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Princess Margaret Memorial Garden. Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford

Her Majesty The Queen has officially opened a garden in memory of Princess Margaret at the University of Oxford’s Rothermere American Institute during her visit to Oxford on 5 May 2006

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION

Registration for the conference can be found here
NOTE: EDIS will not provide refunds for conference cancellations that take place after July 15, 2010.

CONFERENCE HOUSING

Housing for the conference will be at Keble College.
To reserve rooms at Keble, contact www.oxfordrooms.co.uk, quoting the promotion code EDIS2010.

GETTING TO OXFORD

By Air 
The closest international airport to Oxford is Heathrow. Heathrow is about an 80 minute coach drive from the city center. The coach leaves Heathrow’s central coach station (which serves terminals 1,2 and 3) and Heathrow’s terminal 5 station, approximately every 30 or 60 minutes. When in Oxford, the coach makes a number of local stops before terminating at Oxford’s central bus station, Gloucester Green. A return ticket costs £25. More information here: http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=24 

Gatwick Airport is about 2.5 hours away by direct coach service. Gatwick is served by regular coaches from both its terminals every hour or so. When in Oxford, the coach makes a number of local stops before terminating at Oxford’s central bus station, Gloucester Green. A return ticket costs £35. More information here: http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=25  

Luton airport has a less regular coach service, providing only 4 or 5 direct buses a day, despite being less than two hours away. A return tickets costs £21. Check out www.nationalexpress.com for more details.  

Stansted airport is the furthest away, taking the coach at least 3.5 hours to reach the center of Oxford. It has 8 direct buses a day, costing £30 for a return ticket. Check out www.nationalexpress.com for more details.  

By train 
Oxford’s train station is a 10 minute walk from the city center, and is well served by buses and taxis. It is well connected to most of the UK, with direct trains to London Paddington almost every hour, taking only 55 minutes. Ticket prices vary depending on the time of day and demand. A standard return ticket to London will cost around £25. It is recommended though that you book your tickets in advance. http://www.thetrainline.com/ provides good prices, while www.nationalrail.com provides more general information.  

The Oxford Tube and Oxford Espress 
These two coach services ( http://www.oxfordtube.com/ and http://www.oxfordbus.co.uk/main.php?page_id=27) provide buses to and from London every 15 minutes. They stop in a number of places in both Oxford and London and cost £16 for a day return.  

By car 
Oxford’s parking availability is notoriously bad, while the roads are predominantly bus- and bicycle- friendly. We don’t recommend that you rent a car during your time here unless your accommodation can offer a reasonably-priced parking space for you.

SPECIAL EVENTS

Reception and Banquet:
Friday August 6th, reception and banquet at the Oriel College main dining hall. Oriel College was founded in 1436 and its dining hall manifests the best characteristics of architecture and college dining during the late Medieval period.
 
Saturday August 7th, reception at Blackwell Bookshop, across from the Bodleian Library

Theater Production:  
"Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal," a widely acclaimed one-woman play about writing, acting and getting into Emily Dickinson's dress. Devised by Jack Lynch and Edie Campbell, directed by Jack Lynch, performed by Edie Campbell, LynchPin Productions Theatre Company. Tickets for this production may be purchased in advance on the registration site.

The Burton Taylor Studio (Gloucester Street)
Wedsnday Aug 4th, 8:00 pm
Thursday Aug 5th, 8:00 pm
Saturday Aug 7th, 8:00 pm
Sunday Aug 8, 2:30 pm

"Possession" and "Emily Dickinson & I", represent two of the most significant creative responses to Dickinson within England in recent years.
****Dr Maria Stuart, "The International Reception of Emily Dickinson"

A production of rare integrity, neither puffing up nor romanticising a literary figure that impresarios and academics might have thought they owned.
**** Critic's Choice, The Scotsman

Precise, intelligent and passionate . . . both performer and audience come as close to the soul of the poet as we probably ever will.
**** Edmonton Sun, Canada

For more reviews and Margaret Drabble's forward to the published text, see www.lynchpinptc.co.uk

Art Work:
 Premier exhibition of art work by contemporary British artists Suzie Hanna and Stella Vine, responding to Dickinson's poetry and life.

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Lyndall Gordon, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University
“The World Within": Emily Dickinson and the Brontes” [see bio below] 

Paul Giles, Oxford University/University of Sydney
"Evolutionary Enigmas and Colonial Equations: Dickinson’s Transoceanic Geography.” [see bio below] 

PLENARY PANELS

#1:  Domhnall Mitchell Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Paraic Finnerty University of Portsmouth, Maria Stuart University College, Dublin

#2: Sally Bushell Lancaster University, Vivian Pollak Washington University, Jed Deppman Oberlin College

LYNDALL GORDON grew up in Cape Town, came to England through the Rhodes Trust, and was a tutor and lecturer in English at Oxford where she is now Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College. Lyndall is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and member of PEN. Her biographies include Eliot's Early Years (1977) (awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay prize by the British Academy); a sequel, Eliot's New Life, was published at the time of the poet’s centenary (1988). The two books were rewritten as one, T.S.Eliot: An Imperfect Life (1999), with new material collected over twenty years. Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life won the James Tait Black Memorial prize for biography (1984), and Virago recently brought out a revised edition. Charlotte Brontë: A Passionate Life (1994), winner of the Cheltenham prize for literature was reissued in 2008.  A memoir of three women who died young, Shared Lives (1992), is about women's friendship going back to schooldays in the Cape Town of the fifties. The last book was Vindication: A Life of Mary Wollstonecraft (2005). Lyndall is now approaching Emily Dickinson by way of the Dickinson feud. The feud exploded over adultery, but came to focus on the poet. Rival camps claimed her legend over the course of three generations. The book is provisionally entitled “Lives Like Loaded Guns” and will be published by Virago in London, and by Penguin in New York, 2009.

PAUL GILES is Challis Professor of English at the University of Sydney. Formerly, he was Director of the Rothermere American Institute (RAI) at Oxford University, 2003-2008. His books include: The Global Remapping of American Literature (forthcoming, Princeton UP, January 2011); Transnationalism in Practice: Essays on American Studies, Literature and Religion. (Edinburgh UP, 2010); .Atlantic Republic: The American Tradition in English Literature  (Oxford University Press, 2006); Virtual Americas: Transnational Fictions and the Transatlantic Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2002); Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001); American Catholic Arts and Fictions: Culture, Ideology, Aesthetics (Cambridge University Press, 1992); and Hart Crane : The Contexts of "The Bridge" (Cambridge University Press, 1986).

VIVIAN POLLAK is Professor at Washington University, St. Louis. She is the author of Dickinson: The Anxiety of Gender (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1984) and The Erotic Whitman (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000) and has edited A Poet's Parents: The Courtship Letters of Emily Norcross and Edward Dickinson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988); New Essays on "Daisy Miller" and "The Turn of the Screw (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993); and A Historical Guide to Emily Dickinson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004).

JED DEPPMAN is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of Comparative Literature at Oberlin College. He is the author of Trying to Think with Emily Dickinson (University of Massachusetts Press, 20008) and co-editor of Genetic Criticism: Texts and Avant-textes (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004).

DOMHNALL MITCHELL is Professor of English at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is author of Emily Dickinson: Monarch of Perception (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000) and Measures of Possibility: Emily Dickinson's Manuscripts (University of Massachusetts Press, 2005). His volume International Reception of Emily Dickinson co-edited with MARIA STUART is forthcoming in 2009 with Continuum International Publishing.

PARAIC FINNERTY is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare (University of Massachusetts Press, 2006) and is currently working on a book-length project to be titled "The Object of their Affection: The Englishman in America," examining the representation of the Englishman in American culture and how he functions in constructions of American masculinity.

MARIA STUART is College Lecturer at University College, Dublin. Her volume International Reception of Emily Dickinson co-edited with Domhnall Mitchell is forthcoming in 2009 with Continuum International Publishing. She is currently working on a book on Emily Dickinson and biblical interpretation: “Contesting the Word: Emily Dickinson and the Higher Critics.” She is also interested in crime fiction, and is working on a comparative study of American and British crime writing (with particular attention to factors such as race, nationality and gender).

SALLY BUSHELL has a BA from Royal Holloway College, London University, an MA from the University of York and a doctorate from Queens' College, Cambridge. She is also a fully qualified English teacher having spent three years between MA and Ph.D teaching in a secondary school. She is director of graduate studies and co-director of The Wordsworth Centre at Lancaster and teaches mainly Romantic and Victorian literature. Dr Bushell has just completed a second critical book entitled Text as Process: Exploring Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson and Emily Dickinson currently in press with the University Press of Virginia (2008).

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