Contributors
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Jan Alber is associate professor in the English department of the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of Narrating the Prison (2007) and has recently completed a monograph on unnatural narratives. He has coedited numerous collections and published articles in journals such as the Dickens Studies Annual, Journal of Popular Culture, Journal of Narrative Theory, Literature Compass, Narrative, Storyworlds, and Style.
Stefan Iversen is assistant professor at the Institute for Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University, Denmark. He coauthored the articles “Unnatural Narratives, Unnatural Narratology: Beyond Mimetic Models” (2010) and “What Is Unnatural about Unnatural Narratology?” (2012) and coedited the anthologies Why Study Literature? (2011) and Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction (2011). He leads the Aarhus Institute for Narrative Study. Together with Henrik Skov Nielsen he coedits the Danish-language book series Modern Literary Theory, in which ten volumes have been published.
Patrick Keating is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University, where he teaches courses in film and media studies. [End Page 143] He is the author of Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (2011), which was selected by the Society of Cinema and Media Studies as the Best First Book published in 2011. Recently, he was awarded an Academy Film Scholars grant to support his research into the history of camera movement in Hollywood cinema.
Tobias Klauk is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Courant Research Centre on “Text Structures” at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is author of Gedankenexperimente in der Philosophie (2008) and of several papers exploring areas of intersection between narratology and philosophy. His research interests include philosophical aesthetics, narrative theory, and philosophy of language.
Tilmann Köppe is professor of literary studies at the Courant Research Centre on “Text Structures” at the University of Göttingen, Germany. He is the author of Literatur und Erkenntnis (2008), coauthor of Neuere Literaturtheorien (2008) and Erzähltheorie (2013), and coeditor of several volumes on topics in literary theory. His research interests include literary theory, narrative theory, and philosophical aesthetics.
Markku Lehtimäki is senior lecturer in literature at the University of Eastern Finland in Joensuu, Finland. He is the author of The Poetics of Norman Mailer’s Nonfiction (2005) and coeditor of Intertextuality and Intersemiosis (2004), Thresholds of Interpretation (2006), Real Stories, Imagined Realities (2007), and, most recently, Narrative, Interrupted (2012). His research interests include American literature, narrative theory, environmental poetics, and visual culture.
Henrik Skov Nielsen is a professor at the Scandinavian Institute based at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. He is head of the recently established Centre for Fictionality Studies, where he is working on a project on fictionality conceived as a fundamental human cognitive skill. He is also conducting studies on the relation between authors and narrators and on unnatural narratology in the context of two other research groups associated with the Narrative Research Lab at the University of Aarhus (http://nordisk.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/nrl/intro/). [End Page 144]
Ruth Page works in the School of English at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Literary and Linguistic Approaches to Feminist Narratology (2006) and Stories and Social Media (2012), editor of New Perspectives on Narrative and Multimodality (2010), and coeditor of New Narratives: Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age (2011). Her research interests include discourse-analytic approaches to narrative and gender, as well as the evolution of narrative forms in social media contexts.
Michael Ranta holds a PhD in the history of art from Stockholm University, Sweden, and is currently a research fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics at Lund University. He is the author of Mimesis as the Representation of Types: The Historical and Psychological Basis of an Aesthetic Idea (2000) and has written numerous articles on aesthetic, narratological, and art historical issues. He has also contributed to the field of art criticism.
Brian Richardson is a professor in the English department at the University of Maryland, where he teaches modern literature and narrative theory. He is 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 coauthor (with David...
