Talks by the DERIVATE Project Team

Eva von Contzen, “Tell It Again: Retelling and Repetition in Medieval Literature.” St Andrews Institute of Mediaeval Studies (SAIMS). St Andrews, Parliament Hall. October, 2026.

Anna Opanasenko, “Revoicing’ Medieval Women: Critical Fabulation in Ruth Wiggins’s The Lost Book of Barkynge.” Anglistiktag. LMU Munich. September, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “Text/Textile: Reweaving Classical Myth on Stage.” Anglistiktag. LMU Munich. September, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “[T]hey never asked about the women: Violence, Care, and Dramatising the Trojan War Mythos.” LitCult Colloquium. University of Freiburg. July, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “Caring About/Caring With: Reparative Retelling and Contemporary Dramatisations of the Trojan War Mythos.” Research Seminar. Department of Classical Philology, University of Freiburg. July, 2026.

Anna Opanasenko, “Jesus, what shall I think about?: Female Agency in Contemporary Biofiction.” History Up For Debate: Literature, Storytelling and the Imagined Past. University of Salzburg. July, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “Trespassing: A Monologue.” Relieving Sorrow, Mitigating Distress in the Early Modern Anglophone World. Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry. June, 2026.

Eva von Contzen, “Telling Again, Anew, Against: Repetition and Literary History.” University of Frankfurt . June, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “Directing The War monologues: Retellings of Ovid’s Heroides.” Teaching with Ovid: An online pedagogy symposium with the International Ovidian Society and Societas Ovidiana. Online. June, 2026.

Matteo Schiavone, “What am I then?: Trans Negative Affects in John Keats’s The Fall of Hyperion.” Keats’s Circle. The Keats Foundation, Keats House and Museum. June, 2026.

Anna-Rose Shack, “Woven Together: Reparative Retelling in Contemporary Dramatisations of the Trojan War Mythos.” Textile Production and Representation: From Pre-to Postmodernity. Netherlands Institute, Athens. May, 2026.

Anna Opanasenko, “Intimate Histories: Feminist Reimaginings of Medieval Women in Contemporary Fiction.” Historical Fictions Research Network Conference. University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. February, 2026.

Anna Opanasenko, “Rewriting the Middle Ages: Feminist Engagements with the Medieval Past in Contemporary Literature.” LitCult Colloquium. University of Freiburg. January, 2026.

Anna Opanasenko, “Imagining the (Im)possible: Two Wives and the Feminist Potential of Medieval Retellings.” ANZAMEMS 2025. University of Melbourne. December, 2025.

Anna Opanasenko, “Rewriting Courtly Love: Chaucerian Retellings in Contemporary Anglophone Poetry.” Medievalism to Renaissance Seminar. University of Strasbourg. November, 2025.

Lucy Fleming, “The dirtiest story I know: Retelling Chaucerian Obscenity, Chrononormativity, and The Big Bang Theory.” Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism. Université de Lorraine. November, 2025.

Matteo Schiavone, “Queer Communities of Women Transcending Linear Time: Reading Felicia Hemans’s Records of Woman as a Retelling of Christine de Pizan’s La Cité des Dames.” Medievalisms in Time & Space. The International Society for the Study of Medievalism Annual Conference (online). November, 2025.

Philomena Wolf, “Experiments with Blank Spaces: Condensation and Expansion in Contemporary Retellings.” The Middle Ages in the Modern World. King’s College London. June, 2025.

Eva von Contzen, “Wi(e)dererzählen: Mittelalterrezeption und zeitgenössische Retellings.” Mediävalismus in der Mediävistik - Epochenschwellen 1900/2000. University of Kiel. May, 2025.

Eva von Contzen, “Rings of Power.” Prequels, Sequels, Spin-offs. Logics of Neomedieval Transmedia Storytelling. University of Oxford. April, 2025.

Philomena Wolf, “Retelling as Recycling? Premodern Cues and Questions of Sustainability.” Material Matters: Unveiling the Dynamics of Re-Use in Pre-Modern Texts, Images, and Carriers. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg. April, 2025.

Philomena Wolf, “Writing Home: Intertextual Returns and Revisitations of Space in Contemporary Retellings of Ancient Myths.” Versions of Home: Adapting – Rewriting – Referencing in the Arts. University of Graz. March, 2025.

Eva von Contzen, “Telling Again. Historical Narratology and Premodern Narratives.” Common Grounds: Towards a Medieval Comparative Literature. University of Würzburg. January, 2025.

Philomena Wolf, “A Literary Excavation: Retelling Premodern Literature in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction.” LitCult Colloquium. University of Freiburg. November, 2024.

Eva von Contzen, “I love originality so much I keep copying it: Wiederholung als Prinzip der Literatur.” University of Freiburg . October, 2024.

Eva von Contzen, “Andere Innovation: Zum Verhältnis von Wiedererzählen und Kanon zwischen Vormoderne und Gegenwart.” Kanonisierung und Revision. Historische Prozesse ästhetischer Autoritätsbildung. University of Tübingen. July, 2024.