- Contributors
H. Porter Abbott is a professor emeritus of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His publications include The Fiction of Samuel Beckett: Form and Effect (U of California P, 1973), Diary Fiction: Writing as Action (Cornell UP, 1984), Beckett Writing Beckett: The Author in the Autograph (Cornell UP, 1996), and The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (Cambridge UP, 2002, 2008). He is also the editor of On the Origin of Fictions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2001).
Apostolos Doxiadis is a writer, writing in both Greek and English. His early love and university study of mathematics inspired two fictional works—Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture (Faber, 2000) and the graphic novel Logicomix (with Christos H. Papadimitriou; Bloomsbury 2009)—that are set within the storyworlds of twentieth-century mathematical research, both real and imagined. His contribution to this issue is one of a series of articles exploring aspects of the relationship between narrative and mathematical proof, a subject that is also at the center of the forthcoming volume on Mathematics and Narrative that he is co-editing with the mathematician Barry Mazur. [End Page 121]
Richard J. Gerrig, a professor of psychology at Stony Brook University, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in cognitive psychology. His research largely centers on readers' experiences of narratives with an emphasis on participatory effects. His book Experiencing Narrative Worlds (Yale UP, 1993) blends theories from literature and cognitive science to outline what's at stake in this research enterprise.
Karin Kukkonen recently completed her doctoral degree in English literature and media culture with a bi-national PhD project at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Germany) and the University of Tampere (Finland). She has published a book on superhero comics, Neue Perspektiven auf die Superhelden: Polyphonie in Alan Moores Watchmen (Marburg, 2008), as well as articles on the impact of postmodernism on comics storytelling and on cognitive approaches to comics studies. Her research interests include rhetoric, postmodernism, and transmedial narratology.
Scott W. Ruston is currently a postdoctoral fellow with Arizona State University's Consortium for Strategic Communication, where he specializes in narrative theory and media studies. He received his PhD in critical studies from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California in 2008. Through a combination of theory and practice, his research has explored how the cinematic legacy of the telephone and the unique characteristics of mobile media combine to create immersive and interactive narrative entertainments.
Sean O'Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at Ohio State University. He has published articles on Deadwood and Charles Dickens; third seasons; interconnections among The Decalogue, Six Feet Under and Lost; and British television drama. His book on film director Mike Leigh is forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. [End Page 122]