Popular Ghosts: The Haunted Spaces of Everyday Culture

Esther Peeren is Assistant Professor in Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has published articles on Mikhail Bakhtin, queer television, translation theory and the chronotopic dimension of diaspora. Her first book, entitled Intersubjectivities and Popular Culture: Bakhtin and Beyond appeared in 2007 with Stanford University Press and she also co-edited a collection of essays entitled The Shock of the Other: Situating Alterities (2007). Currently, she is developing a project on spectrality in contemporary literature, television and film.

María del Pilar Blanco is Lecturer in Spanish American Literature, Santander Fellow and Tutor in Spanish, at Trinity College, and Associate Lecturer in Spanish at Worcester College, University of Oxford, UK. She has published on the haunted landscapes of the Americas, and is beginning work on a project dealing with the interface between scientific invention and poetic inventio in the works of fin-de-siècle Spanish American authors.