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Heike Bartel
Heike Bartel is associate professor of German studies at the University of Nottingham (since 2000) with publications in the field of eighteenth, twentieth and twenty-first-century German-language literature. Her work has also a strong comparative and interdisciplinary angle and she has published widely on the mythical figure of Medea, the infamous infanticidal mother, and on representations of ‘mad’ mothers in literature and culture. Heike has a keen interest in representations of mental health issues and eating disorders in literature and culture and is currently heading an AHRC research network ‘Hungry for Words: An interdisciplinary approach to articulating, communicating and understanding male anorexia’. She is also co-organizer of a project entitled ‘Women Writing Rape’.