University of Copenhagen

Faculty Member, Department of English, German and Roman Studies

Associate Professor of American Literature

Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies

About

Dr. Martyn Bone is associate professor of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of _The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction_ (Louisiana State University Press, 2005) and the editor of _Perspectives on Barry Hannah_ (University Press of Mississippi, 2007). He has published articles in _American Literature_, _Comparative American Studies_, _Journal of American Studies_, _Mississippi Quarterly_, and other journals.

He is currently writing about literary representations of the U.S. South in transnational contexts (with a particular focus on migrant labor) by authors including Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Erna Brodber, Russell Banks, and Cynthia Shearer. His other main research interest at present is representations of biracial identity in American literature.

He has served on the executive council of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature (SSSL), and is the founding editor of the SSSL-sponsored H-Net discussion network H-Southern-Lit: 
http://www.h-net.org/~southlit/

He is the University of Copenhagen steering committee member for the international, interdisciplinary research project "Understanding the South, Understanding Modern America." The project is a collaborative venture between Copenhagen and the University of Manchester (England), the University of Florida (U.S.), and the University of Cambridge (England):
http://arts.stage.manchester.ac.uk/southnetwork/ and
 
He is the vice-president of the Danish Association for American Studies. He headed the organizing committee for the 2009 biannual conference of the Nordic Association for American Studies: http://naas2009.hum.ku.dk

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Address: Dr. Martyn Bone
Associate Professor of American Literature
Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies
Faculty of Humanities
Njalsgade 128
University of Copenhagen
2300 Copenhagen S.
Denmark

Telephone: +45 35 32 85 96 (office)