Volume 3: Fear

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Volume 3 explores the theme of FEAR, engaging with discourses surrounding the representation of fear in literature and art.

Contents:

Introduction, Dr Juha Virtanen

Dr Juha Virtanen  is Lecturer in Contemporary Literature at the University of Kent.

Beastly Lives: Animality and Postcolonial Embodiment in Jean Rhys’s Voyage in the Dark, Peter Atkins

Peter Atkins completed his MA at the University of Kent in 2015. He is currently writing a CHASE funded PhD at the University of Kent on the novels of James Joyce, Virginia Woolf and Djuna Barnes in relation to questions of ecology, animals and the nonhuman. His research interests include modernism, the experimental novel, animal studies, ecocriticism, climate change and critical theory.

‘I Am Your New Celebrity, I Am Your New America’: Disgust, Portest, and Performance in Terrorist Drag, Isabella Norton

Isabella Norton is a first year English PhD student at the University of Kent. Her current research interests include postmodern literature, 20th century American literature, and literature of the body. Specifically, her dissertation aims to examine the role of the non-normative body in the work of David Forster Wallace.

‘My Own Flesh and Blood, Old Nick’: John Fante’s Domestic Devils, Michael Docherty

After completing his BA at the University of Oxford in 2011, Michael Docherty returned to academia in 2015 to undertake his MA in English and American Literature at kent, where he will remain to commence his PhD in autumn 2016. His doctoral research focuses on reconstitutions of the concept of the frontier in the literary culture of mid-twentieth century Los Angelas. Other research interests include representations of the city in rhythm and blues music, and the fiction of Richard Yates.

Life-Changing Events, Rosemary Schadenberg

Rosemary Schadenberg is currently writing her thesis for the research matser Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Utrecht, and did an Erasmus exchange during the first term of the 2015-2016 academic year at the University of Kent in the subjects Literature and Medicine and Theory and Practice. Her interests include contemporary British literature and literature within the discourse of the Medical Humanities.

The Monstrous Feminine in clemence Housman’s The Were-Wolf, Mona Faysal Sahyoun

Mona Sahyoun is a PhD student in the Department of english Language and Literature at Beirut Arab Univeristy, researching the limitations of Hélène Cixous’s theory of “écriture féminine” when applied to novels written by Arab women. Her research interests include American feminism, French feminism, Arab feminism, traditional and rewritten fairy tales, African-American literature, Gothic literature and gender in the medieval period.