MICHAEL MEYER is Professor of English and American Literatures in
the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of
Koblenz–Landau. He is the author of a phenomenological study of the
poetry of Charles Tomlinson (1990), a study of autobiography and
intertextuality in Gibbon, Mill, and Ruskin (1998), and an
introduction to English and American literature (4th ed. 2011). He
has published two collections on teaching literature (1994, 2008),
a critical edition of Salman Rushdie’s short stories East, West
(2002), and co-edited Vertrauen und Glaubwürdigkeit (Trust and
Credibility, 2005). He recently edited Word & Image in Colonial
and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures (2009) and Romantic
Explorations (2011). His current research focuses on short fiction,
visual media, colonial and postcolonial literature and culture.