Contributors
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Marco Caracciolo is completing his PhD in comparative literature at the University of Bologna in Italy. He is mainly interested in cognitive approaches to literature and in literary aesthetics, with his dissertation research focusing on how literary works figure the quality or texture of conscious experience. His article on Virginia Woolf ’s To the Lighthouse was recently published in Poetics Today.
Kevin Mcgee is an associate professor in the Communications and New Media Programme at the National University of Singapore, where he leads the Partner Technologies Research Group. His research, which is both theoretical and applied, focuses on how to understand different dimensions of human partnership and to create technologies that have the characteristics of good partners. He has published and presented widely on these topics and is currently working on a book about the design of partner technologies.
Alex Mitchell is an instructor in the Communications and New Media Programme at the National University of Singapore and is pursuing his PhD at the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering. His thesis research focuses on human and technical issues relevant [End Page 161] to the design of procedural interactive stories. He has a BS and an MS in computer science from the University of Toronto. His work has been shown at SIGGRAPH ’98, at the Science Museum in London, at Graphite 2004 at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and as part of the Creative Curating Lab at the Singapore Art Show 2005.
Ageliki Nicolopoulou is professor and chair in the Psychology Department at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. She is a sociocultural developmental psychologist whose research interests include young children’s narrative activities and their role in the construction of reality and identity; the significance of the peer group and peer culture as social contexts for children’s development, socialization, and education; and the foundations of emergent literacy. Recent publications include “The Elementary Forms of Narrative Coherence in Young Children’s Storytelling” (Narrative Inquiry) and “From Actors to Agents to Persons: The Development of Character Representation in Young Children’s Narratives” (Child Development).
Brian Richardson is a professor in the English Department of the University of Maryland. Having published articles on aspects of narrative theory, including plot, time, cause, closure, character, narration, reader response, reflexivity, and the narratives of literary history, he is also the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and the Nature of Modern Narrative (1997) and Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006), and the coauthor (with David Herman, James Phelan, Peter Rabinowitz, and Robyn Warhol) of Practicing Narrative Theory: Four Approaches in Conversation (forthcoming). The editor of two volumes— Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames (2002) and Narrative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2008)—he is currently completing a monograph on narrative beginnings, middles, and endings.
Catherine Slater is a research fellow at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. Her PhD thesis explored the concept of voice in five modern English translations of Ovid’s Heroides, drawing on ideas from narrative theory. She is currently a participant in the IVY project, an EU-funded project co-ordinated by the University of [End Page 162] Surrey. The project aims to use 3D virtual environment technology to create an innovative virtual educational space supporting the acquisition and application of skills required in interpreter-mediated communication. As a freelance translator working from French to English, she also combines the theory and practice of translation in her work.
Bronwen Thomas is senior lecturer in linguistics and literature and coordinator of the Narrative Research Group at Bournemouth University in the United Kingdom. She has published widely on fanfiction, and her research interests also include adaptation theory and the representation of speech and thought in the novel. She is the coeditor with Ruth Page of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age, forthcoming in the Frontiers of Narrative book series (U of Nebraska P), and has recently completed a monograph, Fictional Dialogue: Speech and Conversation in the Modern and Postmodern Novel, also forthcoming from Nebraska.
Richard Walsh is a senior lecturer in English and related literature at the University of York, United Kingdom. He is the author of Novel...
