New Genre Army
In April 2013, my PhD student Chris Callow and I co-organised a conference dedicated to SF writer and academic Adam Roberts titled "New Genre Army: An International Conference on the Writing of Adam Roberts."
The conference is part of the Gylphi "Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays" series and selected papers will be published in Adam Roberts: Critical Essays, ed. Caroline Edwards and Christos Callow Jr. (Canterbury: Gylphi, 2015). The conference was held at the University of Lincoln on 5th April 2013 – for the call for papers see here: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=198687.
Click here to view the conference programme.
Damien Walter wrote a column for the Guardian shortly before the conference, which discussed Roberts' importance as a contemporary SF writer as well as the "New Genre Army" network. You can read the article on the Guardian website. Meanwhile, SFX Magazine wrote a short article about the conference and Chris Callow published an interview with Adam Roberts for Strange Horizons prior to the conference.
A podcast recorded by Lincoln's Siren FM containing interviews with Professor Farah Mendlesohn, Professor Edward James, Adam Roberts, Damien Walter and myself can be found on this soundcloud upload.
Dr Caroline Edwards is Senior Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. Her research and teaching specialisms are in 21st century literature and critical theory, science fiction and post-apocalyptic narratives, Marxist aesthetics, and utopianism.
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