Charlotte Beyer

Dr Charlotte Beyer is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She is a prize-winning academic author and has published widely on crime fiction and contemporary literature. Dr Beyer is the author of four single-author scholarly monographs to date, Murder in a Few Words: Gender, Genre and Location in the Crime Short Story (McFarland, 2020), Contemporary Children's and Young Adult Literature: Writing Back to History and Oppression (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), and Intersectionality and Decolonisation in Contemporary British Crime Fiction (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023). Her fourth monograph, Crime Fiction in the Age of #MeToo, was published by Anthem Press in November 2024. Her fifth monograph, on the subject of true crime, will be published in 2027 .

Dr Beyer has edited six books to date. These include Contemporary Crime Fiction: Crossing Boundaries, Merging Genres (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), and Teaching Crime Fiction (Palgrave, 2018). The latter book was shortlisted for the 2019 Teaching Literature Book Award. Decolonising the Literature Curriculum, her edited book on pedagogical scholarship, was published by Palgrave in March 2022, and was awarded the BACLS Edited Collection Prize. The BACLS judges said of the book:

"This is a highly distinctive and vital contribution to contemporary scholarship. The volume engages with a complex political and cultural challenge in a sophisticated but lucid fashion. The range of chapters and individual contributors cumulatively represent a highly original intervention in one of the most pressing issues in contemporary literary studies, particularly in pedagogy. We appreciate its relevance to current academia, its diverse perspectives and the useful methodologies proposed in the individual chapters. This is an invaluable and highly accessible text that we would encourage our colleagues to read."

Dr Beyer has also edited two journal special issues: American, British and Canadian Studies on contemporary crime fiction (2017); and Feminist Encounters on feminism and motherhood in the 21st Century (2019).

Dr Beyer is the Editor-in-Chief of Teaching the New English, the Palgrave book series on Higher Education pedagogy. She also serves on the Editorial Boards for the journals The New Americanist, American, British and Canadian Studies, and Feminist Encounters.