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Monica Latham
Université de Lorraine à Nancy
Professor of English Literature at the Université de Lorraine à Nancy, specialist in Virginia Woolf and contemporary biofiction, and author of Virginia Woolf’s Afterlives: The Author as Character in Fiction and Drama (2020) and A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015).
Helen Davies
University of Wolverhampton
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Wolverhampton, specialist in Neo-Victorian culture, and disability studies, and author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (2012) and Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show (2015).
The funding
The funding for our research has been provided by the Generalitat Valenciana (Conselleria de Educación, Universidades y Empleo) through two consecutive projects: “Biofiction and the Nineteenth Century: Gender and Ethics in Contemporary Transatlantic Culture” (CIGE/2021/140) and “Contemporary Biofiction: Peripheral Figures and Transnational Crossings” (CIGE/2023/50).
