11-11.30: Arrival and Coffee

11.30-1: Session One (x2 presentations)

Minna Vuohelainen: ‘Few authors had a wider public than Mr Richard Marsh’: Richard Marsh, the Strand Magazine and the serial short story

Julian Wolfreys: 'Come Again? Richard Marsh between Babylon and the New Jerusalem or, Messianic London'

1-2pm: Lunch

2-3.30: Session Two (x3 presentations)

Jessica Allsop: Curious Collectables in the Fin de Siècle Fiction of Richard Marsh

Daniel Orrells: 'Philip Bennion's Death: The Renaissance, Curiosity and the Aesthetics of Criminality'

Sara Lenaghan: Unstable Stereotypes and Unusual Couplings: Male Characters in Marsh’s Fiction

3.30-4pm: Coffee

4-5pm: Session Three (x2 presentations)

Vicky Margree: Title TBA

Graeme Pedlingham: Richard Marsh’s The Beetle and the ‘Transformational Object’

5-6pm: Plenary Session