New Book: Trauma by Lucy Bond and Stef Craps

Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium. Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Cultural Memory Studies Initiative. His research interests lie in twentieth-century and contemporary literature and culture, memory and trauma studies, postcolonial theory, and ecocriticism and environmental humanities. Stef Craps Curriculum Vitae 2016-03-22 Department of Literary Studies (English Studies) Ghent University, Blandijnberg 2, B-9000 Gent, Belgium +32 496 83 95 71 - stef.craps@ugent.be - www.stefcraps.com EDUCATION PhD, English Literature, University of Leuven, Belgium, 2003 MA, Women and Literature in English, University of Hull, UK, 2000.

Introduction: ecological grief (2020) Stef Craps (UGent) Grief as a doorway to love: an Interview with Chris Jordan (2020) Stef Craps (UGent), Ida Marie Olsen. Stef Craps is a research professor in English literature at Ghent University, where he directs the Centre for Literature and Trauma (LITRA). He is the author of Trauma and Ethics in the Novels of Graham Swift: No Short-Cuts to Salvation (Sussex Academic Press, 2005) and Postcolonial Witnessing: Trauma Out of Bounds (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming), and has served as guest editor for special.

Trauma has become a catchword of our time and a central category in contemporary theory and criticism. In this illuminating and accessible volume, Lucy Bond and Stef Craps:

• provide an account of the history of the concept of trauma from the late nineteenth century to the present day
• examine debates around the term in their historical and cultural contexts
• trace the origins and growth of literary trauma theory
• introduce the reader to key thinkers in the field
• explore important issues and tensions in the study of trauma as a cultural phenomenon
• outline and assess recent critiques and revisions of cultural trauma research

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Trauma is an essential guide to a rich and vibrant area of literary and cultural inquiry.

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Lucy Bond is a principal lecturer in English literature at the University of Westminster, UK.
Stef Craps is a professor of English literature at Ghent University, Belgium.