The purpose of the conference is to examine trends and developments as well as production and dissemination of British and American literature within a framework which tests the possibilities and problems of nation-centred and transnational approaches to literary studies. This conference should appeal to scholars and postgraduate students whose work focuses on transatlantic literary exchange in the long eighteenth century, as well as scholars and postgraduates who have an interest in establishing dialogue with specialists working in similar fields on the opposite side of the Atlantic.

Keynote Speakers
Professor Elizabeth Fay
Director, Research Center for Urban Cultural History, UMass Boston
and
Dr Leonard von Morzé
Associate Professor of English, UMass Boston

Possible topics of interest could include but are not limited to:
· Theatre and adaptation
· Travel writing and the natural world
· Medicine and Science
· The novel
· Book history
· Production of texts, editions and censorship
· New markets: physical export and dissemination
· Copyright and Pirating
· Periodicals
· Gender
· Slave & Captivity Narratives
· Religion 

Please send a 300-word proposal to kathryn.gray@plymouth.ac.uk by May 1st.

If you have any queries, please contact Dr Kathryn Gray or Dr Annika Bautz, annika.bautz@plymouth.ac.uk.