Anita McChesney

McChesney's scholarly research focuses on intersections between narrative forms and the media in 19th-21st century Austrian and German literature and culture. She has authored articles on narrative aspects in contemporary literature, including essays on Peter Handke's detective narratives, and on media, narration, and Austrian history in Gerhard Roth, Christoph Ransmayr, and W.G. Sebald. McChesney is currently writing a book project on the detective novel. This comparative and interdisciplinary study examines constructs of truth and probability in detective narratives from German Romanticism to 20th-century Austrian literature.