Notes on Contributors

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Elizabeth Allen is professor and chair of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her book Uncertain Refuge: Sanctuary in Medieval English Literature was published in October 2021. Her essays have appeared in JMEMS, New Medieval Literatures, Speculum, Studies in the Age of Chaucer, and elsewhere.Katra Byram is associate professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the Ohio State University. Her research centers on narrative theory and German literature from the late nineteenth century to the present, seeking to understand how historically and culturally marked identities and experiences take shape in particular linguistic and narrative forms. Her publications include a book, Ethics and the Dynamic Observer Narrator: Reckoning with Past and Present in German Literature (2015), and recent articles on gender, genre, and post–World War II memory culture in Germany and on tiny house blogs and the Bildungsroman.Sabine Gross is Griebsch Bascom Professor of German at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research areas include textual materiality, the reading process, Bertolt Brecht, the detective genre, narratology and stylistics, image-text relations, the human experience of time, theater and performance, and perception and synesthesia. She has published over fifty articles and a number of edited and authored volumes. The most recent are Herausforderung der Literaturwissenschaft: Droste-Hülshoffs ‘Judenbuche’ (coauthored with Ulrich Gaier, 2018) and “Rhythm,” a special issue of Monatshefte coedited with Hannah Eldridge (2021).Dr. JuEunhae Knox recently completed her PhD thesis at the University of Glasgow, pioneering a comparison of digital and traditional poetry in light of new labor capitalism and consumerism through the lens of literary naturalism. Her thesis is the first of its kind to examine Instapoetry in correlation with poe(t/m)-tagging on a visually commodified branding platform such as Instagram, with reference to new labor issues in the context of post-Marxian capitalism. She is collaborating with Dr. James Mackay on the world's first collection of critical Instapoetry essays published by Bloomsbury. They are also writing a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on international Instapoetry, having led the inaugural global conference #Reading Instapoetry in July 2020, the first of its kind on this subject. This completely online conference won both the Chancellor's Fund Grant and the Community PGR Reward for its innovation and relevance, and has paved the way for multiple panels and conference roundtables with the American Literature Association, Poetics and Linguistics Association, and British Association of American Studies, where she has now served as both peer editor and article contributor. Dr. Knox also created the WorthaThousand Instapoetry Project with the Hunterian and the University of Glasgow Archives and Special Collections.Susan S. Lanser is professor emerita of comparative literature, English, and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Brandeis University. Her book publications include The Narrative Act, Fictions of Authority, The Sexuality of History, and the coedited (with Robyn Warhol) Narrative Theory Unbound. Lanser is past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. She received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.Ignasi Ribó is assistant professor of comparative literature at the School of Liberal Arts, Mae Fah Luang University (Chiang Rai, Thailand). His research deals with issues in the environmental humanities, bridging across the interdisciplinary fields of ecosemiotics, ecocriticism, and human ecology. He is the author of Habitat: The Ecopolitical Nation (2012) and a contributor to the edited collection Southeast Asian Ecocriticism: Theories, Practices, Prospects (2017). He has also published the textbook Prose Fiction: An Introduction to the Semiotics of Narrative (2019), as well as five novels and several academic essays in various international journals.Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is professor emerita of English and comparative literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. Her book publications include The Concept of Ambiguity—The Example of James (1977), Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics (1983; rev. ed. 2002), and A Glance beyond Doubt (1996). She is the 2019 recipient of the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.Peter Smyth is a PhD candidate in the history of art at the Ohio State University. The focus of his research is the relationship between comics, literature, and painting.