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1.	BANERJEE, Anindita	Cornell University	Higher Narrative Under Fire: Epic in Contemporary Indian Media
2.	BLOK, Rasmus	University of Aarhus	The State of Narrative in Computational Settings - How can the multi linear digital literature be read?
3.	BUCHENBERGER, Stefan	Nara Women’s University	“Japan in American Comics: A Study of Japanese Influences in American Mainstream Comic Books and their Superheroes”
4.	CAO, Shunqing	Sichuan University	Cross-Culture: A New Change and Breakthrough of Comparative Literature
5.	CHENG, Miu Bing Christina	The University of Hong Kong	Matriarchy at the Edge : The Mythic Cult of Nu Wa 女媧 in Macau
6.	CLAVARON, Yves	Université de Saint-Etienne	“Marges et frontières dans la littérature coloniale”
7.	DAI, Xun	Southwest Normal University	Translingual Travel: The Discourse Practice of Cultural Hegemony
8.	DONAT, Sebastian	Ludwig-Maximilians-University	Absurd Literature: Exploring Limits
9.	DORSEY, John T.	Rikkyo University	Angelic Apparitions on Stage and Screen
10.	DUARTE, João Ferreira	University of Lisbon	What is it that Saramago is doing in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ? Rewriting the Gospels into Genre
11.	EL-NOWIEEMY, Magda	Alexandria University	Supranational Utopia: Virgil's Arcadia
12.	FARIA, Gentil	Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)	The Impossibility of Love in Percy Shelley and Machado de Assis
13.	FERNANDES, Ana Raquel	Universidade de Lisboa	Moulding Identity: Aesthetics and Society in Joyce Cary
14.	GRÜNING, Hans-Georg	University of Macerata	Sur «le bout de la langue»: la recherche identitaire à travers la langue dans la littérature contemporaine sud-tyrolienne
15.	GUIYOBA, François	ENS de Yaoundé (CAMEROUN)	L'Imagologie Africaine en Occident
16.	HAN, Jiaming	Peking University	Beyond Ideology and Utopia
17.	HENITIUK, Valerie	University of Alberta	Embodying the Boundary: The Gendered Motif of Existential Liminality in Murasaki Shikibu and Marie de France
18.	HEYNDERS, Odile	Tilburg University	The transforming eye - Joseph Brodsky, Cees Nooteboom and Maurice Merleau-Ponty
19.	HILMES, Carola	Johann-Wolfgang- Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main	“Other Spaces”: Rethinking the alternative concepts of space in the novels of Kubin, Kasack and Jahnn
20.	HOSILLOS, Lucila V.	Ilonggo Language and Literature Foundation	Literature and Comparative Literature as Reflexive Refraction
21.	JANASZEK-IVANIčková, Halina	Silesia University	The Shock of Rampant Post- Communist Capitalism : The Theme of Transformation in Slav Literature after 1989
22.	JENG, Adela	National Taiwan University	The Soul as Second Self before Plato (Also available on http://www.ea.sinica.edu.tw/lib/eea-index.html)
23.	KO, Chung-man Cynthia	The Chinese University of Hong Kong	The Spaces of Solitude: the Concept of Linguistic Homeland in Beidao’s Exile Poetry
24.	KOIKE, Rie	Fuji-Tokoha University	“Creole Pasts, Mauritian Futures: a Role of Dev Virahsawmy in Making a Mother Tongue of Mauritius”
25.	KOMAR, Kathleen L.	UCLA	“The House of Atreus in Cyberspace: Gender Battles Revisited on the World Wide Web”
26.	KOPPER, John M.	Dartmouth College	Multiple Sadnesses: Osip Mandelstam’s and Ovid’s Tristia and the Critic’s Dilemma in Approaching a Literature of Disengagement
27.	LIU, Ying	Sichuan University	Translingual Commensurability and Reciprocal Translatability -- Foreign Terms and Their Cultural Nuances in the Chinese Context
28.	LOBO, Luiza	Federal University of Rio de Janeiro	The Philosophy of Richard Rorty and the Fate of Latin America in the field of literature and culture
29.	MASE, Reiko	Université Chikushi− Jogakuen	La pensée utopique de Gérard de Nerval
30.	MATSUOKA, Naomi	Nihon University	Kazuo Ishiguro and Shanghai: Orphans in the Foreign Enclave
31.	MAURER, Karl	Ruhr-Universität Bochum	The Invisible Hand. Death of the Textual Variant in the Electronic Age?
32.	MERKLE, Denise	Université de Moncton	External and Internal Pressures on the Translator: Relationship to censorship
33.	MIYAGAWA, Akiko		Histoire et utopie dans le roman occidental à la fin du XIXe siècle et au début du XXe siècle ― Bellamy, Zola, France ―
34.	OHASHI, Eri	Oita Prefectural College of Arts and Culture	Deux Salomés : l’utopie chez Flaubert et chez Wilde
35.	PETTERSSON, Anders	Umea University	Describing Other Literary Cultures
36.	PETTERSSON, Anders	Umea University	Literary history and the concept of literature
37.	QU, Shijing		Post-colonial Novelist: V.S. Naipaul, Floater - A Freeman, A world Citizen
38.	REIS, José Eduardo	University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD), University of Oporto	Millenarian Utopia: Antonio Vieira and the Puritan 'Fifth Monarchy Men'
39.	REN, Yiming	Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences	Three Metaphorical uses of “Silence” in Three Female Postcolonial Writers’ Works
40.	RICAPITO, Joseph V.	Louisiana State University	A Globalized Cervantes
41.	RÖNNE MOBERG, Bergur	University of Copenhagen	The Don Juan motif in William Heinesen’s writing
42.	SCHMIDT, Karin		Cinderella in Vietnam
43.	SHANGO-LOKOHO, Tumba	Université Paris III	Considérations sur l’esthétique négro-africaine francophone d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
44.	SHANKMAN, Steven	University of Oregon Eugene	“Prosaic Profundity: The Dream of the Red Chamber and Clarissa as Higher Narratives”
45.	SHIDELER, Ross	UCLA	History & Desire in P.O. Enquist’s Livläkarens besök (1999)
46.	SUZUKI, Sadahiro	Ochanomizu University	“The Marriage of East and West”: Bernard Leach as a Cultural Pilgrim
47.	TAKEDA, Noriko	Hiroshima University	A Word’s Power: The Additional “Snow” in a Japanese Pre-Feminist Poem’s English Translation
48.	TALVET, Jüri	University of Tartu	On the Magic Border: Notes on Magic Realism and Tellurism in (Latin-American) Prose Fiction
49.	THORNTON, Naoko Fuwa	Japan Women’s University	Translation as a Counter-Colonial Tool: Okakura Kakuzo’s The Book of Tea
50.	UMEMOTO, Junko	Nihon University	Lafcadio Hearn as a Wanderer
51.	VASSALLO, Ligia	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	DES PRÊTRES ET DES HOMMES ou NATURALISME PAS MORT
52.	VEG, Sebastian	University of Tours	Lu Xun and the three betrayals of fiction: a problematic definition at the crossroads of several traditions.
53.	VENTURINO, Steven J.	Loyola University	Signifying on China’s Dialogue with Minority Criticism: African-American Literary Theory and Tibetan Discourse
54.	WHITE, Erdmute Wenzel	Purdue University	Dreaming in Color: German Expressionists and the Art of Self-Invention
55.	WOOD, Felicity	University of Fort Hare	Blood Money: Biblical and economic interpretations of oral narratives concerning wealth-giving snakes in the northern Transkei/ Kokstad area, South Africa
56.	YAMANAKA, K.	Toyo University	‘Anti-Poeticism’ in Japanese Poetic Tradition
57.	YOSHIHARA, Yukari	University of Tsukuba	A Transvestite Caliban Rules over Kowloon --- The Tempest in Kowloon : A Takarazuka adaptation of Shakespeare’s Tempest
58.	YUE, Daiyun	Peking University, P.R. China	Comparative Literature in the Era of Globalization – From the Chinese Perspective
59.	ZHANG, Xiang	Zhongshan University	Oriental Folk Woodblock Prints in a Cross-cultural Context: Japanese Ukiyo-e and Chinese New Year Picture in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century