Subhayu BHATTACHARJEE – Mirik College, Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
“All That Is Solid Melts into Air”: Abstraction as Empowerment for the Migrant Mind in the Poetry of Warsan Shire

Amrita DASGUPTA & Tathagata DUTTA – School of Oriental and African Studies, U.K / Tufts University, U.S.A.
Amitav Ghosh and the ‘Pizza-Effect’: Re-discovering Shared Littoral Literature and Heritage

Alexandra Maria IVAN – University of Bucharest
The Strain of Language in China Miéville’s Embassytown: between Multiculturalism, Oppression, and the Alien Society

Elidio LA TORRE LAGARES – University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Hyperglossia in Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights

Cornelia VLAICU – Independent scholar
A “Present-Tense People”: (Re-) Writing the Native in Tommy Orange’s There There

Mia-Louise NEL & Karen FERREIRA-MEYERS – North-West University, South Africa / University of Eswatini, South Africa
Decolonizing the ‘French as a Foreign Language’ University Curriculum through Literature, Interpretation from a South(ern) African Perspective

José DUARTE & Ana Rita MARTINS – Ulisboa (University of Lisbon)/ULICES
“I don’t want him in my heart. I want him here with me”: On Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie (2012)

Jaime SEGURA SAN MIGUEL – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
An Outcast’s Identity Is No Joke: the Myth of Sisyphus in Joker

Jennifer STERN – University of Arizona
Gender, Genre, and Thematic Expectation in Logan Thomas’ The Yellow Wallpaper: How Filmmakers Can Use Palimpsest Against the Audience