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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.
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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.
Dorota Horvath
Dorota is a PhD student in American Literature at the University of Kent. Her work investigates the application of postmodern sentiment that appropriates the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland texts that became the inspiration for Joyce Carol Oates’ Wonderland Quartet. Dorota was a visiting PhD associate at Queen Mary University of London in 2019, and a visiting PhD Fulbright fellow at New York University in 2018.
Lilith Cooper
Lilith is a first-year PhD student in the School of English, working on a CHASE AHRC funded collaborative project, ‘The Culture, Politics and Lived Experience of Health: Zines at the Wellcome Collection’. They have a BSc from The Open University and balance their research into zines and liminality with zine making, zine librarianship at the Edinburgh Zine Library and a participatory arts practice.
Tiffany Messer-Bass
Tiffany is an international student from the United States studying an MA in Comparative Literature. She received her BA in Geography and Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, her master’s in Library Science from East Carolina University, and her EdS from Appalachian State University. Her primary interests of study include migration narratives, interracial romance narratives in the young adult genre, and intergenerational suffering in contemporary fiction.
The editorial board of Litterae Mentis would like to thank Dr Claire Hurley, Caroline Millar, Dr Declan Kavanagh, Dr Juha Virtanen, and Dr Michael Docherty for their generosity in contributing to the peer review process, and Dr Matthew Whittle and Dr Clare Wright for their advice and support on the project. We would also like to thank Alycia Oppenheim and Matt Winkless for their contributions as part of the editorial team; Bharanee Moothoosamy, Poppy Britcher, Yazan Abu Jbara, Rachel Anderson, and Salma Alarfaj for proofreading articles; and Raquel Pedrazuela Blanco and Mary Bourne for producing the artwork for this volume.
Finally, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to the production of this journal during the unprecedented circumstances of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Litterae Mentis: A Journal of Literary Studies is an interdisciplinary journal, edited and published by postgraduate students from the School of English at the University of Kent. It contains papers written by taught and research postgraduate students.
The seventh volume explores the theme of rebirth and its representations in literature.
University of Kent | 2021 ISSN: 2055-8163
