Julika Griem is professor of English Literature at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She has published on orality and literacy in Joseph Conrad’s works, on the anthropological and aesthetic potential of ape and monkey figures, on narrative theory, crime fiction and urbanity, problems of genre, and questions of literary visuality. Her current work is dedicated to methodologies of contemporary literature research, the institutional dimension of philology, and to figurations of the whole.