Biography
Martyn Bone is associate professor (on the professor-track program) of American literature at the University of Copenhagen. He was previously associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi and lecturer in American studies at the University of Nottingham.
Martyn's main research areas are the literature and culture of the U.S. South, African American literature, and transnational American studies.
Martyn's most recent monograph is The Writings of Jesmyn Ward: Matters of Black Southern Life and Death (University of Iowa Press, 2025). He is also the author of Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales (University of Georgia Press, 2018) and The Postsouthern Sense of Place in Contemporary Fiction (Louisiana State University Press, 2005).
Martyn is the editor of Perspectives on Barry Hannah (University Press of Mississippi, 2007) and co-editor of the University Press of Florida "Understanding the South" mini-series: Creating Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century South (2013); The American South in the Atlantic World (2013); and Creating and Consuming the American South (2015).
Martyn has contributed chapters to books including Jesmyn Ward: New Critical Essays (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), A History of the Literature of the U.S. South (Cambridge University Press, 2021), The Oxford Handbook of the Literature of the U.S. South (Oxford University Press, 2016), the New Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and the Cambridge Companion to American Fiction after 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2011). His articles have appeared in American Literature, Journal of American Studies, CR: New Centennial Review, African American Review, The Global South, and other journals.