Jeremy Hawthorn Editor & Author

Gail Fincham is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She has edited, co-edited, and contributed to three collections of essays on Conrad (1996, 2002, 2003), and is a contributor to Joseph Conrad: Voice, Sequence, History, Genre (ed. Lothe, Hawthorn, Phelan, 2008). With Jeremy Hawthorn and Jakob Lothe she co-edited and contributed to Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (Palgrave, 2008), wrote the monograph The Novels of Zakes Mda in Postapartheid South Africa (UCT Press, 2011) and contributed to Each Other’s Yarns: Essays on Narrative and Critical Method for Jeremy Hawthorn (Novus Press, 2012).

Jeremy Hawthorn is Emeritus Professor of Modern British Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has published three monographs and many articles on the fiction of Joseph Conrad, and other monographs and articles on narrative and on literary theory. The 4th edition of his A Glossary of Contemporary Literary Theory was published in 2000, and the 6th edition of his Studying the Novel in 2010.

Jakob Lothe is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has also taught comparative literature at the universities of Bergen and Oslo. Lothe’s books include Conrad’s Narrative Method (Oxford University Press, 1989) and Narrative in Fiction and Film (Oxford University Press, 2000). He has edited and co-edited many volumes, including The Art of Brevity (University of South Carolina Press, 2004; paperback 2011), Literary Landscapes: From Modernism to Postcolonialism (Palgrave, 2008); Joseph Conrad (Ohio State University Press, 2008), Franz Kafka (Ohio State University Press, 2011), and After Testimony: the Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future (Ohio State University Press, 2012).