Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker

Visiting Fellow in English and Creative Writing

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Dr Jamie Bernthal-Hooker (J.C. Bernthal) is a writer and academic with special interests in crime fiction and queer theory. In particular, he is an internationally recognised authority on Agatha Christie, and in 2020 was awarded the George N. Dove Award by the American Popular Culture Association for outstanding contributions to the serious study of crime writing. He has taught Creative Writing and English Literature at the Universities of Exeter, Cambridge, Bristol, and Middlesex and sits on the editorial boards of Literature Compass and Clues: A Journal of Detection.

Jamie’s books include Queering Agatha Christie (2016), Agatha Christie: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction (2022) and numerous edited volumes including the Edgar-nominated Bloomsbury Handbook to Agatha Christie (2022, with Mary Anna Evans).

Jamie is also a prize-winning author of short fiction, whose comic mysteries have reached an international audience.