Stewart King is Associate Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University, Australia, and is an elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities. Originally trained in Spanish and Catalan literary studies, since 2013 he has pioneered the study of crime fiction as world literature. He is the lead chief investigator for this project and is the lead investigator of the "Crime Fiction and the Climate Emergency" case study.
In crime fiction studies, he is the author of Murder in the Multinational State: Crime Fiction from Spain (Routledge, 2019) and editor or co-editor of Criminal Moves: Modes of Mobility in Crime Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2019), The Routledge Companion to Crime Fiction (2020), winner of the 2020 ICFA Book prize, The Cambridge Companion to World Crime Fiction (2022), Crime Fiction and Indigeneity (forthcoming 2025), and the journal Crime Fiction Studies (Edinburgh University Press).Â
You can contact Stewart at stewart.king@monash.edu