Fiona Peters (Bath Spa University)
Director of the International Crime Fiction Association

Fiona Peters is a Professor in Crime Fiction at Bath Spa University in the UK. Her research in the area of crime fiction, including that on the crime writer Patricia Highsmith is internationally recognised. Her 2011 monograph Anxiety and Evil in the Writings of Patricia Highsmith (Ashgate) has been described as ‘the first proper academic study of this underrated author’ and has been adopted as set reading in universities across the United States. Subsequently, Prof. Peters was invited to guest edit a volume of the prestigious ‘Clues’ journal, ‘Patricia Highsmith: A Re-evaluation’, to mark the twentieth anniversary of Highsmith’s death. This volume was published in November 2015. 

Since then she has been a keynote at several international conferences, established the International Crime Fiction Association (from 2017) and the Captivating Criminality conferences (from 2014) and published widely in the are of crime fiction. In 2019 she established the Edinburgh University Press journal Crime Fiction Studies of which she is editor. 

​Her other research interests include Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis, Evil Studies and Gender Studies. She is currently working on a monograph with Routledge, Collective Obsession: Representations of Evil in True Crime Narratives, and Crime Fiction: An Introduction (EUP).
Eric Sandberg (City University of Hong Kong)
Co-Editor of Crime Fiction Studies

Eric Sandberg completed his Ph.D. at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. He also holds a Docentship at the University of Oulu. His research focuses on the intersections between forms of genre fiction - especially crime writing - and literary fiction. He edited 100 Greatest Literary Detectives (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018), and wrote Dorothy L. Sayers: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction, which will be published with McFarland in 2021. His work has appeared in journals including Ariel, Cambridge Quarterly, Crime Fiction Studies, Journal of Modern Literature, Partial Answers, and Neohelicon, and in numerous edited collections. His plenary talk at the 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association in Pescara, Italy, explored the ways crime writing is gradually moving across genre boundaries.
Linda Ledford-Miller (Professor Emerita of the University of Scranton)
Coordinator of Annual Book Prize & Webmaster
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Dr. Ledford-Miller recently retired from teaching and committees, but not from academic endeavors. She continues to work across cultures and continents according to where her interests take her. She has published widely on Travel Writing and American Minority writers. Her recent work focuses on Crime Fiction, including Robert Downey Jr.’s interpretation of Sherlock Holmes, gender roles in the In Death series by the American J.D. Robb, the village mysteries of the Canadian Louise Penny, the philosophical Inspector Espinosa series by the Brazilian Luis Alfredo Garcia-Roza, and the stand alone crime novel by the Mexican Laura Esquivel, best known for the smashing success of her first novel, Like Water for Chocolate (1989).
Kerstin-Anja Münderlein (University of Bamberg)
Coordinator of ​Captivating Criminality 8

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein is a research associate at the Department of English Literature at the University of Bamberg where she also finished her PhD on Gothic Parodies of the long 18th century in 2018. Her dissertation (publication forthcoming in 2021) traces the relationship of genre, reception and frames in the Gothic parodies of the first wave of Gothic, focusing on socio-political subversion and the heroine. Besides her research in the Gothic, she has published on the poetry of the Great War and on socio-political discourses in Star Trek: Discovery fanfiction. 
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After discovering the Captivating Criminality conferences a few years ago and joining the ICFA, Kerstin has eagerly embraced the chance of writing her postdoc project on crime fiction. She is now working on the representation of gender roles in Golden Age and neo-Golden Age crime fiction. The topic of the 2021 Bamberg conference, Captivating Criminality 8: Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities, is a direct result of her fascination with the topic of gender in crime fiction.
Ffion Davies (City University Hong Kong)
Admin, Social Media & Marketing

Ffion is a PhD student at City University of Hong Kong researching deviant masculinities and the figure of the homme fatal in early twentieth-century American crime fiction. She was awarded the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship in 2020 and assists as part of the admin team for the International Crime Fiction Association managing social media, marketing and admin. She has a particular interest in the study of subversions of hegemonic masculinities through Crime and Horror narratives of the twentieth century. 
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Her twitter is @ffionrosedavies.
Amber Huckle (Bath Spa University)
Admin Team

Amber is a PhD student at Bath Spa University, specialising in contemporary Crime Fiction. Her research interest lies in the representation of gun culture in American Crime Fiction, with a particular interest in the writings of James Ellroy and Don Winslow. A recent graduate of Bath Spa’s MA in Crime and Gothic Fictions, Amber produced an investigation on the representation of transition in Jean Claude Izzo’s Marseilles Trilogy, which she presented at the International Crime Fiction Association's Captivating Criminality 6, Metamorphoses of Crime: Facts and Fictions.
Anna Kirsch (Durham University)
Book Reviews Editor

Anna Kirsch completed her English Studies MA at Durham University and is currently continuing her Ph.D. studies at Durham supervised by Professor Timothy Clark and Dr Samuel Thomas. Her work focuses on environmental ethics and morality in genre fiction, and more specifically, crime fiction. Her Twitter is @kucerakirsch.