Exploring the Fantastic ― Genre, Ideology, and Popular Culture

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. The contributors to this volume discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic and giving new impetus to its theoretical and methodological approaches, textual materials, main interests, and its crucial findings.

Ina Batzke teaches American studies at the English seminar of the University of Munster and is a PhD student at the graduate school Practices of Literature. Her research interests include migration and refugee literature, life writing, law and literature, and ethnic studies.

Eric C. Erbacher is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Munster. His research interests include urban studies, media studies, and cultural studies, with a focus on the intersection of these fields with issues of visual culture, especially photography, popular culture, and class.

Linda M. Hes is a lecturer and postdoctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of queer studies, aging studies, science fiction, modernism, and gender studies.

Corinna Lenhardt is a research assistant and lecturer in American studies at the University of Munster. Her research and teaching interests include ethnic studies, digital cultures, race, gender, and Gothic fiction.