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Bettina Jansen
Bettina Jansen is a research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of English Literature at TU Dresden, Germany, where she has been awarded a Ph.D. for a thesis on the contemporary black British short story. Apart from the short story and British short fiction in particular, Bettina’s research interests include postcolonial theories and literatures, literary negotiations of community, black British literature, as well as literary constructions of gender – both of femininity and masculinity. Bettina has published several essays on black British short fiction in academic journals like Literary London Journal and Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies and in anthologies such as Configuring Masculinity in Theory and Literary Practice (Rodopi 2015, ed. Stefan Horlacher). She co-edited the first German-language handbook on masculinity studies, Männlichkeit: Ein interdisziplinäres Handbuch (Metzler 2016). Her monograph Narratives of Community in the Black British Short Story (2018) has recently appeared with Palgrave Macmillan.
