Autor: Andrea Zittlau

Anna Kérchy is a Senior Assistant Professor and a member of the Gender Studies Research Group at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Szeged and a DEA in Semiology from Université Paris VII. Her monograph Body-Texts in Angela Carter: Writing from a Corporeagraphic Point of View (2008) offers a corporeal narratological analysis of self-enfreaked embodiments” feminist potentials. One of her major research interests centers on the figure of the freak in Victorian and postmodern fantastic imagination, and intermedial cultural representations.Andrea Zittlau is an Assistant Professor in the Department for American Studies and a Coordinator of the Graduate School program „Cultural Encounters and Discourses of Scholarship” at the University of Rostock, Germany. She wrote her PhD thesis about the representation of Native American cultures in ethnographic museums. Her current research concentrates on ethnographic and medical museums, as well as on freakery and the medical body.