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Divergent Women

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Divergent Women: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Female Deviance and Dissent

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Lorraine Rumson

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

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Abby Bentham

University of Salford, UK

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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Dedication

For the bad girls.

About the Contributors

Jane Barker is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Nipissing University, located in the Province of Ontario, Canada. She has authored numerous chapters related to the criminal justice system, and is currently co-editing with Dr D. Scharie Tavcer a third edition of the textbook entitled Women and the Criminal Justice System: A Canadian Perspective.

Abby Bentham is a Lecturer in English and Theatre at the University of Salford, UK. Her research focuses primarily on representations of aberrant psychology and transgression on stage, page and screen, and she has published on topics ranging from Dickens to Dexter. Abby's background as a true crime journalist has left her with a keen interest in conceptions of evil, the aesthetics of violence and the relationship between true crime and popular culture.

Elif Çakmak is a Masters student in the English Studies department at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She is researching the patterns of societies and changes in human understanding through revisited texts in time, and her research is on adaptations and re-appropriations of myths and tales in contemporary texts.

Tammy Dalldorf currently works as a Lecturer at Walter Sisulu University. She teaches the subject of Communication and is currently pursuing a PhD in Higher Education. She has always had a strong interest in eighteenth-century feminism and achieved an MA in Literature which specialized in the subject.

Sam George-Allen is an award-winning Author based in southern Tasmania. For more than a decade, she has worked as an editor, journalist, educator and freelance creative writer. Her first book, Witches: What Women Do Together was published by Penguin Random House in 2019 and by Melville House (USA/UK) in January 2020. Her cultural criticism and essays have appeared in dozens of publications, including the Sydney Morning Herald, Griffith Review, the Guardian, Marie Claire, The Lifted Brow, Island and Kill Your Darlings.

Naomi Govreen is a Bibliotherapist and Psychotherapist in Israel. Her main research interest is the potential use of fairy tales in therapeutic situations and in psychoanalytic theory. Her PhD dissertation (2020) was on ‘Representations of motherhood in fairy tales and in psychoanalytic theory’ and her Pre-Doctoral Thesis (2013) was on ‘Rescue Fantasies in treatment and fairy tales’. She teaches at Kibbutzim College in the Bibliotherapy master's degree programme, works as a therapist with adolescents and adults, supervises trained therapists regarding their clinical work and supervises therapists studying psychotherapy in a psychoanalytic approach, at the Israeli Winnicott Centre. She is an active member of The Israeli Association for Creative Arts Therapies (YAHAT).

Simmone Howell is an award-winning Melbourne-based writer of books for young adults (Notes From the Teenage Underground, Girl Defective). She is a current PhD candidate at La Trobe University, researching teenage dream lives. In between teaching and freelance writing, she works as a creative writer for a national youth mental health organization. www.simmonehowell.com.au

Catherine Jenkins teaches Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University, and has taught communication skills to healthcare students and professionals at the University of Toronto. Her medical humanities research explores the impact of medical imaging technologies on patient-practitioner communication, and the medicalization of comic book superheroes. Reflecting the Medical Gaze, a revised version of her dissertation, is currently under peer review. This chapter marks the start of her research into a larger project on the remembrance of witches in contemporary society. In addition to her literary career, she has published numerous peer-reviewed papers, including “Curing Venice's plagues: pharmacology and witchcraft” in Postmedieval: Medievalism and the Medical Humanities (2017). She completed her PhD in the joint graduate programme for Communication and Culture at Ryerson-York Universities in Toronto, and holds an MA in Cultural Studies, as well as an Honours BA in Cultural Studies and Philosophy from Trent University in Peterborough, Canada.

Bec Kavanagh is a Melbourne-based Writer and Academic whose work examines the representation of women's bodies in literature. She has appeared at the Melbourne and Sydney Writers Festivals and on Radio National's Books and Arts Daily. Bec is the Youth Programs Manager at the Wheeler Centre. She has written fiction and non-fiction for a number of publications including Westerly, Meanjin, Review of Australian Fiction and the Shuffle anthology. She is a PhD candidate at La Trobe University, Melbourne.

Soonbae Kim is an Associate Professor at the Department of English Language & Literature at Chungbuk National University, South Korea. His main research interests include gender-based criticism and theory, ontology of literature, digital literature, graphic narrative, form and stylistics, and literary aesthetics. He has published Mobility Technology and Textual Aesthetics (2020, joint work, in Korean), Humanity and Human Education (2019, joint work, in Korean) and numerous articles.

Moy McCrory is a Writer and Academic. Author of four books of fiction, two were serialized by the BBC and her work has been translated into 15 languages. Her short fiction is widely anthologized and was included in the seminal Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (2002). She was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Award and was a Feminist Book Fortnight Top Ten Author, two years running, and one of the authors chosen by the UK Save our Short story Campaign Top-Twenty Recommended Reads. Dr McCrory is a Hawthornden Fellow, Senior Fellow HEA and currently Senior Lecturer at the University of Derby. She co-edited I Wouldn't Start From Here: The Second Generation Irish in Britain, a selection of articles and literature (French, McCrory & Mckay, Wild Geese Press, 2019). Her most recent publication is Strategies of Silence: Reflections on the Practice and Pedagogy of Creative Writing (ed. McCrory & Heywood, Routledge, 2021).

Lorraine Rumson is a PhD candidate in English Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, where she is researching representations of the Medieval in Victorian Jewish literature. Her secondary research is on Victorian sexuality and pornography, and her chapter ‘Kink in the Time of Sexology: An Interdisciplinary Approach to “Abnormal Sexuality” in Victorian Culture’ was recently published in the book Kink and Everyday Life. Both her doctoral and additional research explores the power of cultural objects to complicate and write back against dominant narratives. She is a prose editor at Tint Journal and Network Director of Progressive Connexions Interdisciplinary Network.

Sylvia Tloti is a Communication Lecturer at Walter Sisulu University. Her main interest is English Literature which she has taught for many years both at High School and University level. She holds a BA (Hons) and is currently working on the research component for an MA in Pan-African Letters.

Acknowledgements

Thanks must go to Progressive Connexions, whose international gatherings have proved a fertile breeding ground for interdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. Rob Fisher and Susanne Schotanus have proved to be indefatigable champions of the work we've been doing on Evil Women: Women and Evil, generously providing support and insight at every step of the way. Thanks, too, to Mike Ferreira, our man in Prague, and to Liza Blackwell, for editorial support in the earliest days of this undertaking. Finally, we must acknowledge the magnificent contributions of all the delegates at the 2019 second Global Conference on Evil Women: Women and Evil; their brilliant scholarship was the starting point for the conversations that grew into this volume and for that we are thankful.