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, UK) and Dr. Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish's (University of Gdańsk, Poland) shared research interests in these areas of study and an acknowledgment from both of them that the interest in the crime fiction conferences they were both running were attracting increasing interest, and there was a demand for an organisation that would facilitate ongoing involvement in and fostering of research and publication in this growing area of interest. Today, the Association, which enjoys a research link between Bath Spa University and the University of Gdańsk, has over 100 members and that number is growing all the time. International conferences are directed in the UK by Dr. Peters and in Poland by Dr. Sienkiewicz-Charlish and there are plans for the development of a peer-reviewed journal.
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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. |
Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa University)
Partner in the International Crime Fiction Association
Joanne Ella Parsons is an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University. Her PhD is entitled Food and the Male Body: Narratives of Consumption in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Her co-edited collection of essays on the Victorian Male Body will be published by Edinburgh University Press in May 2018. She has previously co-edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts, in which she published an essay on the fat male body in R. S. Surtees’ Jorrocks novels. Joanne is the editor of the Wilkie Collins Journal and the assistant editor of Revenant. Joanne was the co-founder, with Dr. Sarah Chaney, of the Damaging the Body series of events. More information is available about her work on her website. Please contact her via email (j.parsons1@bathspa.ac.uk) or follow her on Twitter (@joparsons)
Partner in the International Crime Fiction Association
Joanne Ella Parsons is an Associate Lecturer at Bath Spa University. Her PhD is entitled Food and the Male Body: Narratives of Consumption in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Her co-edited collection of essays on the Victorian Male Body will be published by Edinburgh University Press in May 2018. She has previously co-edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts, in which she published an essay on the fat male body in R. S. Surtees’ Jorrocks novels. Joanne is the editor of the Wilkie Collins Journal and the assistant editor of Revenant. Joanne was the co-founder, with Dr. Sarah Chaney, of the Damaging the Body series of events. More information is available about her work on her website. Please contact her via email (j.parsons1@bathspa.ac.uk) or follow her on Twitter (@joparsons)
Dr. Agnieszka Sienkiewicz-Charlish (University of Gdańsk)
Partner in the International Crime Fiction Association.
Dr. Sienkiewicz-Charlish completed her PhD on the subject of genre polymorphism in the fiction of Ian Rankin at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, where she organises a bi-annual international crime fiction conference Crime Fiction Here and There. She is the co-editor (with Urszula Elias) of Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context (Peter Lang, 2014) and (with Stephen Butler) Crime Fiction – A Critical Casebook (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2018). Her research interests include crime fiction, contemporary Scottish fiction and the Gothic.
Partner in the International Crime Fiction Association.
Dr. Sienkiewicz-Charlish completed her PhD on the subject of genre polymorphism in the fiction of Ian Rankin at the University of Gdańsk, Poland, where she organises a bi-annual international crime fiction conference Crime Fiction Here and There. She is the co-editor (with Urszula Elias) of Crime Scenes: Modern Crime Fiction in an International Context (Peter Lang, 2014) and (with Stephen Butler) Crime Fiction – A Critical Casebook (Peter Lang, forthcoming 2018). Her research interests include crime fiction, contemporary Scottish fiction and the Gothic.
Frankie Dobson (Bath Spa University)
Social Media Editor
Frankie Dobson is currently completing her Crime and Gothic Fictions MA at Bath Spa University. Looking to continue from interests found within her undergraduate English Literature degree, Frankie is interested in continuing her academic research into the figure of the psychopath, as well as furthering her consideration of the portrayal of the mutilated body and sex crimes in contemporary crime fiction. Frankie contributes to the International Crime Fiction Association's social media and volunteered as a student helper at Captivating Criminality 4.
Social Media Editor
Frankie Dobson is currently completing her Crime and Gothic Fictions MA at Bath Spa University. Looking to continue from interests found within her undergraduate English Literature degree, Frankie is interested in continuing her academic research into the figure of the psychopath, as well as furthering her consideration of the portrayal of the mutilated body and sex crimes in contemporary crime fiction. Frankie contributes to the International Crime Fiction Association's social media and volunteered as a student helper at Captivating Criminality 4.
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.
Isabela D. B. Lopes
Social Media Assistant
Isabela contributes to the social media in International Crime Fiction Association. She graduated at Universidade Federal Fluminense, also known as UFF, in the first semester of 2017 and during this period she studied the relation between detectives and the police and its roots in Christie's, Doyle's and Poe's novels and short stories. Currently, she is studying continuation novels and following an academic career to continue her studies in this area.
Social Media Assistant
Isabela contributes to the social media in International Crime Fiction Association. She graduated at Universidade Federal Fluminense, also known as UFF, in the first semester of 2017 and during this period she studied the relation between detectives and the police and its roots in Christie's, Doyle's and Poe's novels and short stories. Currently, she is studying continuation novels and following an academic career to continue her studies in this area.
Samuel Saunders (Liverpool John Moores University)
Blog Editor
Samuel Saunders is a third-year PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is researching the role of the periodical press on the evolution, construction and reception of mid-to-late Victorian crime-fiction. He has articles awaiting publication for the Wilkie Collins Journal and Law, Crime and History, and has previously written for BAVS and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. He is also currently co-editing a collection on sidekicks in crime-fiction with Dr. Lucy Andrew.
Blog Editor
Samuel Saunders is a third-year PhD student at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is researching the role of the periodical press on the evolution, construction and reception of mid-to-late Victorian crime-fiction. He has articles awaiting publication for the Wilkie Collins Journal and Law, Crime and History, and has previously written for BAVS and the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals. He is also currently co-editing a collection on sidekicks in crime-fiction with Dr. Lucy Andrew.