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In the final year of the project “Literary Geographies of the Monstrous” we continued to maintain and regularly update the open-access online bibliographic resource ‘Literary Geographies,’ adding citations and posting news about the website on twitter and facebook. As of April 2014 the website had attracted about 20,000 page views. Building on the success of the online bibliography, in the fall of 2013 we launched the international open-access e-journal Literary Geographies, managed by five editors (based in Japan, the UK and Finland) whose disciplinary specialisations are equally divided between literary studies and geography. The journal has in addition fifteen editorial board members, with institutional affiliations in nine countries, ranging from Zimbabwe to Australia. Individually, grant collaborators also produced a range of publications. Kneale, for example, contributed a chapter to an edited collection on The Transgressive Iain Banks: Essays on a Writer Beyond Borders. Meanwhile, Hones contributed a chapter on “The Literary Dimension,” to the interdisciplinary collection Global City Challenges: Debating a Concept, Improving the Practice. Yaguchi continued his research on museum representations while Sunada pursued her work on the American representation of Japanese monstrosity. In addition, Hones completed a book-length manuscript, Literary Geographies: Narrative Space in Let the Great World Spin, which is forthcoming (August 2014) from Palgrave Macmillan.
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