Author: Kirsten Stirling

Kirsten Stirling has taught in the English department of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, since 1998. She studied at the University of Glasgow (MA 1995; PhD 2001). Her book Bella Caledonia: Woman, Nation, Text (2008) explores the gendered iconography of nation in twentieth-century Scottish literature. She has published on Scottish literature, children”s literature and on the religious poetry of John Donne.Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère teaches Modern English Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her teaching and research interests include various aspects of modernist and postmodern fiction, postcolonial literature and translation studies. She is the author of Origin and Originality in Salman Rushdie”s Fiction (1999) and has published some twenty articles on issues ranging from the figure of the cannibal in Victorian fiction to X-ray imagery in Conrad”s Heart of Darkness, visual and narrative art in Carter”s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue”s queer rewritings of classical fairy tales.