Bethany Layne

Dr Bethany Layne is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, and the author of Henry James in Contemporary Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan 2020). She has published widely on biographical fiction, in journals including The Henry James Review, Woolf Studies Annual, and Adaptation. She pioneered the first specialist biofiction module in the UK, and is the editor of a collection of essays on the genre. Layne is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and holds a PhD and MA from the University of Leeds and a BA (Hons) from the University of Nottingham.