Marie-luise Kohlke

Biography

Marie-Luise (Mel) Kohlke researches and teaches in the inter-disciplinary fields of neo-Victorianism, trauma narrative and theory, and gender studies, with particular interests in sexuality, cultural memory, and representations of violence. She is the Founding and General Editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access e-journal, Neo-Victorian Studies, the first international, academic journal specifically dedicated to the subject. She is Series Co-editor (with Christian Gutleben) of the Neo-Victorian Series for Brill/Rodopi, which so far includes four volumes on Neo-Victorian Trauma, Neo-Victorian Families, Neo-Victorian Gothic, and Neo-Victorian Cities, with two further volumes on Neo-Victorian Humour and Neo-Victorian Biofiction in process. Mel is currently working on a monograph on Neo-Victorian Sexsation, as well as conducting research on reader response and bodily figuration in fictions of historical conflict. Other projects include the compilation of an on-line database on neo-Victorian literature and setting up a Neo-Victorian Network to further promote collaborative research into the neo-Victorian phenomenon.

Research Interest

Neo-Victorianism, trauma narrative & theory, gender & sexuality, cultural memory, the Gothic.