About the Series

Gylphi Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays presents a new approach to the academic study of living authors. The titles in this series are devoted to contemporary British, Irish and American authors whose work is popularly and critically valued but on whom a significant body of academic work has yet to be established. Each of the titles in this series is developed out of the best contributions to an international conference on its author; represents the most intelligent and provocative material in current thinking about that author’s work; and suggests future avenues of thought, comparison and analysis. With each title prefaced by an author foreword, this series embraces the challenges of writing on living authors and provides the foundation stones for future critical work on significant contemporary writers.

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Sarah Dillon is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Fiction in the School of English at the University of St Andrews, UK. She is the author of The Palimpsest: Literature, Criticism, Theory (2007) and editor of David Mitchell: Critical Essays (2011). Sarah has published articles and chapters on a range of writers including Jacques Derrida, Elizabeth Bowen, H.D., Maggie Gee, David Mitchell and Michel Faber. She is co-investigator on the RSE funded What Scientists Read project.

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Conferences

Maggie Gee Conference

Conference Organizers: Sarah Dillon and Caroline Edwards University of St Andrews, 30–31 August 2012

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Weird Council: an international conference on the writing of China Miéville

Conference Organizers: Dr Caroline Edwards and Tony Venezia
Senate House, University of London, 15 September 2012
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Patricia Duncker Conference

Conference Organizers: Ben Davies and Jana Funke University of St Andrews, 7–8 December 2012

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Past Conferences

'Calling All Agents: A symposium on the work of Tom McCarthy'

Conference Organizer: Dennis Duncan
Birkbeck College, University of London, 22–23 July 2011
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Publications

David Mitchell: Critical Essays (April 2011; 272 pp.)

Edited by Sarah Dillon

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Contemporary Writers: Critical Essays