JEPS in Conversation, Episode 2

On the occasion of the launch of JEPS 10.2 Open Issue

📅 Thursday, 11 December 2025
⏰ 16:00 CET
📍 Online — Free and open to all with registration. Register HERE

The JEPS in Conversation series offers a space for editors and authors to engage directly with readers, discuss their research, and reflect on key questions shaping the field of periodical studies today.

This session brings together issue editors Helena Goodwyn and Zsuzsa Török in conversation with contributing authors Chiara Cremona, Yasemin Gencer, Anne-Marie Millim, and Hayarpi Papikyan, who will introduce their articles and discuss their research.

The seminar will be recorded and later released as an audio podcast on our website.

Featured Articles in Conversation

Chiara Cremona and Andrea Penso

“From Britain to Italy through France: A Preliminary Survey of the News about Walter Scott Published in the Italian Gazettes of the Early Nineteenth Century”

Biographical Notes: Chiara Cremona is a PhD candidate at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Her main research interests include nineteenth-century English, Italian, and French literature, periodical studies, and reception studies. Andrea Penso is an independent researcher with expertise in transcultural journalism, literary reception, and digital text analysis. He is the author of Un libero di Pindo abitator (2020), which won the research award from the Werkgroep ItaliĂ« Studies.

    Yasemin Gencer

    “Qualifying Inclusion: Photo-Sharing Initiatives in Turkish Periodicals of the 1920s”

    Biographical Note: Yasemin is an Assistant Professor in Wayne State University’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design. She is a scholar of Islamic art and civilisation specializing in Ottoman and modern Turkish art and print culture.

    Anne-Marie Millim

    “‘The Last New Novel’: Valuation Strategies in Reviews of Fiction Published in the Athenaeum and the Saturday Review, 1855–59”

    Biographical Note: Anne-Marie is an Assistant Professor in English Studies at the University of Luxembourg. Her research focuses on Victorian literature and early twentieth-century multilingual Luxembourgish writing. She has published widely on life-writing and the genres of the press.

    Hayarpi Papikyan

    “Reimagining the Borders of the Textual Nation: The Case of Armenian Literary Periodical Murch and Women’s Writing”

    Biographical Note: Hayarpi specialises in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Armenian studies, the history of Armenian women, and the history and sociology of schooling and institutionalised education. She holds a doctoral degree from the UniversitĂ© Paris V – Sorbonne CitĂ© and, since 2019, has been working at the American University of Armenia.