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  • About the Contributors

Angelica Duran (durano@purdue.edu) is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and the Director of Religious Studies at Purdue University. She earned her PhD at Stanford University in 2000. Her pedagogical publications include her edited volume A Concise Companion to Milton (2007), as well as chapters in the Modern Language Association’s Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas (2008) and Approaches to Teaching Milton’s Shorter Poetry and Prose (2007). The bulk of her current research deals with Milton in relation to Spain and Hispanoamerica.

Michael J. Flexer (enmjf@leeds.ac.uk) is a doctoral candidate at the new Centre for Medical Humanities, University of Leeds. His research topic is “everyday narratives of schizophrenia” and his thesis draws on material from across the humanities and health sciences, including narratives provided by persons diagnosed with schizophrenia. He has an MSc in Medical Humanities from King’s College London and a BA in English Language and Literature from St Hugh’s College, Oxford. He is also a published children’s author and runs a small theatre company.

Samantha Haigh (samantha.haigh@warwick.ac.uk) is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick, where she teaches various modules on French literature and culture, in particular French women’s writing and postcolonial literature. She is the author of Mapping a Tradition: Francophone Women’s Writing from Guadeloupe (2000) and An Introduction to Caribbean Francophone Writing: Guadeloupe and Martinique (1999). In recent years, she has begun working on the politics and representations of disability in France.

Alice Hall (alicehall66@gmail.com) wrote her PhD on representations of disability in twentieth-century literature in the Faculty of English at the University of Cambridge and recently completed a postdoctoral position at the Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham. She is the author of Disability and Modern Fiction: Faulkner, Morrison, Coetzee and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2012). She currently teaches at Université Paris-Diderot.

Nicola M. Imbracsio (nmimbracsio@go.granite.edu) is a professor of early British literature at Granite State College in New Hampshire. Her research focuses on early modern English drama and theatre culture, specifically on the depiction and performance of the body. She is currently working on a manuscript that investigates the staging of the corpse in the early modern popular theatre.

Hemachandran Karah (hemakarah@gmail.com) is a Visiting Associate Fellow at the Center for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. In continuation to his doctoral thesis on the writings of Ved Mehta, he is working on a book concerning the idea of blind culture.

Sarah Lewthwaite (sarah.lewthwaite@kcl.ac.uk) is a Research Associate at the King’s Learning Institute, King’s College London. She has published a number of papers, articles, and book chapters on higher education, disability, accessibility, and social media. Her PhD focuses on student experiences of disability and social networks. At present, alongside her [End Page 353] research into student experience, she is working to develop the intersection between critical disability studies and human computer interaction in computer science.

Stuart Murray (s.f.murray@leeds.ac.uk) is Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film in the School of English at the University of Leeds, where he is also the Director of the interdisciplinary Leeds Centre for Medical Humanities. His work focuses on the cultural representations of disability and he is the author of Representing Autism: Culture, Narrative, Fascination (2008) and Autism (2011), which was the launch book in Routledge’s new series, Integrating Science and Culture. His latest book project is on disability and the posthuman.

Sandra Schwab (sschwab@uni-mainz.de) received her PhD from Mainz University, where she is lecturer in British literature. Her research interests include popular literature, especially fantasy and romance fiction, folk literature, and British society and culture in the 1800s. Her postdoctoral project deals with the depiction of travel in Punch. [End Page 354]

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