Memory studies has moved from the cultural collective, rooted within the bounds of the nation state, to the transnational or transcultural, which in recent years has come to account for the circulation of “memory cultures” in an increasingly complex, globalised and violent world. In what follows, the essays in this special issue on Transnational Memory and Traumatic Histories are briefly introduced and contextualised within this transcultural framework.

Managing and article editors

Christina Brennan & Joseph Ford (University of Leeds)

Board of peer reviewers 

Dr Patrick Crowley (University College Cork)

Dr Claire Launchbury (University of New South Wales)

Dr Helen Finch (University of Leeds)

Dr Cathy Gelbin (University of Manchester)

Prof. Bill Niven (University of Nottingham, Trent)

Dr Anna Lena Sandberg (University of Copenhagen)

Prof. Max Silverman (University of Leeds)