Professor Brian Richardson News
August 12, 2022
Recent works and updates.
Professor Brian Richardson gave two invited lectures this summer: “Between Probability and Impossibility: The Curious Nature of Multiversion Narratives,” Shanghai Jiao Tong University, May 18, 2022 (online) and “The Use and Abuse of the Act of Reading in Contemporary Fiction,” University of Tübingen, July 6, 2022.
He presented papers at three conferences in June: “Endlessnessnessness: Deferrals of Closure throughout Ulysses,” International James Joyce Symposium, Dublin; “Sense Perception and Synesthaesia in Conrad’s Fiction,” VII International Conrad Conference, Marie Curie/Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland; and “Towards a Poetics of Multiversion Narrtives,” International Narrative Conference, Chichester, UK.
He taught two classes at the University of Tübingen: “Postclassical Narrative Theory and Postmodern Fiction” and “Reading, Sex, and Catastrophe in Modern Fiction."
He served as a reviewer for a set of five essays for the volume, Figures of Chance: Imagining Chance and Contingency in the West, ALEA in June; he also was an evaluator of the Comparative Literature Doctoral Program based in the University of Lisbon, also in June.
His article, “The Use and Abuse of Narrative in Conrad’s Fiction,” appears in the next issue of The Conradian and his review of Digital Fiction and the Unnatural by Astrid Ensslin and Alice Bell appears in the next issue of Poetics Today. His book, A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019), will be re-issued in paperback in September.