Introduction: Transnational Representations of the Region, 1840-1940

Christopher Cusack is an assistant professor at Radboud University, where he was awarded his PhD in 2018. He recently completed a postdoctoral project on local colour in Irish American and German American writing. His research has appeared in a wide range of edited volumes and journals, including Irish Studies Review, New Hibernia Review, Open Library of Humanities, and Atlantic Studies and he has co-edited several books, most recently The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature (Liverpool up, forthcoming). His first monograph, The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921, is under contract with Liverpool University Press.

Sophie van Os is an Information Specialist at the School of Management as well as a PhD Candidate at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Her thesis, which is part of the nwo-funded vici project Redefining the Region: The Transnational Dimensions of Local Colour examines the transnational dimensions of the region in European illustrated periodicals from the long nineteenth century. Van Os, moreover, is involved in the European Society for Periodical Research and the Research Society of Victorian Periodicals, and she is the International Representative (Europe) of the Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland. She has published in Victorian Periodicals Review, De Moderne Tijd and Review of Irish Studies in Europe.

Anneloek Scholten is a lecturer in English Literature at Utrecht University. She wrote her PhD dissertation at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as part of the nwo-funded vici project Redefining the Region: The Transnational Dimensions of Local Colour. Her dissertation considers the transregional and transnational dimensions of Dutch regional fiction from the period 1843-1919. She is co-editor of a special issue of De Moderne Tijd (2022) which concerns representations of soil in the nineteenth-century Low Countries, and has published in Dutch Crossing and Journal of European Periodical Studies. For her MA thesis on modernist print drama, entitled ‘The Periodical as a Playhouse: Modernist Drama in the Little Magazines’, she was awarded the 2020 Herman Servotte Prize.