Biography

PhD in English Literature ( University of Glasgow )
MSc in Writing and Cultural Politics ( University of Edinburgh )
MA in English and Scottish Literature ( University of Glasgow )

Churnjeet Kaur Mahn has recently joined the department after teaching at the University of Glasgow . She is currently completing a book project entitled Journeys in the Palimpsest: British Women's Travel to Greece 1840-1914 , which leads into a new project on politicised critiques of Hellenism as a commonsense standard for culture in the period 1890-1950. She is interested in women's writing from Romanticism to Modernism and has a special interest in Queer literature and culture from the Victorian period to the present day.

Research Interests

• Postcolonial Studies
• Gender & Queer Studies
• Reception of the Classics in British & Indian Culture
• Representations of Modern Greece in British Writing
• Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing
• Travel Literature/Tourism Studies
• Contemporary British Asian Fiction

Publications

Selected Journal Articles and Chapters

‘Romantic Horizons: Antique Modernity in the Guidebook to Scotland’ in Inventing Scotland : New readings of the Cultural Canon, ed. Lyndsay Lunan, Kirsty A. Macdonald and Carla Sassi (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2008)

‘Sculpture in the Harem: Felicia Skene's Greek Women,’ in Women Writing Greece: A Collection of Critical Essays ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi ( Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008)

‘Travel in the Palimpset: Discursive Continuity in the Modern Travel text to Greece,’ in Journal of Intercultural Studies (Forthcoming)