Narratives of Hope and Despair: Ruin and Regeneration in Literature and Culture (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781041107583)

Johanna M. Wagner is Professor of English at Østfold University College in Norway. She publishes in American and British literature, women's literature, modernism, and film. Her theoretical interests lie at the intersections of gender/sexuality, feminism, affect, critical race theory, and metaphysics. Her last co-edited project was Women and Fairness (2021).

Melanie Duckworth is Associate professor of English Literature at Østfold University College, Norway. She publishes in the fields of children's literature, Australian literature, and ecocriticism. Her most recent co-edited volume is Storying Plants in Australian Children's and Young Adult Literature: Roots and Winged Seeds (2023).

Deanna Benjamin teaches college and creative writing at Washington University in St. Louis, USA. Her creative work is forthcoming in Thinble Magazine and MacQueen's Quinterly Review and can be read in The Texas Review and has appeared in Brevity, Flash Boulevard, and other venues. Her critical essay "Writing Someone Else's Story" appears in Women and Fairness (2021).