Participants and Topics

Keynote: Sophie Hannah (Title TBC)

 

Panel 1: Twisting the Genre

Marta Zago 

Rhyme and Reason: Nursery Rhymes as Deception Tools

Stuart Barnett (Central Connecticut State University)

The Fiction of Genre: From Politics to Ethics in Agatha Christie

Meg Boulton

'Hidden Secrets': Archaeology and Deductive Processes in Agatha Chrisite's Poirot

 

Panel 2: Clues

Mia Dormer (University of Exeter)

Forensic Science in The Hollow

Michelle M. Kazmer (Florida State University)

'Yet Something Pipeth Like a Bird': Information Behaviour, With No Actor?

Chrissie Poulter (Trinity College, Dublin)

Agatha Christie Swept Under Her Carpet: Domestic Detail and TV Adaptation

 

Panel 3: Gender

Merja Makinen (Middlesex University)

Hidden in Full View: Mary Westmacott's Critique of Gender

Alan Hooker (Univeristy of Exeter)

'Just Sly, Quiet Old Women': Witches and the Supernatural in Agtha Christie

Rebecca Mills (University of Exeter)

'Son of the Morning': Gender and Beauty in Agatha Christie's Poetics of Evil

 

Keynote: Gill Plain (Title TBC)

 

Panel 4: Re/vision

Ahmet Atay (College of Wooster)

Walking Through Poirot's London: Reimagining Mediated Texts through Ethnographic Explorations

Brigitta Hudácskó (University of Debrecen)

Inventing History: Agatha Christie and Katalin Baráth's Middlebrow Series

Trisha Ray 

Body on a Steam-Launch: A Poirot Pastiche

 

Keynote: John Curran Endless Night: A Flawed Masterpiece

 

Panel 5: Screen and Culture

Mark Aldridge (Southampton Solent University)

Agatha Christie's Early Adventures at the BBC

Marjolijn Storm (Saarbrûcken University)

Agatha Christie and the Mega-Polysystem of Detective Fiction: The German Films Die Abenteuer G.m.b.H. (1929) and Orientexpress (1944)

Sarah Street (University of Bristol)

Heritage Crime: The Case of Agatha Christie

 

Panel 6: Rethinking Agatha Christie

Anna Farthing (International Agatha Christie Festival)

Agatha Christie: life, literature and legacy.  Curating the International Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay on the 125th Anniversary of her Birth.

Carly Mays (National Trust at Greenway House)

A Closer Look at Greenway