Crime Fiction and Community is delighted to welcome our two keynote speakers, Professor Mary Evans and Professor Gill Plain.
Professor Gill Plain
Gill Plain is Professor of English Literature at the University of St Andrews. She has published extensively on crime fiction, representations of war, and British culture of the 1940s and 1950s. Her publications include Twentieth-Century Crime Fiction: Gender, Sexuality and the Body (EUP, 2001) and Ian Rankin's Black and Blue: A Reader's Guide (Continuum, 2002). Professor Plain's recent monograph, Literature of the 1940s: War, Postwar and 'Peace', was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2013.
Professor Plain will be speaking on 'Precarious Life? Policing Gender and Community in Contemporary American Crime Narrative'.
Professor Plain will be speaking on 'Precarious Life? Policing Gender and Community in Contemporary American Crime Narrative'.
Professor Mary EVans
Mary Evans is London School of Economics Centennial Professor at the Gender Institute. Her work focuses on the narratives through which we construct social identity, and especially the roles gender and class play in these narratives. Professor Evans is co-editor of the Sage Handbook of Feminist Theory (2014) and has recently published on agency, gender, and austerity. In 2011, Continuum published her study on The Imagination of Evil: Detective Fiction and the Modern World. A new monograph, The Persistence of Gender Inequality, is forthcoming.
Professor Evans will be speaking on 'Detecting Enlightenment: Detection and the End of Enlightenment'.
Professor Evans will be speaking on 'Detecting Enlightenment: Detection and the End of Enlightenment'.