Barry Murnane

Barry Murnane has published widely on topics from the early-1700s to the present day, but he has particular interests in literature and culture around 1800, modernism, and Gothic/fantastic literature. A comparative scholar by training, he has been interested in Franz Kafka and Prague modernism for a long time, including his book “Verkehr mit Gespenstern.” Gothic und Moderne bei Franz Kafka (2008) and the collection Popular Revenants (ed. with A. Cusack, 2012). His current research aims to develop a material(ist) history of Weltliteratur/world literature, and he will be leading on the "Worldliness" strand of Kafka's Transformative Communities.