Notes on Contributors

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Lieven Ameel is senior lecturer in comparative literature at Tampere University, Finland. He holds a PhD in Finnish literature and comparative literature from the University of Helsinki and the Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany. He has published widely on literary experiences of space, narrative planning, and urban futures. His books include Helsinki in Early Twentieth-Century Literature (2014), The Narrative Turn in Urban Planning (2020), and the coedited volumes Literature and the Peripheral City (2015), Literary Second Cities (2017), The Materiality of Literary Narratives in Urban History (2019), and Literatures of Urban Possibility (2021).Sarah Copland is associate professor of English at MacEwan University. She has published work on rhetorical and cognitive approaches to narrative theory, narrative ethics, narrative theory and short story theory, the politics of form, the new modernist studies, and modernist narratives, prefaces, and poetry in Narrative, The Journal of Narrative Theory, Modernism/modernity, The Henry James Review, The European Journal of English Studies, and the edited collections Blending and the Study of Narrative (2012) and Narratology and Ideology: Encounters between Narrative Theory and Postcolonial Criticism (2018). She and Greta Olson coedited The Politics of Form (2018).Gal Hertz's field of study is the genealogy of social disciplines and the connections between literary, legal, and political knowledge in the modern German-speaking world around 1900. He completed his doctoral studies at the Cohn Institute in 2014, and his dissertation examines the work of the Viennese critic Karl Kraus. He was a Minerva post-doctorate fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin, working on “Language Criticism as Moral Criticism—Kraus, Adorno, Arendt and Brecht.” He is currently working on a book project: “Graz 1900—Human Sciences and the Politics of Normality.” He is the codirector of the Humanities in Conflict Zones Initiative, within the Minerva Humanities Center and the Jewish-Arab Cultural Studies Program at Tel Aviv University. In addition, he founded the Humanities Clinic.Liesbeth Korthals Altes (emeritus) was until March 2019 professor of literary theory and French literature at the University of Groningen (Netherlands). She published widely on narrative theory and analysis, as well as on literature and ethics. Her book Ethos and Narrative Interpretation (2014) was awarded the Perkins prize in 2016.Carsten Meiner is professor of French literature at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His publications include Les mutations de la clarté (2007), Le carrosse littéraire: L'invention du hasard (2008), The Cultural Life of Catastrophes (edited with Kristin Veel, 2012), Mutating Idylls (2019), and Literature and Contingency (edited with Tina Lupton, 2019). He is the principal investigator in a research project on topoi in French literary history at the University of Copenhagen.Kai Mikkonen is professor of comparative literature and director of the MA program in literary studies at the University of Helsinki, and a life member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. His main research interests include nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French and British literature, travel writing, comics and picture books, narrative theory and rhetorical theory of narrative, and theory of fiction. He is most recently the author of The Narratology of Comic Art (2017) and Narrative Paths: African Travel in Modern Fiction and Nonfiction (2015) as well as contributions in Frontiers of Narrative (2020), Optional-Narrator Theory (2021), and Recherche littéraire/Literary Research (2021).Christopher Patrick Miller teaches writing and literature in Portland, Oregon. He is currently at work on a critical monograph about the history and culture of transience in the American lyric, from Walt Whitman to Amiri Baraka. Recent scholarship is forthcoming or has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, Modernism/modernity, Wallace Stevens Review, and Journal of Modern Literature. He is the author of a book of poems, ARCH, written in dialogue with Vitruvius's writings on architecture (2019). He is coeditor with Lyn Hejinian of the multidisciplinary online journal Floor.James Phelan is distinguished university professor of English at the Ohio State University and the director of Project Narrative. He has served as the editor of Narrative since its inception in 1993. Phelan has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric. Among his recent publications are Debating Rhetorical Narratology (2020, with Matthew Clark) and Somebody Telling Somebody Else: A Rhetorical Poetics of Narrative (2017). In 2020 he received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.Witold Sadowski is professor of literary theory at the University of Warsaw. He has undertaken investigations into the history and theory of European versification, the history and theory of literary genres, in addition to studying the relationship between religion and literature. His book European Litanic Verse: A Different Space-Time appeared in 2018. His books in Polish include Graphic Text in Miron Białoszewski's Poetry (1998), Free Verse as a Graphic Text (2004), Litany and Poetry: On the Body of Material of Polish Literature from the Eleventh to the Twenty-First Century (2011).Ulla Savolainen (PhD, Title of Docent) works as a senior researcher at the Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki. She is a folklorist specializing in memory studies, oral history, and narrative research. She leads a research project titled “Transnational Memory Cultures of Ingrian Finns” (2020–22). Savolainen is the chair of the Finnish Oral History Network and cochair of MSA Nordic. She has published her research in Memory Studies, Oral History, Narrative Inquiry, and Journal of American Folklore.Peter Stockwell is professor of literary linguistics at the University of Nottingham and a fellow of the English Association. He has published twelve books and over ninety articles in stylistics, sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics, including Texture: A Cognitive Aesthetics of Reading (2009), Cognitive Poetics (2020), and The Language of Surrealism (2017). He coedited The Cambridge Handbook of Stylistics (2014), The Language and Literature Reader (2008), and Contemporary Stylistics (2007).