PLENARY SPEAKERS
- Dr Valérie Bénéjam, Nantes Université
- Mary Costello, winner of the Irish Novel of the Year Award for Academy Street, author of The China Factory, Barcelona, and The River Capture
- Joshua Cohen, Pulitzer prize winning author of Witz, Book of Numbers, The Netanyahus
- Dr Julie Weng, Texas State University
SPECIAL GUESTS
- Áine Stapleton, dance artist and filmmaker, director of Medicated Milk, Horrible Creature and Somewhere in the body
- Michael Joyce, pioneer creator of hypertext fiction, including afternoon. a story, twilight, and co-author of Lasting Image, poet and novelist (War outside Ireland)
- Carolyn Guyer, pioneer author of hypertext fiction, including Quibbling, creator and curator of ‘Mother Millennia’ collaborative web work, co-author of Lasting Image
- Zenon Fajfer, Polish poet, playwright, creator of Liberature, a new literature genre,
co-author, with Katarzyna Bazarnik, of Finnegans Make after Thought, Word and Deed of Mr James Joyce (premiered in Dublin 1996) - Zachary Leader, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Roehampton in London and author of Ellmann’s Joyce, The Life of Kingsley Amis and the two-volume Life of Saul Bellow, alongside multiple works of criticism and scholarship. He is General Editor of The Oxford History of Life-Writing and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.