Shipboard Literary Cultures Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea

Susann Liebich  is Assistant Professor of Modern History at Heidelberg University, Germany. She is a co-author of  The Transported Imagination  (Cambria Press, 2018) and has published on the history of reading and on Australian and New Zealand periodicals in the interwar period. Her current research focuses on the sea in personal writing and popular print culture. 

Laurence Publicover  is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of  Dramatic Geography  (Oxford University Press, 2017) and of several articles on early modern literature, maritime culture, and their intersections. His current research focuses on the deep sea and seabed in literary and non-literary contexts.