April Conference is a triennial international conference which has been organized by the Institute of English Studies at the Jagiellonian University since 1978. The conference is an opportunity to bring together scholars working in various fields of English and American studies.

In the forthcoming edition of the conference the usual General Sessions on British and American Literature, General and Applied Linguistics, Translation and Cultural Studies, and Teaching of English as a Foreign Language will be accompanied by a selection of Thematic Sessions on a number of specific subjects, such as:

• James Joyce
• Medievalism in Literature
• New Perspectives on the American South
• Variation, Variety, Variable – Facets of English in the Contemporary World
• Stylistics of Mulitmodality/Intermedial Texts and Discourses (Artistic and Applied)
• Teaching English in Academia
• Stance and Evaluation in Discourse
• Digital Humanities
• Audiovisual Translation
• The Contemporary Historical Novel

The plenary speakers will include Robert H. Brinkmeyer Jr., Anne Fogarty, Hartmut Haberland, Jonathan Hope, Carolyne Larrington, and Adriaan Neele.

For more information, visit the conference website.