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