Thomas Beebee

Beebee’s fields of specialization include criticism and theory, epistolarity, eighteenth-century literature, translation (theory, practice, and literary mimesis), mental maps in literature, and law and literature. Publications include Clarissa on the Continent (Penn State Press 1991), The Ideology Of Genre (Penn State Press 1994), Epistolary Fiction in Europe (Cambridge UP 1999), Millennial Literatures of the Americas, 1492 – 2002 (2008); Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (Purdue UP 2008). His most recent books are Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (Continuum 2011), Transmesis: Inside Translation’s Black Box (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2012), and the edited volume German Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is currently working on issues of bibliotherapy, bibliotrauma, and belief.