Gerri Kimber

Gerri Kimber is an Associate Lecturer at The Open University. She is Liaison Editor of Katherine Mansfield Studies, the peer-reviewed Journal of the Katherine Mansfield Society.

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 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 an on-going contributor for the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies (ABES), specialising in both modernism and postcolonial literature.

She is Deputy-Chair of the Katherine Mansfield Society and co-organised the Katherine Mansfield Centenary Conference held in London in September 2008.

She co-organised the Mansfield Symposium held in Menton, France, in September 2009, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Katherine Mansfield Memorial Fellowship. Gerri is also on the Executive Committee of the Postcolonial Studies Association and co-organised their inaugural conference in Waterford, Ireland in May 2009