Sarah Faber Editor

Sarah Faber’s central research areas are Games Studies, the fantastic, and nineteenth-century British literature, united by an overarching interest in constructions of gender and identity. She completed her B.A. and M.A. at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and wrote her doctoral thesis on narrative in multiplayer games and its relation to oral storytelling. She was a research and teaching associate at JGU Mainz for five years and, during this time, was part of the editorial team for the International Journal of Literary Linguistics. She is currently a fellow at Brandenburg University of Applied Sciences, where she works at the centre for diversity and accessibility.

Kerstin-Anja Münderlein is an Assistant Lecturer and post-doc at the Institute of English and American Studies (Department of English Literature) at the University of Bamberg where she completed her PhD on Gothic Parody in 2019. Her fields of research include Gothic novels and parodies of the long eighteenth century with a focus on quixotism and normative femininity, British poetry of the Great War (especially Vera Brittain’s writings), and the constructions of femininities and masculinities in English Golden Age Crime Fiction. Her methodological focus lies on gender studies, audience and reception theory. She is assistant editor for Crime Fiction Studies and currently edits a themed issue on Gender and Gothic for the journal. Her most recent publications include Genre and Reception in the Gothic Parody: Framing the Subversive Heroine (Routledge, 2022) and the edited collection Crime Fiction, Femininities and Masculinities (U of Bamberg P, forthcoming 2024)