Kai MertenKai Merten is a Professor of British Literature at the University of Erfurt, Germany. His main research and teaching interests are British literature and culture from various medial, material and global perspectives. He is the founder of the Erfurt Ntwork on New Materialism (ENNM) and has initiated co-operations in the field of New Materialist methodologies with similar research groups in Erfurt (Max-Weber-Kolleg), Weimar, Utrecht, Berlin, Aarhus, Odense, Kiel and Warsaw. An application to the German Research Council (DFG) for funding within the "International Cooperations" programme for this European network is pending. Read More Read Less