Sanja Bahun, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies, University of Essex. She has authored 'Modernism and Melancholia: Writing as Countermourning' (2013) and edited 'Violence and Gender in the Globalized World: The Intimate and the Extimate' (2008), 'From Word to Canvas: Appropriations of Myth in Women's Aesthetic Production' (2009), 'Myth and Violence in the Contemporary Female Text: New Cassandras' (2011), and 'Language, Ideology, and the Human: New Interventions' (2012).