Schedule
DAY 1 – OCTOBER 15, 2026
9:30-9:40 a.m. CAFFÈ and INTRODUCTIONS
Introductions by Clíona Ní Ríordáin and Brandon Menke
Location: Notre Dame Rome, Matthew and Joyce Walsh Aula
9:40-11:00 a.m. PANEL 1: Rhythm, Genre, Mode
Abigail Lang (Université Paris Cité), “Sentences for Poetry: Some French and North American Practices”
Lacy Rumsey (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), "Segmentation and Form in Prose Poetry"
Virginie Trachsler (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Palimpsestic Prose Poems in Lyric Poetry Collections”
Location: Walsh Aula
11:00-11:10 a.m. CAFFÈ
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PANEL 2: Alternative Genealogies
Luca Costa (University of Oxford), “The Prose Poems of Giacomo Leopardi”
Sean Moreland (University of Ottawa), “Eureka!: Poe’s Scientific Burlesque, the Decadent Prose Poem, and the Scientific Romance”
Charles Gough (Université Sorbonne), “Forms of Resistance: The Queer Beginnings of the Nineteenth-Century Prose Poem”
Location: Walsh Aula
12:30-1:30 p.m. PRANZO
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
1:30-2:30 p.m. DIALOGO: You Go Rimbaud: On Translating Illuminations
Adrien Fischer (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / Università Sapienza di Roma)
Jahan Khajavi, author of Feast of the Ass
Location: Walsh Aula
2:30-3:50 p.m. PANEL 3: Lyric Reading and Its Discontents
Brenna Courtney (Yale University), “From Critical Excerpt to Prose Lyric: Notes on a Passage from Roger Ascham’s Toxophilus (1545)”
Brandon Rushton (University of Notre Dame), “Unending Beginnings: Afterlives of the Prose Poem as Proem”
Christos Kalli (University of Pennsylvania), “Myung Mi Kim’s Commons and the Paratextual Prose Poem”
Location: Walsh Aula
3:50-4:00 p.m. CAFFÈ
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
4:00-5:20 p.m. PANEL 4: Hibernospheric Exchanges
Carle Bonafous-Murat (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), “Beckett’s Footfalls: A Play Poem in Prose?”
Clíona Ní Ríordáin (University of Notre Dame), “Some Ríordá(i)ns and the Prose Poem"
Ellen Dillon, “Building New Ways to ‘Live on This Small Island’ in the Contemporary Irish Prose Poem”
Location: Walsh Aula
5:30-6:30 p.m. KEYNOTE
Will Schutt (John Cabot University)
Location: Walsh Aula
6:30 p.m. BANCHETTO
Location: Contrario Vineria con Cucina, Via Ostilia, 22
DAY 2 – OCTOBER 16, 2026
9:30-9:40 a.m. CAFFÈ
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
9:40-11:00 a.m. PANEL 5: Across Continents of Time
Nora Furlong (University of Oxford), “Petrarchan Architectures, Avant-Garde Ruptures: Reading Amelia Rosselli’s Document”
Jill Keegan (University of Notre Dame), “A Test of Endurance: Bernadette Mayer and Reverie in Long Time”
Wonbin Bae (University of Notre Dame), “The Lyric Present in History: Hybrid Temporality as Decolonial Poetics in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée”
Location: Walsh Aula
11:00-11:10 a.m. CAFFÈ
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
11:10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. PANEL 6: Hybrid Variations
Theo Barnett (University of Oxford), “The Human Document, the Prose Poem, and the Death of Art in Russian Émigré Literature of the 1930s”
Brandon Menke (University of Notre Dame), “Oranges, Image-Texts, and ‘Pan in Disguise’: Pastoral Pleasures in the Prose Poetry of Frank O’Hara and John Ashbery”
Matthew Kilbane (University of Notre Dame), “The Divine Mimesis: Cinema and Prose Poetry”
Location: Walsh Aula
12:30-1:30 p.m. PRANZO
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
1:30-2:30 p.m. DIALOGO: Render: Poetic Fictions and Fabulations
Billy Ramsell, author of Render
Clíona Ní Ríordáin (University of Notre Dame)
Location: Walsh Aula
2:30-3:50 p.m. PANEL 7: Rapture / Rupture
Anna Wilmore (University of Oxford), “Medieval Mysticism: Pushing the Boundaries of Form in the Flowing Light of the Godhead”
Kirill Chepurin (Bilkent University), “Writing at the Threshold: Forms of Divination and the Prose Poem in Georges Bataille”
Christophe Barnabé (University of Oxford), “Vicarious Witnessing and the Prose Poem in Rául Zurita’s INRI”
Location: Walsh Aula
3:50-4:00 p.m. CAFFÈ
Location: Magnolia Hospitality Area
4:00-5:20 p.m. PANEL 8: Contemporary Departures
Johannes Göransson (University of Notre Dame), “The Prose Poem in Translation”
Nam Huh (Loughborough University), “The Architecture of the Minor Archive: Prose Poetry as Institutional Mimicry in ESEA Documentary Poetics”
Location: Walsh Aula