Notes on Contributors
Benjamin Colbert, co-editor of this special issue, is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Wolverhampton and a member of its History and Governance Research Institute. He is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision (Ashgate, 2005) and volume editor of British Satire 1785–1840 (Pickering & Chatto, 2003). He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW) and is General Editor for the 'Literature in Transit' Series (Humanities-Ebooks).
Michael Cronin holds a Personal Chair and is Director of the Centre for Translation and Textual Studies at Dublin City University, Ireland. His publications include Across the Lines: Travel, Language, Translation (Cork University Press, 2000), Translation and Globalization (Routledge, 2003) and Translation and Identity (Routledge, 2006) and, as co-editor, Tourism in Ireland: A Critical Analysis (Cork University Press, 1993) and Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity (Clevedon, Channel View Publications, 2003).
Anke Gilleir is Associate Professor of German Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium. Her research topics are eighteenth and nineteenth-century women's literature; literature, gender and aesthetics; and literature and (national) identity. She is the author of Johanna Schopenhauer und die Weimarer Klassik. Betrachtungen über die Selbstpositionierung weiblichen Schreibens (Hildesheim, 2000), co-editor of Textmaschinenkörper. Genderorientierte Lektüren des Androiden (Amsterdam, 2006) and has most recently edited the epic poem, Flore und Blanscheflur, by the German romantic author Sophie Tieck (Hildesheim, 2007). [End Page vii]
Glyn Hambrook, co-editor of this special issue, is Senior Lecturer in European Literature in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Wolverhampton and a member of the University's History and Governance Research Institute. He has published on the reception of French literature and Degeneration Theory in Fin de Siècle Spain, as well as on European poetry of the same period. He is currently completing books on the reception of Francophone literature in the Spanish modernista review Helios and on Baudelaire in Spain. He is a member of the executive committee of the BCLA.
Emma Kafalenos is a Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. She is the author of Narrative Causalities (2006), the guest editor of Narrative 9:2 (2001), a special issue on 'Contemporary Narratology', and has published more than twenty articles in journals including Comparative Literature, Yearbook of Contemporary and General Literature, Poetics Today, Narrative, Nineteenth-Century Music, and Visible Language.
Alan Kirby completed his doctoral thesis on identity shift in twentieth-century British narratives of European travel at the University of Exeter. His recent publications include 'Holidays with the Hun: The Male Tourist and His Murderous Itinerary' (Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 2007).
Ludmilla K. Kostova is Associate Professor of British Literature and Cultural Studies at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. She has published widely on eighteenth-century, Romantic and modern British literature and has organised seminars and panels on travel writing and cultural encounter. Her book Tales of the Periphery: The Balkans in Nineteenth-Century British Writing (1997) has been frequently cited by specialists in the field. Together with Corinne Fowler, she edited a special issue of Journeys – The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing 4:1 (2003) on ethics and travel.
Samantha Matthews is Lecturer in Victorian Literature in the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics at the University of Sheffield. Her first book is Poetical Remains: Poets' Graves, Bodies, and Books in the Nineteenth Century (2004), and she has wide-ranging interdisciplinary interests in nineteenth-century literature and culture. [End Page viii]
Catharine Mee is a Junior Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. She is currently completing her doctoral thesis on the subject of encounters between travellers and others in late twentieth-century travel writing in French and Italian.
Ceri Morgan is Lecturer in French at Keele University. Convenor of the research group Le Groupe de recherches et d'études sur le Canada francophone, she is currently working on a monograph on...
