Participants

Conference Organizers

Clíona Ní Ríordáin is a translator and the Thomas J. and Kathleen M. O’Donnell Chair in Irish Language and Literature at the University of Notre Dame. Before joining Notre Dame, she taught Irish literature and translation studies at the Sorbonne Nouvelle from 2003-2023. She is the editor of four anthologies of Irish poetry, and two collections of essays, Speaking Like a Spanish Cow (Ibidem 2019) and The Poets and Poetry of Munster (Ibidem 2023). She co-authored Irlande: histoire, société, culture, with Maurice Goldring (La Découverte, 2012). Her monograph, English Language Poets in University College Cork (Palgrave 2020), was the first to explore the work of a generation of Irish poets who came to maturity after Donogh O’Malley’s 1967 education act. Yell, Sam, If You Still Can (Lilliput 2022), her translation of Maylis Besserie’s first novel, was a Financial Times Book of the Year in 2022. Her most recent publication is a personal anthology of the poems of Gerry Murphy, Plus loin encore (Circe, 2023), co-edited and co-translated with Paul Bensimon.

Brandon Menke is a poet and assistant professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, where he is affiliated faculty with the Program in Gender Studies. His current book project, Slow Tyrannies: Queer Lyricism, Visual Regionalism, and the Transfigured World, examines lyric form, regionalist aesthetics, and networks of queer intimacy in American literature and visual art from the 1920s to the 1970s. His poetry and scholarship on such topics as queer poetics, intermediality and aesthetic space, the translation of obscenity, Whitmanian multiplicities and Black feminist poets, and the AIDS elegy appears or is forthcoming in English Literary History, POETRY, Post45: Contemporaries, The Yale Review, The Contemporary Elegy in World Literature, The Routledge Companion to Walt Whitman, and elsewhere.

Wonbin Bae is a Ph.D. student in English at the University of Notre Dame, and she serves as the research assistant for the Prose Poetry Network. She studies modern and contemporary poetry, global modernism, and postcolonial/decolonial theory. She has served as a teaching assistant for college writing courses and introductory courses for undergraduate students at Seoul National University and at the University of Notre Dame.

Keynote

Will Schutt is an award-winning poet and translator. He is the author of Westerly, selected by Carl Phillips for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His translations from Italian include My Life, I Lapped It Up: Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti, Fabio Genovesi's novel The Breaking of a Wave, and Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems by Fabio Pusterla, published by Princeton University Press. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, the Raiziss/de Palchi Award from the Academy of American Poets, and many other awards. He lives in Rome and co-directs Policromia, an annual poetry and translation festival in Siena.

Panelists and Poets

Christophe Barnabé is Lecturer in French at New College, University of Oxford. A scholar of French and Comparative Literature, he works mainly on twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. His first book, Survivance du charme: Le poème et l’idée de guérison (MētisPresses, 2024), explores the relation between poetry, healing, and magic in an age of rational medical efficiency. His current research examines forms of poetic witnessing in modern and contemporary literature, particularly in the context of historical catastrophes.

Theo Barnett is a doctoral student in Russian at Balliol College, Oxford, researching the literature of the Russian Emigration in interwar Europe. His doctoral research project addresses Émigré receptions of the “Human Document”, a semi-autobiographical mode of writing derived from nineteenth-century French naturalism, via numerous contexts of transnational literature during the 1920s and ’30s; it situates the Human Document in Émigré print culture to reevaluate its significant intervention in contemporary debates about Russian literature and identity in exile. His project is cofunded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council Open Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Programme (AHRC O-O-C DTP) and the Clarendon Fund.

Carle Bonafous-Murat has been a Professor of Irish literature in the Department of Anglophone Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle since 2003. For two years, in 2008 and 2009, he ran a doctoral school in European studies, with a specific focus on English-speaking and German-speaking countries. From 2010 to 2014, he was in turn vice-president of the Board of Directors and vice-president of the Research Committee for Sorbonne Nouvelle. In 2014, he was elected President of the university, a position he held until 2018. Within the Sorbonne Paris Cité cluster, he coordinated the group of eight research vice-chairpeople, before being elected vice-president in charge of territorial coordination when SPC was awarded the Excellence Initiative label. Since 2019, he is the Senior Liaison Officer and Head of Office at France Universités in Brussels.

Kirill Chepurin is an Assistant Professor in the Program of Cultures, Civilizations, and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara. Previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at ICI Berlin Institute of Cultural Inquiry, he is a scholar of continental philosophy, religion, and philosophical and literary Romanticism, and the author of Bliss Against the World: Schelling, Theodicy, and the Crisis of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2024). His articles appear in Angelaki, CR: The New Centennial Review, European Romantic Review, The Journal of Religion, and other journals and edited volumes.

Luca Costa is a DPhil candidate in Italian at the University of Oxford, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies. His research redefines the history of existentialism by positioning Giacomo Leopardi as the initiator of atheistic existentialism. He is also working on the first anthology of Italian prose poetry. His work has appeared in journals such as Italian Studies, The Italianist, and Rivista Internazionale di Studi Leopardiani.

Brenna Courtney is a first-year Ph.D. student in English at Yale University studying poetry, poetics, and reception. In 2024, she adapted part of her undergraduate thesis into a paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the International T. S. Eliot Society, “T. S. Eliot’s Marianne Moore’s ‘Restraint,’” for which she received the Fathman Young Scholar Award; a version of this paper is forthcoming in The T. S. Eliot Studies Annual. The other part of her thesis, adapted into an article, is forthcoming in Arizona Quarterly as “The Indexed Irreducibility of Marianne Moore’s Observations.”

Ellen Dillon is a poet and teacher from Limerick, Ireland. She was shortlisted for the 2024 Prototype Prize for artists and writers working at the intersections of different literary and artistic forms, and was Arts Council of Ireland Writer in Residence at University College Cork in 2025. She has published books on the life and work of Fernand Deligny, the history of butter in Ireland, Stephen Malkmus’s guitar, Stéphane Mallarmé’s teaching career, and the ghost of Townes Van Zandt.

Adrien Fischer is a Ph.D. candidate in Renaissance Italian literature, pursuing a joint degree at Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris) and Sapienza University (Rome). He has translated several works from Italian and English into French, including Caosmogonia by Nanni Balestrini. He also participates in the INCH conferences, organized by the University of Notre Dame and Princeton University.

Nora Furlong is a MPhil student at the University of Oxford, in the Slavonic Studies division of the Modern and Medieval Languages department. As an undergraduate, she double majored in Comparative Literature and Russian and Eurasian Studies at Bard College. Working as a writer, researcher, and translator between French, Italian, Russian, and Polish, Nora concentrates on exilic literature, autofictional documents, Soviet cinema, and the temporal parameters of mémoire involontaire.

Johannes Göransson is the author of ten books of poetry and criticism—including The New Quarantine (2023) and Summer (2022)—and is the translator of several books of poetry, including works by Aase Berg, Eva Kristina Olsson, Ann Jäderlund, Helena Boberg, and Kim Yideum. His poems, translations, and critical writings have appeared in a wide array of journals in the US and abroad, including Fence, Lana Turner, Poetry, Spoon River Review, Modern Poetry in Translation (UK), Kritiker (Denmark), and Lyrikvännen (Sweden). His is a professor in the English Department at the University of Notre Dame and—together with Joyelle McSweeney, Paul Cunningham, and Katherine Hedeen—edits Action Books.

Charles Gough is a postdoctoral researcher at l'Université Sorbonne, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. He is currently revising and expanding his doctoral project into a monograph that is provisionally titled Queer Sexualities and the Soul in Fin-de-siècle Poetry. More broadly, Charles specialises in queer nineteenth-century literature, with a particular interest in poetry and poetics, life writing, and sexology. He previously studied at the University of Birmingham and the University of Oxford.

Nam Huh is a UK-based curator and researcher working at the intersection of media art, diasporic identity, and postcolonial theory. Their practice explores experimental and community-driven forms of storytelling, often involving immersive technologies, sound, and socially engaged processes. They have curated exhibitions and events across the UK, South Korea, and Europe and are currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Communications and Media, focusing on experimental documentary films. Recent projects focus on the representation of queer and East/Southeast Asian migrant experiences through post-internet documentary and digital ecologies.

Christos Kalli, born and raised in Cyprus, is a poet, poetry critic, and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania (and, for Spring 2025, an Ivy+ Exchange Scholar at Columbia). His critical writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, and World Literature Today. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, poets.org, Ninth Letter, Adroit Journal, National Poetry Review, American Journal of Poetry, Faultline, and minnesota review. Recently, he was awarded the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

Jill Keegan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame with minors in Gender Studies and Peace Studies. She received her B.S. in English and biology from Boston College. Her research focuses on representations of subjectivity and interiority in twentieth- and twenty-first-century American poetry, with particular interests in lyric theory, spatial criticism, and feminist phenomenology. She is also a prose and poetry editorial assistant for the Notre Dame Review.

Jahan Khajavi is a poet based in Rome. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, he holds a B.A. in Art History and an MFA in poetry. In addition to his own works, including Feast of the Ass (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023), he has published a translation of Sandro Penna’s poems, Sleepless Traveler (2023). With Adrien Fischer, he has collaborated on a trilingual edition of the works of the 15th-century Florentine poet Burchiello, set to be published in the fall by Editions la Tempête. Their translations of Burchiello’s sonnets render his work in rhyming, metrically regular verses.

Matthew Kilbane is the author of The Lyre Book: Modern Poetic Media (Johns Hopkins UP, 2024) and the editor of Expressive Networks: Poetry and Platform Cultures (Amherst College Press, 2025). His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in PMLA, English Literary History, Modern Language Quarterly, American Literature, and elsewhere, and his research has been supported by the Newberry Library, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment of the Humanities, and the Library of Congress. He is currently the Glynn Family Honors Assistant Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame.

Abigail Lang is a Professor of American literature at the Université Paris Cité. She is the author, with Thalia Field, of A Prank of Georges (2010) and Leave to Remain: Legends of Janus (2019). She is the translator of some twenty books of English-language poetry into French and, with Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, is the coordinator of the Double Change collective and the Poets & Critics research group. She is one of the founders of the collective project Archives sonores de poésie, which aims to inventory, archive, disseminate, and promote the audio and audiovisual collections of French-language poetry. Abigail Lang runs, with Dominique Pasqualini, the Motion Method Memory series at Les presses du réel.

Sean Moreland is a long-term-appointment professor in the English Department at the University of Ottawa. Their essays, primarily focused on Gothic, horror, and weird fiction in its literary, cinematic, and sequential art guises, have most recently appeared in Horror Literature Through History, The Oxford Handbook of Edgar Allan Poe, Making and Unmaking Ancient Memory, The Edgar Allan Poe Review, and the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Edgar Allan Poe. They have edited volumes including The Lovecraftian Poe: Essays on Influence, Reception, Interpretation and Transformation (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and New Directions in Supernatural Horror: The Critical Legacy of H.P. Lovecraft (Palgrave, 2018) and co-edited a special feature on Poe and nineteenth-century science for the journal Poe Studies (2024).