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Her current research projects include two monographs: one on the Gothic
and twentieth-century women writers and the other on Angela Carter,
Pierrette Fleutiaux and the European Gothic.
Denise deCaires Narain is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities
at the University of Sussex, UK. She has also taught at the Open University
and the University of the West Indies. She has published widely on
Caribbean women’s writing, including Contemporary Caribbean Women’s
Writing: Making Style (2001). She was awarded a Leverhulme Research
Fellowship in 2002 to work on a book-length study of contemporary postcolonial
women’s writing. She is also completing a monograph on the
work of Olive Senior.
Wendy O’Brien is a Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Central
Queensland University, Australia. Her PhD Thesis, Queerest of the Queer,
examined the fiction of Angela Carter and the politics of pornography
in the context of contemporary Queer. With primary research interests in
sexuality and contemporary literature, she is presently researching the
nexus between food imagery and sensuality in fiction. Her current projects
include the joint editorship of a special issue on sexuality of the journal
Transformations.
Mary Orr is Professor of Modern French Studies at the University of Exeter,
UK. Her recent publications include Intertextuality: Debates and Contexts
(2003) and Flaubert: Writing the Masculine (2000). Her current research projects
include essays on death and on male costume in Flaubert, a co-edited volume
of feminist reappraisals of male canonical writers and a monograph project
to remap the history of ideas of nineteenth-century France.
Patricia Pender is currently completing her PhD in English at Stanford
University, US, where she works on early modern women’s writing and
feminist literary history. She has published articles on Aphra Behn and
Anne Bradstreet, as well as a previous piece on Buffy in Rhonda Wilcox and
David Lavery’s Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
(2003). She recently designed and taught a new class on third wave representation
and production, Girls on Film, which she plans to develop as a
postdoctoral project.
Sherin Saadallah is affiliated with Kvinnoforum in Sweden, a foundation
working for gender and women’s rights issues internationally. She has also
acted as an expert on women’s empowerment on behalf of the UN (2001),
and has had a career as a diplomat, specialising in Middle East Affairs. She
holds an MA in Social Science, an MA in International Development, and
is currently completing a PhD at the University of Stockholm, Sweden. Her