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CONTRIBUTORS Dr Stella Bolaki Dr Stella Bolaki is Reader in American Literature and Medical Humanities and has worked in the School of English at the University of Kent since 2011. She is author of Unsettling the Bildungsroman: Reading Contemporary Ethnic American Women’s Fiction (2011) and of Illness as Many Narratives: Arts, Medicine and Culture (2016). She has co-edited Audre Lorde’s Transnational Legacies (2015) and Prescriptions: Artists’ Books on Wellbeing and Medicine (2017). Her current project explores how ideas of self-care are interrogated and articulated in contemporary literature and culture, across a wide range of genres, and draws on philosophical, medical, activist, and other interdisciplinary material.
Kieran Blewitt Kieran is an MA student in Ancient History at the University of Kent. His main interests are in Republican Roman history, primarily in the Punic Wars and the projection of civic identity in southern Italic municipia, as well as more broadly the reception of Classics in video games and contemporary literature.
Salamis Aysegul Sentug Salamis Aysegul Sentug is an award-winning writer from Cyprus. She holds master’s degrees in Philosophy and in Philosophy of Art and Literature. Her academic background spans the fields of performance philosophy, philosophy of art, aesthetics and philosophy of literature. Parallel to her academic publications, she has published poetry and short stories in various magazines. She won a short story award and has been translated to other languages. She is currently doing her PhD at the University of Kent on the Contemporary Novel.
