Jan Borm
Jan Borm is Full Professor in British Literature and Director of the research laboratory CEARC (Culture, Environment, Arctic, Representation, Climate) at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has published widely on travel writing in English, French, and German. The co-editor of Bruce Chatwin's posthumous volume Anatomy of Restlessness (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996) and author of the portrait Jean Malaurie, un homme singulier (Paris: editions du Chene, 2005), he has also co...See more
Jan Borm is Full Professor in British Literature and Director of the research laboratory CEARC (Culture, Environment, Arctic, Representation, Climate) at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. He has published widely on travel writing in English, French, and German. The co-editor of Bruce Chatwin's posthumous volume Anatomy of Restlessness (London: Jonathan Cape, 1996) and author of the portrait Jean Malaurie, un homme singulier (Paris: editions du Chene, 2005), he has also co-edited several collective volumes including Christentum und der Naturliche Mensch/Christianisme et l'homme naturel (2010) and Savoir et pouvoir au siecle des Lumieres (editions de Paris, 2011). Benjamin Colbert is Reader in English Literature and Co-Director of the Centre for Transnational and Transcultural Research at the University of Wolverhampton, UK. He is the author of Shelley's Eye: Travel Writing and Aesthetic Vision (Ashgate, 2005), and has edited a number of essay collections and scholarly editions, including Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland (2012), Women's Travel Writings in Post-Napoleonic France, vols. 5-8 (Pickering and Chatto, 2012), and British Satire 1785-1840, vol. 3 (Pickering and Chatto, 2003). He is currently leading a major database project, British Travel Writing 1780-1840, from which a pilot, Women's Travel Writing 1780-1840, has been published online in 2014. See less