The inside of a shell: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades

International conference
The inside of a shell: Alice Munro's Dance of the Happy Shades
6-7 November 2014
Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon

This international conference will focus exclusively on Alice Munro's first collection of short stories, Dance of the Happy Shades, published in 1968, and will try and offer new perspectives, some forty-five years after its publication. Contributors will adopt a variety of approaches that will illuminate the main themes, narrative strategies, literary traditions, modes of writing, generic traits and any other component of the short stories.

All papers will be delivered in English. Papers will then be peer-reviewed for publication (publication due in the Spring of 2015).

• Claire Bazin, Professor of English literature at the University of Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense, co-director of the Research group FAAAM (Femmes Auteurs Anglo-AMéricaines)
• Catherine Delmas, Professor of English literature at the University of Stendhal -Grenoble 3, director of the Research group CEMRA (Centre d'Etudes sur les Modes de la Représentation Anglophone)
• Vanessa Guignery, Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the ENS in Lyon, member of the Institut Universitaire de France
  
• Claire Omhovère, Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Montpellier 3 – Paul Valéry, director of the Société d'Étude des Pays du Commonwealth and of the scholarly journal Commonwealth Essays and Studies
• Héliane Ventura, Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University of Toulouse 2 Le Mirail, specialist of Alice Munro.
  
  
   

• Sonia Ferhani, PhD student and lecturer at the ENS de Lyon
• Vanessa Guignery, Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the ENS in Lyon
  
• Mathilde Le Clainche, PhD student and lecturer at the ENS de Lyon
• Catherine Pesso-Miquel, Emeritus Professor of English and postcolonial literature at the University Lumière Lyon 2
• Pauline Pilote, PhD student and lecturer at the ENS de Lyon
• Juliette Tran, PhD student and lecturer at the ENS de Lyon