Gender, sexuality and the body in comedy: performance, reiteration, resistance

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Helen Davies

Helen Davies is the Head of English and Creative Writing at Newman University, Birmingham. She is the author of Gender and Ventriloquism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Fiction: Passionate Puppets (2012, Palgrave Macmillan) and Neo-Victorian Freakery: The Cultural Afterlife of the Victorian Freak Show (2015, Palgrave Macmillan). She has published widely in relation to neo-Victorianism and the politics of gender, sexuality, and disability, and is co-editor (with Sarah Ilott) of Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak (forthcoming 2018, Palgrave Macmillan).

Sarah Ilott

Sarah Ilott is a Lecturer in Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. She is the author of New Postcolonial British Genres: Shifting the Boundaries (2015, Palgrave Macmillan). Sarah has published widely in the fields of postcolonialism, the gothic, and comedy studies and is co-editor (with Helen Davies) of Comedy and the Politics of Representation: Mocking the Weak (forthcoming 2018, Palgrave Macmillan).