Art in Contemporary Anglo-American Fiction: The Ekphrastic Novel

Sofie Behluli, Advanced Postdoctoral Researcher, English Department, University of Bern

Sofie Behluli is an advanced postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern, Switzerland, where she teaches and conducts research on ’Dis/affection in 19th-Century American Literature’. Prior to holding this post, she completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford. Dr Behluli is interested in intermediality and ekphrasis studies, affect theory, life writing, gender studies and feminist literature, and theoretical conceptions of the ’contemporary’. Her work has been published in Women: A Cultural Review (2021), Anglia: Journal of English Philology (2022), and Contemporary Literary Criticism (2023), as well as in several companions and handbooks.