作者: Elisabeth Wennö

Maria Holmgren Troy is Associate Professor in English at Karlstad University, Sweden. Her most recent research deals with memory and trauma in literature, and she is currently involved in a book project on family and memory in contemporary American novels. Earlier publications: In the First Person and in the House: The House Chronotope in Four Works by American Women Writers (1999), Memory, Haunting, Discourse (co-ed. 2005), Collective Traumas: Memories of War and Conflict in 20th-Century Europe (co-ed, 2007, Peter Lang”s “Multiple Europes” series) and essays on the works of Octavia Butler, Elizabeth Stoddard, Kaye Gibbons, Margaret Atwood and Pat Barker.Elisabeth Wennö is Associate Professor in English at Karlstad University, Sweden. She is the co-editor of three previous anthologies, one of which is Memory, Haunting, Discourse (co-ed. 2005), the author of a number of articles on a variety of writers and genres, and currently heads a research group on narrativity at Karlstad University. Her PhD thesis, Ironic Formula in the Novels of Beryl Bainbridge (1993) is to date the only book-length study of Bainbridge in literary criticism.