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Conference on ‘Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre’
June 22, 2013 @ 9:00 am
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June 22nd and 23rd
Conference on
‘Gender and Sexuality in the Crime Genre’.
Organisers Dr Kate Quinn, NUIG
and Dr Marieke Krajenbrink, UL.
For more information contact kate.quinn@nuigalway.ie
Friday 21st June
Registration: 9:00-9:30
9:30-11:00 Parallel Session 1
Scandinavian Crime I: Women Crime Writers
Chair: |
Noir Men and Women I Chair: |
Paula Arvas (Helsinki) Is there a glass ceiling for Finnish women crime writers? |
Deborah Walker (Auckland) Fatal men in classic French film noir |
Jacky Collins (Northumbria) The ‰Û÷Irene Huss’ novels by Helene Tursten |
Martin Rosenstock (Kuwait) Sterile Erotics in the Interwar Period: Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau (1999) |
Jane Rosenbaum (Rider) Nina Borg The Boy in the Suitcase and the gendering of heroes and victims |
Maysaa Jaber (Baghdad) Opening the “Forbidden Box”: female criminality and agency in the works of James M. Cain |
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 – Parallel Session 2
Scandinavian Crime II: The Millennium Trilogy. Chair: |
Noir Men and Women II Chair: |
V̩ronique Kwak (Taiwan National Cheng-chi University) From victim to victimizer: Corporeal suffering as spatial transcendence of genders in the case of Stieg Larsson’s The Girl who Played with Fire |
Linda Crawford (Salve Regina) Men writing women in noir: Paco Ignacio Taibo II and Luis Sep̼lveda |
Deepthi Sebastian (QUB) The dissonant body of Lisbeth Salander |
Veronika PitukovÌÁ (Masaryk University) Hard-boiled Mike Hammer and seductive babes |
Kerstin Bergman (Lund) The women who are hated by men: Women victims and Heroes in the Millennium Trilogy |
Richard Williams (Independent Scholar) Interrogating the alleged misogyny of Gardner’s portrayal of Bertha Cool |
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Parallel Session 3
French Crime Chair: |
New incarnations and the ongoing influence of Sherlock Holmes Chair: |
Meryem BelkaÌød Women written and women writers in modern French crime fiction |
Palle Schantz Lauridsen (Copenhagen) Holmes & Watson: Friendship, bromance, and sexuality, 1887-2014 |
Eva Robustillo-BayÌ_n (Seville) French women detectives in contemporary French crime fiction: Louise Morvan and Gloria Parker-Simmons |
Malcah Effron (Case Western Reserve, Ohio) Holmes’s female companions: Re-figuring Watson as a woman |
Andrea Hynynen (Abo Akademi University, Finland and Universit̩ Paris 13) Size matters: challenging gender and sexual norms through the detective’s body – a comparison of Fred Vargas’s and Pierre Lemaitre’s crime novels |
Antoine Dech̻ne (Li̬ge/CIPA/Belspo) Gender and sexuality in the metaphysical thriller: the case of Paul Auster |
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 – Parallel Session 4
Masculinities Chair: |
18th and 19th-century constructions of the female criminal Chair: |
Dominique Jeannerod (QUB) Putting the killer to rest: Gender and generic exhaustion in Manchette’s The Prone Gunman |
Anna C. Jenkin (Sheffield) ‰Û÷Sensation, seduction and submission: representations of murderous wives in eighteenth-century London and Paris’ |
Jeffrey Halpern (Rider) ‰Û÷When worlds collide: images of masculinity in the novels of Tony Hillerman’ |
Shampa Roy (Delhi) Errant Wives and Wanton Widows: Gender and Crime in the Crime Narratives of one of the first crime writers in Bengal |
Louise Vincent (Rhodes) Gender and Sexuality in South African Twenty-first Century Crime Fiction |
Joanne Simpson (University of Ulster) ‰Û÷Mad, bad and pathetic: engendering evil in the Victorian novel’ |
18:15-19:15 Keynote by Dr Andrew Pepper of QUB (Academic and Crime Writer)
‘Appropriating the Nineteenth Century: The New Economy of Work and Sex in Crime Fiction’
19:15 Wine Reception and Formal Welcome
Saturday 22nd June
09:30-11:00 Parallel Session 5
Women in Contemporary International Crime Fiction Chair: |
Partners in crime. Chair: |
Liala Khronopoulo (St Petersburg) ‰Û÷”Weak” and “strong” women characters in contemporary Japanese crime stories |
Eva Erdmann (Freiburg) Masculine/feminine – detecting couples in crime fiction: from Miss Marple/Hercule Poirot to Sarah Lund/Jens=Peter Raben |
Madhumita Chakraborty (Delhi) Women in Bangla detective fiction |
Arco van Ieperen (PWSZ) The equilibrium of the sexes: gender equality in Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series |
Patricia Plummer (Duisburg-Essen) Female sleuths: a survey of contemporary trends |
Linda Ledford-Miller (Scranton) Just hot enough: gender roles and sexuality in J. D. Robb’s detective series |
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 6
Deadly Affairs Chair: |
Screening Gender I Chair: |
Silvia Ammary (John Cabot University, Rome) Poe’s beautiful dead women: males’ fictional ideals |
Eduardo ObradÌ_ (Cantabria) This is a man’s world: the women of the game in The Wire |
Tina Pusse (NUIG) H. H. Jahnn’s The Wooden Ship trilogy |
Noel O’Shea (UL) Performing masculinity in the films of Michael Mann |
Joel Phillips (Rider) Love Triangle as Mise en Abyme in Wesley Stace’s Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer |
Natascha Haarstick (Ruprecht-Karls-UniversitÌ_t Heidelberg) Female investigators in the German TV series Tatort |
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Parallel Session 7
Italian Crime Writers and Gender Chair: |
Screening Gender II Chair: |
Carol Nicholson (Rider) Ockham’s Razor, Women, and God: Philosophical Themes in The Name of the Rose |
Henrietta Phillips (Birmingham) Competition, narcissism and the spectacle of British “Northern” masculinity in pop-cultural accounts of Ian Brady and Peter Sutcliffe |
Elizabeth Scheiber (Rider) Bending Gender and Genre: Changing Gender Roles in Italian Crime Fiction |
Samantha Lindop (Queensland) Deadly Lesbians and the Contemporary Cinematic Crime Thriller |
Barbara Pezzotti (Independent Scholar) Blame it on the Tranny: Transvestism and Transgender in Andrea G. Pinketts’s Crime Fiction |
Kylo-Patrick Hart (Texas Christian University) Queering the Crime ‰Û÷Splatter Film’: The Case of William Friedkin’s Cruising |
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:00 Parallel Session 8
True Crimes and Criminals Revisited Chair: |
Screening Gender III: Psychology Chair: |
Dunlaith Bird (Oxford/ENS Paris) Bodies in the Bosphorus: true crime and travel writing |
Rachel MagShamhrÌÁin (University College Cork) The Female Thief in Marnie: Poor or Poorly? |
Marian Lara-Ja̩n and Jean-Philippe Imbert (DCU) Bleeding Borders, Bleeding Bodies: Violence and Sexuality in Desert Blood (Alicia Gaspar De Alba, 2005) |
Jacqui Miller (Liverpool Hope) ‰Û÷He certainly wasn’t a pervert‘: (A)sexuality, Abnormal Psychology, and Criminality in the novels of Patricia Highsmith and their filmed adaptations |
Katarina Gregersdotter (Ume̴ University, Sweden) Gender, sexuality and the power of storytelling in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace |
Sujata Moorti (Middlebury, Vermont) Crime on your mind: Scientific identities |
18:00-19:00 Keynote: Professor Lisa Downing (Birmingham)
‰Û÷Romancing the Cannibal: Genre and Gender Trouble in Thomas Harris’s Hannibal (1999)’
20:00 or 20:30: Conference Dinner in the Radisson Blu Hotel (Time to be confirmed)