Keynote speakers

Redouane Aboueddahab

Rédouane Abouddahab is Professor of American studies at the University of Le Mans; he taught previously at the University of Lyon. His research focuses on American literature, art and culture, which he studies mainly from a psychoanalytic perspective. His published works include:

Figures of the Migrant: The Roles of Literature and the Arts in Representing Migration (coedited with Siobhan Brownlie), New York and London, Routledge, 2021.

Interprétariat, traduction et interculturalité, special issue (coedited with Caroline Cunill), Sociocriticism (University of Granada, Spain), vol. 33 (2018).

L’écriture-limite. Poétique des nouvelles de Hemingway. Livre premier : chronologie et commentaire des récits (1919-1936), Lyon, Éditions Merry World, coll. « Anglophilia », 2012.

Livre deuxième : le paysage textuel, Lyon, Éditions Merry World, coll. « Anglophilia », 2012.

Fiction, Crime, and the Feminine (coedited with Josiane Paccaud-Huguet), Bristol, Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2011.

Leurres de l’identité, lueurs du désir. L’écriture comme création trans-identitaire, Lyon, Éditions Merry World, coll. « Anglophilia », 2011.

Textes d’Amérique : écrivains et artistes américains, entre américanité et originalité, Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, 2008.

Theodora Tsimpouki

Theodora Tsimpouki is Professor of American Literature and Culture at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She holds degrees in English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (BA), in Linguistics from the Sorbonne-Paris V (Maitrise), and in American Literature from New York University (M.A. and PhD.) She specializes in American realism, modernism and contemporary literature, the 1960s, theories of space and contemporary literary theory. She is co-editor of Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the US,Culture Agonistes: Debating Cultures, Rereading Texts and The War on the Human: New Responses to an Ever-Present Debate (2017). Her work has also appeared in edited volumes abroad and in Greece. Her recent published research includes articles on Edgar Allan Poe, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, E. L. Doctorow, American Exceptionalism, American ideology of space and literary waste studies. She has also edited a special issue of the e-journal EJAS on “Sustainability and the American City.” Her recent publication includes “Agency in Complicity: The Aesthetics of Trauma in Constance Fenimore Woolson’s ‘Miss Grief’ (Literature and Psychology: Writing, Trauma and the Self, 2019), “There Must Be No Ruins”: Ruinophobia and Urban Morphology in Turn-of the-Century New York. (Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination, 2019), “Henry James’s “‘The Aspern Papers’: Between the Narrative of an Archive and the Archive of Narrative” (The Henry James Review 39.2.2018). She was the Book Review editor of the European Journal of American Studies from 2001 to 2021.