saramago@uchicago.edu

Field : Latin American Literature

Research areas : Luso-Brazilian Literature ; Ecocriticism

Relevant publications

O Duplo do Pai: o filho e a ficção de Cristovão Tezza. São Paulo: É Realizações, 2013.

“Transatlantic Sertões: the Backlands of Ruy Duarte de Carvalho and Mia Couto.” Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, v. 8, n. 1, University of Alcalá, Madrid, 2017. pp. 79-97.

“The Sailor and the Migrant: Discourses of the Capibaribe River in João Cabral de Melo Neto’s O Rio.” Letterature D’America, Anno XXXVI, n. 160, University of Rome “La Sapienza,” Rome, 2016. pp. 41-69.

“Ecos de piedras y ecos de palabras: los espacios de Pedro Páramo.” Pedro Páramo: 60 años. Edited by Víctor Jiménez. México, D.F.: Fundación Juan Rulfo, RM, 2015. pp. 151-162

“Sertão Dentro: The Backlands in Early Modern Portuguese Writings.” Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies, v. 27, Dartmouth, MA, 2014.

See also https://rll.uchicago.edu/faculty/saramago

kotakaha@dwc.doshisha.ac.jp

Field: Japanese Literature

Research areas: Japanese modern literature and theories about it

julieorlemanski@uchicago.edu

Field: medieval literature

https://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/julie-orlemanski

norsk@cc.au.dk

Field: Narratology / Literature.

Research areas: Contemporary literature, Autobiography, Narratology, Poetry, Literary Theory.

Relevant publications

“Lyric Poetry as anti-mimetic bridging in Narratives and Motion Pictures. A Case Study of The Affective Response to Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (2014).” Robyn Warhol (ed. et al) The Edinburgh Companion to Narrative Theory. Edinburgh UP, 2018.

“Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle: A Real Life in a Novel.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 31.3, 553-579. With Arnaud Schmitt, Bordeaux University, 2016.

“Getting People Right. Getting Fiction Right. Self-Fashioning, Fictionality, and Ethics in the Roth Books.” JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory 46.1, 121-148, 2016.

“In the Waiting Room. Narrative in the autobiographical lyric poem, or beginning to think about lyric poetry with narratology.” Narrative 22.2, 185-202, 2014.

“The Medium Is Also The Message: Narrating Media in Bret Easton Ellis’s Glamorama.” Style 45.4, 619-637, 2012.

See also http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/norsk@cc.au.dk

asj@uchicago.edu

Field : Literary studies

Research areas: Twentieth and twenty-first-century French literature, experimental writing, Oulipo, Georges Perec, factual literature/nonfiction.

Relevant publications:

Co-edited with Christophe Reig: Frontières de la non-fiction (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014).

Alison James, The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature, Oxford University Press, 2020.

See also https://rll.uchicago.edu/alison-james

richard.gerrig@stonybrook.edu

Field : Psycholinguistics

Relevant publications

Mumper, M. M., & Gerrig, R. J. (2017). Leisure reading and social abilities: A meta-analysis. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11, 109-120.

Bezdek, M. A., & Gerrig, R. J. (2017). When narrative transportation narrows attention: Changes in attentional focus during suspenseful film viewing. Media Psychology, 20, 60-89.

Gerrig, R. J., & Mumper, M. M. (2017). How readers’ lives affect narrative experiences. In M. Burke & E. Troscianko (Eds.), Dialogues Between Literature and Cognition (239-257). Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gerrig, R. J., Bagelmann, K. A., & Mumper, M. M. (2016). On the origins of readers’ outcome preferences. Discourse Processes, 53, 603–631.

Bezdek, M. A., Gerrig, R. J., Wenzel, W. G., Shin, J., Revill, K. P., & Schumacher, E. H. (2015). Neural evidence that suspense narrows attentional focus. Neuroscience, 303, 338-345.

Wenzel, W. G., & Gerrig, R. J. (2015). Convergent and divergent thinking in the context of narrative mysteries. Discourse Processes, 52, 489-516.

richard.walsh@york.ac.uk

Field : Literary and narrative theory

Research areas: Fictionality, rhetorical narratology, narrative cognition

Relevant publications

Novel Arguments (Cambridge University Press 1995)

The Rhetoric of Fictionality: Narrative Theory and the Idea of Fiction (Ohio State University Press, 2007)

(ed. with Divya Dwivedi and Henrik Skov Nielsen) Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives (Ohio State University Press, 2018)

(ed. with Susan Stepney) Narrating Complexity (Springer, 2018)

See also: University webpage: https://pure.york.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/richard-walsh(ccc319e8-8d70-493f-80ff-f06c14cf63bd).html

Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies: http://www.york.ac.uk/narrative-studies/

Academia.edu page: https://york.academia.edu/RichardWalsh

victoriaggarcia@gmail.com

Field:  Literary Studies

Research areas : Testimony and literature; Fact and fiction; Literary genres; Aesthetics and Politics

Relevant publications

García, V. (2017). “Fingimiento y ficción en la narrativa argentina sobre los años 70”. El taco en la brea 6: 56-85.

García, V. (2017). “Literatura testimonial en Argentina: un itinerario histórico (1957-2012)”. Cuadernos del CILHA 18 (1): 11-43.

García, V. (2017). “Teoría (y) política de la ficción”. Badebec. Estudios críticos 13: 212-239.

García, V. (2016). “Testimonio y ficción en la Argentina de la postdictadura. Los relatos del sobreviviente testigo”. Revista Chilena de Literatura 93: 73-100.

García, V. (2015). “Testimonio y literatura. Algunas reflexiones y tres realizaciones en la narrativa argentina: Walsh, Urondo, Cortázar (1957-1974)”. Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural 6: 11-38.

García, V. (2012). “Testimonio latinoamericano: una reconsideración histórica del género”. Exlibris. Revista del Departamento de Letras 1: 371-389.

See also https://conicet-ar.academia.edu/VictoriaGarcia

eric.avocat@let.osaka-u.ac.jp

Discipline : Littérature française

Champs de recherche : Théâtre, éloquence, fictions historiques (Révolution française)

laurent.bazin@uvsq.fr

Discipline : Lettres modernes

Champs de recherche : Adolescence et fiction / Littératures de l’imaginaire

simon.brean@sorbonne-universite.fr

Discipline : Littérature française

Champs de recherche : Théorie de la fiction ; romans ; XXe et XXIe siècles

Voir aussi https://simonbrean.wordpress.com

chalvon@ehess.fr

Discipline : sociologie

Champs de recherche : séries télévisées

sho710@nifty.com

Field : Philosophy, History of Ideas

Research areas : Enlightenment (esp. German)

npaige@berkeley.edu  

Field : French literature

Research areas: Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French literature and culture; history and theory of the novel; quantitative literary history and digital humanities; aesthetics and image theory; subjectivity and autobiography.

Relevant publications :

“Pseudofactuality.” Handbook of Narrative Factuality, ed. Monika Fludernik and Marie-Laure Ryan. (Berlin: Gruyter, forthcoming)

“The Artifactuality of Narrative Form: First-Person Novels in France, 1650-1830” (Poetics Today, 2018)

“Examples, Samples, Signs: An Artifactual View of Fictionality in the French Novel, 1681-1830” (NLH, 2017)

Before Fiction:  The Ancien Régime of the Novel (U Penn Press, 2011)

See also : https://berkeley.academia.edu/NicholasPaige

marianim@uchicago.edu                                   

Field : Italian Studies, Comparative Literature

Research areas : theory of literary genres, trauma studies, Holocaust studies, memory studies.

Relevant publications :

Primo Levi e Anna Frank. Tra testimonianza e letteratura (Primo Levi and Anne Frank. Between Testimony and Literature), Carocci 2018.

Sull’autobiografia contemporanea. Nathalie Sarraute, Elias Canetti, Alice Munro, Primo Levi (On Contemporary Autobiography. Nathalie Sarraute, Elias Canetti, Alice Munro, Primo Levi), Carocci 2012.

lisa.zunshine@gmail.com   

Field : Literature

Research areas: Cognitive approaches to literature, Eighteenth-Century British Literature, Narrative, Children’s Studies, Comparative Literature

Keywords: fiction, cognitive sciences, culture, mindreading, narrative, cinema, art

Relevant publications

Getting Inside Your Head: What Cognitive Science Can Tell Us About Popular Culture. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012

Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2006

 See also

https://uky.academia.edu/LisaZunshine, https://uky.academia.edu/LisaZunshine/CurriculumVitae

Jerome.Pelletier@ens.fr

Discipline : Philosophie

Domaines de recherches : Esthétique analytique ; fiction, émotion, cognition

Publications

The Pleasure of Pictures – Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation, Edited by Jérôme Pelletier & Alberto Voltolini, Routledge Research in Aesthetics, Routledge 2018

otto.pfersmann@ehess.fr

Discipline : Philosophie, Droit

Domaines de recherches : Théorie du droit (ontologie, épistémologie), problématique du statut fictionnel du droit, théories de l’interprétation, idéologies juridiques, Droit constitutionnel comparé

Publications

« Les modes de la fiction en droit et en littérature », in : Françoise Lavocat (dir.), Usages et théories de la fiction. Presses Universitaires de Rennes 2004, p. 39-61.

« La distinzione fondamentale del Law and Literature: Finzione giuridica, diritto fittizio, finzione esplicativa », in Paola Mittica (éd.) Il contributo di law & humanities nella formazione del giurista, Giapicchelli 2013. pp, 77-87.

Sekretariat.fludernik@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Discipline : Etudes anglaises

Domaines de recherches : Narratologie, Law&Literature, 18^e siècle, théorie et littérature postcoloniales

Pascal.engel@ehess.fr

Discipline : philosophie

Domaines de recherches : Théorie de la connaissance, philosophie de l’esprit, philosophie du langage

Publications : Voir https://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/1311 (accessible via Cairn)

Page personnelle : https://sites.google.com/site/pascalengelehessfr/

florian.cova@gmail.com

Discipline : Philosophie, Psychologie

Domaines de recherches : Philosophie expérimentale, éthique, esthétique

Choix de publications

Cova, F. & Pain, N. (2012). Can folk aesthetics ground aesthetic realism? The Monist, 95(2), 243-263

Cova, F. & Teroni, F. (2015). Le paradoxe de la fiction : le retour. In M. Rueff and J. Zanetta (Eds.), L’Expression des Emotions : Mélanges en l’honneur de Patrizia Lombardo. Université de Genève

Cova, F. & Garcia, A. (2015). The puzzle of multiple endings. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 73(2), 105-114

Cova, F., Garcia, A. & Liao, S. (2015). Experimental philosophy of aesthetics. Philosophy Compass, 10, 927-939

Cova, F. & Teroni, F. (2016). Is the paradox of fiction soluble in psychology? Philosophical Psychology, 29(6), 930-942

Cova, F., Deonna, J. & Sander, D. (in press). “That’s deep!”: The role of Being Moved and feeling of profundity in the appreciation of serious narratives. In T. Blake & D.R. Wehrs (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Cova, F. & 45 authors (in press). De pulchritudine non est disputandum? A cross-cultural investigation of the alleged intersubjective validity of aesthetic judgment. Mind & Language.

Cova, F. & Friend, S. (forthcoming). How does fiction elicit emotions? In J. Campbell (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Emotion Theory.Wiley-Blackwell.

dhcao@nju.edu.cn

Champs de recherche : Traductologie ; théories de la littérature

See also : www.yorku.ca/mar

See also : http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/stefan-iversen(252ccf14-9408-4585-9c5b-ffb9b415719d).html