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Forthcoming Publication

A book proposal is currently being drafted, drawing on material from the two symposiums plus other contributions, with a view to a publication with Bloomsbury.

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You will find below the provisional table of contents (by alphabetical order in this draft version). This will help to avoid submitting abstracts for the 2026 international conference on topics that are already covered. 

• Kathie Birat (Université de Lorraine) – ‘“It’s the territory that’s important”: Caryl Phillips’s Fictional Representation of Jean Rhys in A View of the Empire at Sunset’
• Antonella Braida (Université de Lorraine) – ‘Mary Shelley as Character in Contemporary Fiction and Drama: Feminist and Remedial Rewritings’
• Tom Brown (King’s College London) – ‘Author-Biopics in Classical Hollywood: Gender, Agency and Labour’
• Laura Cernat (KU Leuven) – ‘From Vertigo to Nostalgia: The Rise, Decline, and Return of Metabiofiction’
• Alper Erçetingöz (Aydın Adnan Menderes University) – ‘Biographical Cinema and the Image of the Solitary Genius: The Cinematic Reconstruction of J. D. Salinger'
• Tugce Kutlu (Ankara University) – ‘Shirley Jackson as Spectral Author: Horror, Biofiction, and the Gothic Reimagining of a Literary Life’
• Camille Martin-Payre (Université de Tours) – ‘Wilde on Screen: Narrative and Adaptation in Biographical Cinema’
• William McKenzie (Université Catholique de l’Ouest) – ‘Writing in Will’s Name: Characterising and Charactering Shakespeare in Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague by Maggie O’Farrell and Shakespeare’s Sonnets 135 and 136’
• Doriane Nemes (Université de Lorraine) – ‘Oscar as Forgery of Wilde? Biofiction and the Truth of Masks’
• Armelle Parey (Université de Caen Normandie) – ‘“Find your own voice, Mary”: Haïfaa Al‑Mansour’s Mary Shelley (2017) as Neo-Romantic Biopic?’
• Anne-Laure Rigeade (Université Paris-Est Créteil) – ‘What is an Author-Character? The Case of Virginia Woolf in French-Language Biofiction’
• Alexandra Semenova (Autonomous University of Madrid) – ‘“I Don’t Have a Gun, Do I?” William Burroughs and Rhizomatic Optics in Queer, the Novel and the Film’
• Matthew Smith (Université de Lorraine) – ‘Postmodern Fantasy or Reverse-Engineering the Authentic in Author-Biofiction and Author‑Biopics: The Cases of Stephanie Barron’s Jane Austen Mystery Series and Julian Jarrold’s Becoming Jane’
• Lara Thompson (Middlesex University) – ‘The Infamous Capote: Queer Aesthetics, Mythic Storytelling, and Killer Lines’