Series editors

Dr Brenda Mathijssen, Rijksuniversiteit, Groningen (NL) and Dr Julie Rugg, University of York (UK). 

The new Routledge book series Accommodating the Dead will publish works exploring the evolving and multifaceted subject of the dead body, and the diversity of engagements with the materiality of human remains. The dead body has an undeniable thereness but can evade direct scrutiny, and this series aims to deliver a sharper focus. The dead body demands care, treatment, placement, and ritual. Responses to these demands evolve over time and are shaped by religion, politics, science, and economics. The book series will engage with these responses, creating a coherent yet multifaceted commentary on the core subject.

Book proposals are sought that critically interrogate foundational concepts, including what it means to be “dead,” what constitutes a “dead body” in funerary practice, and how disposing the dead can and should be understood in different social, legal, and technological contexts. The series seeks monographs and edited collections that are single- or multi-disciplinary and invites submissions from across the globe. 

Please send your book proposal form to Brenda.Mathijssen@rg.nl & julierugg36@gmail.com

Editorial Board

Professor Anne Allison, Duke University (US)
Dr Carlton Basmaijan, Iowa State University (US)
Dr Hannah Gould, University of Melbourne (AU)
Dr Christien Klaufus, University of Amsterdam (NL)
Dr Sonja Kmec, University of Luxembourg (Lux)
Dr Olga Nešporová, Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ)
Dr Phil Olson, Virginia Tech, US
Professor Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US
Professor Auli Vähäkangas, University of Helsinki (FI)
Dr Staci Zavattaro, University of Central Florida (US)