[Commlist] CFP: Agatha Christie conference

The call for papers for the Agatha Christie conference 'Investigating 
the Queen of Crime' has been extended to *26 April*. We are interested 
to hear from academics with an interest in Christie's fiction, life and 
influences as well as adaptations of her work. Please find details below 
and send any queries or proposals to (agathachristieconference /at/ gmail.com)

I am also pleased to be able to confirm Dr Rebecca Mills and Dr Jamie 
Bernthal-Hooker as the conference's keynotes. Both have made great 
contributions to the study of Agatha Christie, and their keynote address 
will touch on their work on the forthcoming edited collection, /Agatha 
Christie Goes to War/.

The conference will be held at Solent University in Southampton from 5-6 
September this year and, as ever, we hope to include some special events 
as part of the programme.

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 (toagathachristieconference /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(agathachristieconference /at/ gmail.com)>no later than 31 March 2019. 
Please direct all queries and enquiries to the same address.


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