Series Editors:

Andrew Mangham is Professor of English Literature and Medical Humanities at the University of Reading, UK. For Cambridge University Press, he has edited the Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction and, with Clark Lawlor, Literature and Medicine: the Eighteenth Century and Literature and Medicine: the Nineteenth Century. He is the author of We Are All Monsters: How Deviant Organisms Came to Define Us (MIT Press, 2023), The Science of Starving in Victorian Literature, Medicine and Political Economy (OUP, 2020), Dickens’s Forensic Realism: Truth, Bodies, Evidence (Ohio State UP, 2017), and Violent Women and Sensation Fiction (Palgrave, 2007). He is also editor, with Daniel Lea, of The Male Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2018) and, with Greta Depledge, The Female Body in Medicine and Literature (Liverpool UP, 2013). 

Alanna Skuse is Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Reading, UK. She is the author of Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England: Ravenous Natures (Palgrave, 2016) and Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England: altered bodies and contexts of identity (CUP, 2021). She has written for academic journals, edited volumes and non-academic publications on topics including Shakespeare, early modern drama, Amazons, cancer and self-harm. She is currently completing a monograph provisionally titled Hurt Feelings: Self-injury in Early Modern England.

Advisory Board

Tristanne Connolly (University of Waterloo)

Liping Gao (Peking University)

Travis Chi Wang Lau (Kenyon College)

Nolwazi Mkhwanazo (University of Pretoria)

Avishek Parui (Indian Institute of Technology)

Brid Phillips (University of Western Australia)

Lindsey Row-Heyveld (Luther College)

Rohan Deb Roy (University of Reading)

Alison Schwartz (St. George’s University of London)

Hülya Yildiz (Middle East Technical University)

Byrad Yyelland (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Marie Arong (University of the Philippines Cebu)

Jurgen Pieters (Ghent University)