Exploring the far-reaching theoretical and cultural importance of the fantastic this volume illuminates interdisciplinary approaches.

The fantastic represents a wide and heterogeneous field in literary, cultural, and media studies. Encompassing some of the field's foremost voices such as Fred Botting and Larissa Lai, as well as exciting new perspectives by junior scholars, this volume offers a mosaic of the fantastic now. The contributions pinpoint and discuss current developments in theory and practice by offering enlightening snapshots of the contemporary Anglophone landscape of research in the fantastic. The authors' arguments and analyses thus give new impetus to the field's theoretical and methodological approaches, its textual materials, its main interests, and its crucial findings.

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Ina Batzke teaches American studies at the English seminar of the University of Münster and is a PhD student at the graduate school Practices of Literature. Her research interests include migration and refugee literature, life writing, law and literature, and ethnic studies. Eric C. Erbacher is a lecturer in American studies at the University of Münster. His research interests include urban studies, media studies, and cultural studies, with a focus on the intersection of these fields with issues of visual culture, especially photography, popular culture, and class. Linda M. Heß is a lecturer and postdoctoral candidate at the Institute of English and American Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Her main research and teaching interests are located in the fields of queer studies, aging studies, science fiction, modernism, and gender studies. Corinna Lenhardt is a research assistant and lecturer in American studies at the University of Münster. Her research and teaching interests include ethnic studies, digital cultures, race, gender, and Gothic fiction.