Exploring the Fantastic

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

Ina Batzke is a lecturer and research assistant at Münster University and visiting scholar at UC Santa Barbara, California (2016-2018). Her research interests include Migration and Refugee Literature, Life Writing, Law and Literature, and Ethnic Studies.

Eric C. Erbacher is an American Studies scholar based in Münster, Germany. 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. Heß is a lecturer (wiss. Mitarbeiterin) and post-doctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of Queer Studies, Aging Studies, Science Fiction, Modernism, and Gender Studies. She is a member of the Governing Council of the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS).

Corinna Lenhardt, born 1982, received her PhD in American studies from Universität Münster, Germany. Her research and teaching interests include African American and ethnic studies, race, gender, and popular culture. Her book »Savage Horrors« was awarded the Dissertationspreis 2020/2021 der Gesellschaft fur Fantastikforschung e.V.