PART 1: HISTORICAL NOVEL
Carolyne Larrington - George Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, HBO’s Game of Thrones and (Neo)Medievalism
Ib Johansen - Narrative Cross-currents and Textual Crossfires
Petr Chalupský - The (In)authenticity of Invented History in Graeme Macrae Burnet’s His Bloody Project
Kinga Latała - Modern Representations of War-time Executions in William Brodrick’s A Whispered Name and John Boyne’s The Absolutist
Marek Pawlicki - “The Fable Splits at the Seams”: An Exploration of Imagination and Myth in William Golding’s The Scorpion God
Barbara Klonowska - From Trauma to Love, from Experiment to Tradition: Contemporary British Historical Romances and Historiography
Rachael Sumner - Historical Vanishing Points in Hilary Mantel’s Novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
Beata Kiersnowska - New Sporting Woman – A New Ideal of Womanhood in Late Victorian England?

PART 2: AMERICAN SOUTH
Robert H. Brinkmeyer - W.J. Cash and Hitler: The Mind of the South and the European Crisis
Anna Łozińska - The True and the Degenerate – Images of Native Americans and the Natural Environment in William Faulkner’s Short Stories
Todd Hagstette - Honor, Religion, and Domesticity: New Perspectives on Southern Dueling in Augusta Jane Evans’s St. Elmo
Katarzyna Jasiewicz - The Old South and a New Meaning: Kate Chopin’s Stories vs. Patricia Yaeger’s Dirt and Desire
Szymon Wnuk - Through the Ruins of an Orchard: Fertility Myth in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road

PART 3: GENERAL AMERICAN STUDIES
Grzegorz Kotecki - “Deafened by the Roar of Its Own History”: Communal Remembering and Collective Forgetting in Toni Morrison’s Paradise
Tadeusz Lewandowski - Zitkála-Šá’s Old Indian Legends: A New Perspective
Richard Thomas Savino - The ‘Other’ in Deliver Us from Evil
Joanna Durczak - Contrary Farmers and the Literature of Agri/cultural Resistance
Joanna Antoniak - Different Images of Father in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Fiction
Anna Białkowska - “Lee and the Boys” – A Queer Look at William S. Burroughs
Zygmunt Mazur - Inhabiting the Moment in Time: W.S. Merwin’s The Shadow of Sirius
Anna Svĕtlíková - Jonathan Edwards, John Dennis, and the Religious Sublime: A Consideration of Edwardsean Terror

PART 4: BRITISH PROSE
Anna Bugajska - The Anxiety of the Lion Influence: The Place of the Lion and Narnia
Sabina Sosin - Challenging the Codex = Challenging the Reader? Motivations behind B.S. Johnson’s Aesthetical Choices in The Unfortunates
Olga Glebova - Doris Lessing and J.M. Coetzee in the Context of Contemporary Celebrity Culture

PART 5: DRAMA
Tomasz Więcek - The Conflict between Ecclesiastical Courts and the Royal Justice in the Late Medieval Passion Plays
Rowland Cotterill - “New Heaven, New Earth”: Some Promised Ends and Brave New Worlds of Shakespearian Theatre
Jurgita Astrauskienė - Repartee and Quip as Modes of Literary Wit in John Webster’s drama The Duchess of Malfi
Philipp Reisner - Performing Theology: David Adjmi’s Satirical Tragedies

PART 6: MULTIMODALITY
Mariano D’Ambrosio - Dynamic Patterns in Contemporary Multimodal Printed Novels: The Exploration, the Quest, the Journey, the Encounter
Ioana Zirra - Digital Tracing of the “Parallactic Drift of the Socalled Fixed Stars” in James Joyce’s Ulysses