Gerri Kimber

Gerri Kimber is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University. She is Co-Editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society, published by Edinburgh University Press. Her main focus for research has two strands; firstly the field of modernism, especially Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, and the Bloomsbury group; secondly (post)colonial literature from New Zealand. She is the author of Katherine Mansfield: The View from France (2008), and A Literary Modernist: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of the Short Story (2008). She is the co-editor of Katherine Mansfield and Literary Modernism (2011) and Celebrating Katherine Mansfield: A Centenary Volume of Essays (2011). She was co-editor and contributor to Framed!  Essays in French Studies (2007). She has contributed further chapters/entries in the following books: Translation and Censorship: Arts of Interference (2008), Companion to the British Short Story and Short Fiction (2007), Encyclopaedia of Popular Fiction (2009) and General Themes in Literature (2009). Gerri has had articles published in Les Cahiers du CICLaS, British Review of New Zealand Studies, 2001 Group: Essays in French Studies, and Moveable Type. She is Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-organised the Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference held in London in September 2008, with Ian Conrich and Janet Wilson. She co-organised, in conjunction with the New Zealand Embassy in Paris, the Mansfield Symposium held in Menton, France, in September 2009, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship.