Considering the relationship between art, the artist, and society, Margaret Atwood states: “Let us suppose that the words the writer writes do not exist in some walled garden called ‘literature’, but actually get out there into the world, and have effects and consequences. Don’t we then have to begin talking ethics and responsibilities […]?” (2015, 87). Speakers participating in this symposium, hosted in-person within the Book Studies department at the University of Münster, will present their work interpreting “responsibility” in literature and publishing to generate discussions about the myriad of ways responsibility manifests in the field.