Contributors
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torsa ghosal is a PhD candidate in the English department Ohio State University, where she is writing her dissertation about how the materiality of semiotic resources such as handwriting, typos, and images affect contemporary multimodal literature. Her article “Empathic Crossfires: Latinos in Bollywood … Bollywood in Latinolandia” was published in Latinos and Narrative Media (2013), and “Strikethrough Calcutta: Poetics and Politics of Interruption in Satyajit Ray’s and Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta Trilogies” in South Asian Review (2015).
eileen herbert-goodall holds a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, where she now teaches in the university’s Creative Writing Excellence Program. She also works with adults who wish to improve their reading and writing skills. She has published several short stories, and she was awarded the Fellowship of Australian Writer’s Best Short Story, Inktears International Flash Fiction Competition, and was a finalist for Labello Press Gem Street Award, Gimmer Train’s Short Story Award for Emerging Writers, The Cowley Award, First Publishing Short Story Award, and The Great Novella Search Award. She is presently working [End Page 129] on a collection of short stories. Her research focuses on trends of media convergence and the increasing links between print and electronic media as a result of information and communications technology.
veli-matti karhulahti is a ludo-ontologist who is concerned with the possible existence of storiology. At the time of writing he was preparing to defend his doctoral dissertation at the University of Turku, Finland, where he plans to remain as a postdoctoral researcher. Karhulahti’s dissertation analyzes the structural differences between the video game and the phenomena that surround it (such as story artifacts). His research interests include exploring the possible existence of storiology, the story-evoking potential of puzzles, and the functions of storyworlds in e-sports products.
daniel schäbler studied German and English literature at Kiel University, Germany. In 2014 he received his PhD for a diachronic study of framing strategies in English fiction. After teaching in Kiel and Graz, he is currently working at the University of Wuppertal. His research interests include cultural narratology, intermedial relations between literature, film, and computer game, and constructions of realism and authenticity in narrative and drama.
katherine weese is Elliott Professor of English at Hampden-Sydney College, where she teaches contemporary fiction, film, and literary theory. She is the author of Feminist Narrative and the Supernatural: The Function of Fantastic Devices in Seven Recent Novels (2008) and of several articles on narrative technique in film and contemporary novels that have appeared in journals such as Narrative, Modern Fiction Studies, and Journal of Narrative Theory. Her most recent research interest is unnatural narratology. [End Page 130]
