprenant, Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis“Haunted, you said?”: Arthur Machen's Short Stories as Haunted and Haunting Places.Gérald Préher, Université Catholique de LilleStorytelling and Myth-Making in William Goyen’s “A Shape of Light”Thorunn Lonsdale, Ithaca College London CentreA letter to the dead: Jean Rhys’s ‘Pioneers, Oh, Pioneers’Panel 15: Modernist and Postmodernist haunting ¡ Germaine Tillion roomPaul March-Russell, University of KentThe Abcanny Politics of Landscape in Lucy Wood’s Diving BellesLeena Eilittä, University of TampereDetermining Haunting in “The True Story of AH Q” by Lu Xun.Laura Lojo-Rodríguez, Universidade de Santiago de CompostelaHaunting and Spectrality in Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover”Jim Hinks, Edge Hill UniversityHaunting, Hesitation and Adaptation. How Tsvetan Todorov informs my practice as research 6:00 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS&#160;