The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin.
James Martell is Associate Professor of French at Lyon College, USA. He specializes in French literary theory, aesthetics, and philosophy.
Erik Larsen is Assistant Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Rochester, USA. He writes and teaches about biopolitics, medicine and literature, and American culture.