Munich 2026 Call for Papers

Call for Papers

IAUPE Triennial Conference Munich 2026

20-24 July 2026, University of Munich, Germany

 The Triennial Conference of the International Association of University Professors of English (IAUPE) will take place at LMU Munich from 20 to 24 July 2026, with the Medieval Symposium on 20 July. IAUPE members are invited to send abstracts (max. 300 words) for proposed 20-minute papers, accompanied by a short biographical note, directly to the respective section chairs listed below.  Please reach out to individual section chairs regarding timelines.

Confirmed keynote speakers are Prof. Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), Prof. Raymond Hickey (University of Duisburg-Essen) and Korean-American poet and translator Don Mee Choi.

 The Medieval Symposium will take place at beautiful Kloster Seeon, about an hour’s drive from Munich, where participants will arrive on Sunday, 19 July, and spend two nights before being transferred back to Munich for the opening of the main conference. The conference venue is in the heart of the city of Munich, in the University’s main building at Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1.

The conference will close with a conference dinner at the Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten on Friday evening (24 July). There will be a half-day excursion to the Starnberger See and the Buchheim Museum on Saturday (25 July, 9 am to 4 pm).

IAUPE members are advised that this conference will not allow video’d presentations or online participation. Accompanying plus-ones will have register to attend sessions and plenaries. Registration will open in January 2026.

In exceptional circumstances, IAUPE may be able to assist scholars who find themselves in financial distress. Inquiries will be handled discreetly and should be addressed to the Secretary General for decision by the conference President.

 List of section chairs:

 Section 1. Old English Language and Literature

Chair: Daniel Anlezark (Sydney)   daniel.anlezark@sydney.edu.au

 Section 2. Middle English Language and Literature

Chair: Helen Fulton (Bristol) helen.fulton@bristol.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Jan Shaw (Sydney) jan.shaw@sydney.edu.au

 Section 3. Early Modern Literature

Chair: Richard McCabe (Oxford) richard.mccabe@merton.ox.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Helen Wilcox (Bangor) helen.wilcox@bangor.ac.uk

 Section 4. Shakespeare and his contemporary Dramatists

Chair: Grace Ioppolo (Reading) g.j.ioppolo@reading.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Krystyna Kujawińska-Courtney (Łódź) miranda@uni.lodz.pl

 Section 5. The Long Eighteenth Century

Chair: Dorothee Birke (Innsbruck)  Dorothee.birke@uibk.ac.at

Co-Chair: Peter Sabor (Montreal) peter.sabor@mcgill.ca

 Section 6. Romanticism

Chair: William Christie (Canberra)  William.christie@anu.edu.au

 Section 7. The Long Nineteenth Century

Chair: Regenia Gagnier (Exeter) r.gagnier@exeter.ac.uk

Co-Chair: Sambudha Sen (Shiv Nadar, India) sambudha.sen@snu.edu.in

 Section 8. Early American Literature

Chair: Jason Shaffer (USNA, Maryland) tshaffer@usna.edu

Co-Chair: Cassander ‘Cassie’ Smith (U of Alabama) clsmith17@ua.edu

 Section 9. American Literature after 1900

Chair: Aimee Pozorski (Central Connecticut State) pozorskia@ccsu.edu

Co-Chair: Enikő Maior (Partium Christian University, Oradea) enikomaior@partium.ro

 Section 10. Modern Literature

Chair: Youngmin Kim (Dongguk University, Seoul) yk4147@gmail.com

Co-Chair: Danuta Fjellestad (Uppsala University) danuta.fjellestad@engelska.uu.se

 Section 11. Literary Theory

Chair: Mark Byron (Sydney) mark.byron@sydney.edu.au

Section 12. Contemporary and Historical Language Studies 

Chair: Marina Dossena (Bergamo) marina.dossena@unibg.it

Co-Chair: Jeremy Smith (Glasgow) jeremy.smith@glasgow.ac.uk

Section 13. Digital Humanities, Editing and Bibliography 

Chair: William Kretzschmar (U of Georgia) kretzsch@uga.edu

Co-Chair: Ray Siemens (U of Victoria) siemens@uvic.ca

 Section 14. Contemporary Irish Literature

Chair: Georgina Nugent (University College Cork) georginanugent@ucc.ie

 Section 15. Contemporary Literatures in English

Chair: Liliana Sikorska (Poznań) sliliana@amu.edu.pl

Co-Chair: Susana Onega (Zaragoza) sonega@unizar.es

 Medieval Symposium

Chair: Lawrence Warner (King’s College London) Lawrence.warner@kcl.ac.uk

 Forum: Transnational Varieties of English Studies

Chair: Regenia Gagnier (Exeter) r.gagnier@exeter.ac.uk