[Commlist] CFP: Investigating Agatha Christie Conference

Please find a CFP below for the 2019 Agatha Christie conference, which 
some of you may find of interest, especially following the debates 
regarding the most recent adaptation..!


*_Agatha Christie: Investigating the Queen of Crime _*

/5-6 September 2019, Solent University, Southampton UK /


The bestselling novelist of all time, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) is 
increasingly being recognised in scholarship and popular culture as one 
of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. In response to 
what Martin Edwards calls the ‘lazy critical cliché’ of branding Golden 
Age Detective Fiction as ‘cosy’, this conference will investigate the 
significance of the Queen of Crime and her writings within academia and 
popular culture. In line with previous Agatha Christie conferences, the 
2019 conference will further establish and extend Christie Studies as an 
academic discipline, across and beyond the humanities. Responding to 
Christie’s ever-increasing popularity are the annual television 
adaptations such as 2018’s /The ABC Murders/, alongside a growing pool 
of continuation novels and fiction based around Christie’s life and 
work. Equally, we have academic texts in the new interdisciplinary field 
of Agatha Christie Studies, such as /Agatha Christie Goes to War 
/(2019). In short, as the centenary of her first novel approaches, 
Agatha Christie remains a phenomenon. All of this calls for an 
investigation into the Queen of Crime herself, her fictional works and 
her legacy.


We invite 300-word proposals for 20 minute papers. Suggested topics 
include, but are certainly not limited to:


• Examining Christie in the context of Golden Age crime fiction

• Analysing the meaning of ‘Queen of Crime’

• Screen adaptations

• The life and person of Agatha Christie

•The role and influence of religion

• New theoretical perspectives on Christie as a writer of crime fiction

• Agatha Christie’s influence in popular culture

• Agatha Christie positioned against her modernist contemporaries

• Continuation novels and rewriting

• The influence of Christie on her crime writing contemporaries and beyond

• The Detection Club and its influence on the role, writing and 
significance of Christie

• The context, significance, and influence of war

• Intertextuality and metanarrative

• Reading, studying, and teaching Agatha Christie

• New directions in research and scholarship


In addition to traditional academic paper proposals, we welcome creative 
presentations and panel proposals. Please send your 300 word proposal 
with a short biographical note to (agathachristieconference /at/ gmail.com) no 
later than 31 March 2019. Please direct all queries and enquiries to the 
same address.


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