Rachel Falconer is Professor of English Literature at the
University of Lausanne. She researches in the fields of early
modern and modern literature. She has a BA in Classical Languages
and Literatures from Yale University, and BA, MA and DPhil in
English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford.
Before moving to Lausanne in 2010, she was Professor of Modern
Literature at the University of Sheffield. Amongst her publications
are: Orpheus Dis(re)membered: Milton and the Myth of the Poet
(1997), Hell in Contemporary Literature: Western Descent Narratives
since 1945 (2005), The Crossover Novel: Children's Literature and
Its Adult Readership (2009); she has also co-edited the following
volumes: Face to Face: Bakhtin Studies in Russia and the West
(1997); Invention: Literature and Science (2005); and Re-reading/
La Relecture (2011).