Tiina Mäntymäki holds a PhD in Language and Culture from the University of Linköping (Sweden).Marinella Rodi-Risberg holds a PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies (English) from the University of Vaasa (Finland).Anna Foka holds a PhD in Classical Studies and Ancient History from the University of Liverpool (United Kingdom).

• Contents: Anna Foka: Beyond Deviant: Theodora as the Other in Byzantine Imperial Historiography – Wang Lei: Ghosts and Spirits as the objet a in Pu Songling’s Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio – Sanna Karkulehto/Ilmari Leppihalme: Deviant Will to Knowledge: The Pandora Myth and Its Feminist Revisions – Tiina Mäntymäki: Carnivalesque Masquerade. Lisbeth Salander and Her Trickster Agency – Marinella Rodi-Risberg: Trauma and Contextual Factors in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees: Incest, Race and Gendered Subjectivities – Caroline Enberg: «Baby Killer!» - Media Constructions of a Culturally Congruent Identity for Casey Anthony as Mother and Female Offender – Maj-Britt Höglund: The Absent Female Rotarian in Finland: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Rotary Norden – Anka Ryall: A Deviant in the Arctic – Gerald Porter: «Foremost in Violence and Ferocity»: Women Singing at Work in Britain – Róisín Ní Ghallóglaigh/Sandra Joyce: «Threshing in the Haggard to her Heart’s Delight»: Women and Erotic Expression in Irish Traditional Song.