The International Crime Fiction Association is an international network of scholars, researchers and practitioners on the subject of crime fiction and the social and cultural history and development of crime and its surrounding issues. It originated from Dr. Fiona Peters (Bath Spa University) The Association now has over 400 members and that number is growing all the time. International conferences are directed by by Dr. Peters. A new journal Crime Fiction Studies, edited by Fiona Peters, assistant editors Eric Sandberg and Ruth Heholt, will be published by Edinburgh University Press from 2020.
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Dr Fiona Peters (Bath Spa University)
Director of the International Crime Fiction Association Dr. Peters is Reader in Crime Fiction at Bath Spa University in the UK. Her research 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 properly academic study of this underrated author’ and has been adopted as set reading in universities across the United States. Subsequently, Dr. 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. |
Emma Gardner (Bath Spa University)
Social Media and Blog Editor
Emma Gardner is currently undertaking her PhD in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Emma was one of the first students on the Crime and Gothic Fictions MA at Bath Spa and will be graduating with merit in February 2019. She is passionate about liberal feminism and its place within contemporary crime fiction, she presented a paper at Captivating Criminality 5 on the sexualisation of the female corpse. This research is being further explored in her PhD thesis. Her Twitter is @_emkins.
Social Media and Blog Editor
Emma Gardner is currently undertaking her PhD in English Literature at Bath Spa University. Emma was one of the first students on the Crime and Gothic Fictions MA at Bath Spa and will be graduating with merit in February 2019. She is passionate about liberal feminism and its place within contemporary crime fiction, she presented a paper at Captivating Criminality 5 on the sexualisation of the female corpse. This research is being further explored in her PhD thesis. Her Twitter is @_emkins.
Anna Kirsch (Durham University)
Book Reviews Editor
Anna Kirsch is currently completing her English Studies MA at Durham University. Her thesis is on Environmental Ethics and Morality in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction, and she presented a paper on public justice and private revenge in Hiaasen’s fiction at Captivating Criminality 4. Her research interests include Crime Fiction, Satire, and American Studies. Her Twitter is @kucerakirsch.
Book Reviews Editor
Anna Kirsch is currently completing her English Studies MA at Durham University. Her thesis is on Environmental Ethics and Morality in Carl Hiaasen’s Crime Fiction, and she presented a paper on public justice and private revenge in Hiaasen’s fiction at Captivating Criminality 4. Her research interests include Crime Fiction, Satire, and American Studies. Her Twitter is @kucerakirsch.
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Eric Sandberg (City University of Hong Hong Kong)
Assistant Editor, Crime Fiction Studies Eric Sandberg completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong and 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 his work has appeared in journals including the Cambridge Quarterly, Ariel, and Neohelicon. His plenary talk at the upcoming 6th Annual Conference of the International Crime Fiction Association will discuss the way crime writing moves across genre boundaries |
