The anthropocene and the gothic: an interview with Justin Edwards

• Autores: Trang Dang (entrev.), Justin D. Edwards (entrevistado)
• Localización: REDEN (2019): Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, ISSN-e 2695-4168, Vol. 3, Nº. 2, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Conversations on the gothic in popular culture), págs. 190-201
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Justin Edwardsis a professor in the Division of Literature and Languages at the University of Stirling. Previously Chair of English at the University of Surrey and professor and head of English at Bangor University, he was elected by-fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge in 2005. Between 1995 and 2005, he taught at the University of Montreal and the University of Copenhagen, where he was appointed as an associate professor in 2002. He holds an Affiliate Professorship in US Literature at the University of Copenhagen andin 2016-2017 he was a Fulbright scholar at Elon University, North Carolina. He is also a member of the Peer Review College for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and a Trustee of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). Justin’s contribution to the study of Gothic literature started with Gothic Passages: Racial Ambiguity and the American Gothic, which examines the development of US Gothic literature alongside 19th-century discourses of passing and racial ambi-guity. In Gothic Canada: Reading the Spectre of a National Literature, he continued in the area by examining how collective stories about national identity and belonging tend to be haunted by artifice.