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Prof Tim Youngs is the Director of the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, which he founded in 2002-3. He has specialised in the field for nearly 30 years, although he also undertakes teaching and research in many other areas of United States literature (especially African American writing), post-1800 English Literature, and postcolonial writing. His most recent single-authored books include The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing and Beastly Journeys: Travel and Transformation at the fin de Siècle (both 2013). He is currently co-editing The Cambridge History of Travel Writing with Nandini Das and The Ashgate Research Companion to Travel Writing with Alasdair Pettinger, as well as writing a book on motorcycle travel narratives. Besides his own publications on travel writing, his contributions to travel writing studies include:

• The founding in 1997 of the journal Studies in Travel Writing (now published four times a year by Routledge), which he continues to edit

• The launching of the Borders and Crossings series of international conferences (inaugurated with Glenn Hooper in 1998)
• The co-organisation of many international conferences on travel writing, including the ISTW's 2010 conference at the University of South Carolina.
• The establishment and continuing editorship with Peter Hulme of the monograph series Routledge Research in Travel Writing

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Further information can be found at http://timyoungs.weebly.com/.

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