Plenary Speakers

Scott W. Klein is a Professor of English and the Department Chair at Wake Forest University, USA. He is the author of The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: Monsters of Nature and Design (1994; 2006), and is the co-editor of Vorticism: New Perspectives (2013) and the editor of Wyndham Lewis's Tarr (2010). At present he is co-editing A Modernist Cinema for Oxford University Press, and is the Artistic Director of the Secrest Artists Series, the performing arts series at Wake Forest University.

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Christopher Norris is a Distinguished Research Professor in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Platonism, Music and the Listener's Share (2006), Re-Thinking the Cogito: Naturalism, Reason and the Venture of Thought (2010), Derrida, Badiou and the Formal Imperative (2012), and Philosophy Outside-In: A Critique of Academic Reason (2013). He also edited Music and the Politics of Culture (1988).

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Emma Sutton is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of Aubrey Beardsley and British Wagnerism in the 1890s (2002) and Virginia Woolf and Classical Music: Politics, Aesthetics, Form (2013). She is a co-editor of a special issue (2012) of the journal Forum for Modern Language Studies devoted to 'Opera and the Novel'.

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