Contributors
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Jan Baetens is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is interested in word and image studies, mainly in the so-called minor genres (graphic novel, photonovella, novelization), on which he has published widely. His most recent book is Pour le roman-photo (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2010). He co-edits FPC (Formes poétiques contemporaines), and is the author of ten volumes of poetry, including one on basketball: Slam. Poèmes sur le basketball (Les Impressions Nouvelles, 2007).
Amy J. Elias teaches contemporary literature and culture studies, narrative theory, and media studies in the English Department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Founder and past president of A.S.A.P.: The Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present, she is the author of Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction (2001) and of numerous essays concerning the contemporary arts. She is currently completing book-length studies about dialogics and about retrofuturism.
Craig Fischer is an associate professor of English at Appalachian State University. His work has appeared in The Comics Journal, The International Journal of Comic Art, and Transatlantica. Forthcoming are articles on The Walking Dead and Kyle Baker's Nat Turner. Fischer was also a judge for the 2010 Eisner Awards.
Jared Gardner is Associate Professor of English and Film at Ohio State University, where he also directs the Popular Culture Studies program. He is the author of Master Plots: Race and the Founding of an American Literature (1998), The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture (forthcoming, 2011) and Projections: Comics and the History of 21st-Century Storytelling (forthcoming, 2011), as well as numerous essays on American literature, film and comics in scholarly journals as well as in The Comics Journal, for which he is a contributing writer.
Charles Hatfield, Associate Professor of English at California State University, Northridge, is the author of Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature (2005), the forthcoming Hand of Fire: The Narrative Art of Jack Kirby (2012), and numerous articles in comics studies, most recently for Transatlantica and the MLA volume Teaching the Graphic Novel (2009). He serves on the executive committee of the MLA Discussion Group on Comics and Graphic Narratives. [End Page 203]
David Herman, who serves as editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series (University of Nebraska Press) as well as of the journal Storyworlds, teaches in the English Department at Ohio State University. He has published widely in the areas of interdisciplinary narrative theory and storytelling across media.
Suzanne Keen, Thomas Broadus Professor of English, teaches contemporary fiction, narrative, and postcolonial literature at Washington and Lee University. She is guest editor of a special double issue of Poetics Today on Narrative and the Emotions.
Karin Kukkonen is currently Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. Her main research interests are cognitive approaches to literature, poetics and the novel. In the field of comics, she has published on multi-perspective storytelling, multiple storyworlds and metaphors, as well as on the impact of postmodern thinking on mainstream comics.
Pascal Lefèvre is affiliated researcher at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a past advisor to the Belgian Centre of Comic Strip Art in Brussels, and has lectured on comics and visual media at various Flemish universities. His publications include Pour une lecture moderne de la bande dessinée (with Jan Baetens), The Comic Strip in the Nineteenth Century (co-edited with Charles Dierick), Bande dessinée et illustration en Belgique. Etats des lieux et situation socio-économique du secteur (with Morgan di Salvia). He is a member of the international editorial boards of Image [&] Narrative, International Journal of Comic Art, SIGNs, European Comic Art, and Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. Currently he is researching early visual narratives, transmedia narration and hybrid fact/fiction narratives.
Lisa Zunshine is Bush-Holbrook Professor of English at the University of Kentucky, Lexington. She is the author of four books, including Why We Read Fiction: Theory of Mind and the Novel (2006) and Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible: Cognition, Culture, Narrative (2008), as well as editor or co-editor of six collections of essays, most recently, Introduction to...
