The book contains 28 contributions on the link(s) between academia and belles lettres. It deals with academia across time and media, represented in multiple genres and within national literatures, novels, poems, films and plays, from the 16th to the 21st century.
Ludmiła Gruszewska-Blaim is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Gdańsk. Her publications include books and edited volumes on 20th- and 21st-century literature and utopian cinema. She is co-editor of the Peter Lang series «Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives».
Merritt Moseley is a retired Professor and Department Chair of English at the University of North Carolina at Asheville. He is the author and editor of several books on contemporary British and Irish fiction.