Anglicists and Americanists Today. Facing Ideology and Its Discontents. Celebrating 100 Years of English and American Studies in Iasi. Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Iasi

We invite contributions on the following topics:

• English Studies today
• The impact of English as a lingua franca
• Linguistic theories: classical, modern and contemporary
• Literary Theory and Criticism
• Literary canons: re-configurations and debates
• Literary ages, trends and movements, and their aesthetics
• Translation as a linguistic and/or socio-cultural enterprise
• Transmedia and adaptation
• Convergence (of ideas, cultures, approaches)
• Discourse theory today
• TEFL theory and methodology
• Secrecy, ambiguity, vagueness, suggestive obscurity, différance, etc. in language,

culture and literature

Thematic panel streams:

This year, our conference will also offer the panel stream Flowers and Flappers

dedicated to the celebration of 100 years since the publication of two key modernist

novels: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.