METU British Novelists International Conference: “Daniel Defoe and His Work”
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 12-13 December 2019

The Department of Foreign Language Education at Middle East Technical University is pleased to announce the call for its 25^th British Novelists Conference, the theme of which is “Daniel Defoe and His Work.” The conference will be held on 12-13 December, 2019 in Ankara, Turkey.

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations on any aspect of Daniel Defoe’s work. Interdisciplinary and comparative approaches are also welcome. Please send abstracts of about 250 words to bnic2019@metu.edu.tr by 30 September 2019. Please include your name, institutional affiliation and contact information in your submission.

Keynote Speaker is Prof. John Richetti from University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Richetti’s books include: Popular Fiction Before Richardson: Narrative Patterns 1700-1739 (1969; 1992); Defoe's Narratives: Situations and Structures (1975); Daniel Defoe (1987); The English Novel in History, 1700-1780 (1999); and The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography (2005). He has edited The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel (1996); The Columbia History of the British Novel (1995), and The Cambridge Companion to Daniel Defoe (2008). He is the editor of the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of the New Cambridge History of English Literature (2005).  His most recent works are the eighteenth-century volume of the Wiley-Blackwell history of British literature, A History of Eighteenth-Century British Literature (2017) and his edition of the Cambridge Companion to Robinson Crusoe (2018).

Further information about the conference and its venue can be found at http://www.britishnovelists.metu.edu.tr

Queries can be directed to Assoc. Prof. Dr. Margaret J. M. Sönmez at margaret@metu.edu.tr.