Notes on Contributors

Corinne Bancroft is assistant professor in English at the University of Victoria, Canada. Her research focuses on narrative strategies, such as the braided narrative and child narrators, that contemporary authors use to help readers face issues of racial and sexual violence. Her work seeks to build connections between cognitive approaches to literature and critical race theory. Her publications appear in Cognitive Semiotics, Narrative, and Style. Most recently, she published “The Sight and Sound of Intersectionality in The Bluest Eye” in the Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison (2022).Simona Bartolotta is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English at the University of Giessen, Germany, where she is currently engaged in a project on speculative fiction and anthropocentrism. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford with a thesis on science fiction theory, post-critique, and cognition. She has published in both Italian and English in areas that include cognitive literary studies, literature and philosophy, and ecocriticism. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Between, Symbolon, Science Fiction Studies, and ELH.Francesco Ferrari holds a PhD degree from the University of Genoa for a dissertation on Martin Buber's early philosophy. He coordinates the Jena Center for Reconciliation Studies (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), is a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair for Jewish Philosophy of Religion and Intellectual History (Goethe University Frankfurt), and is currently writing on the concept of reconciliation after Auschwitz (with a focus on philosophers such as Jankélévitch, Adorno, Derrida, Améry, Arendt, Buber). He has published three monographies on Buber and many papers on twentieth-century Jewish philosophy (in English, German, and Italian), and translated several philosophical texts in Italian.Jennifer Greiman is professor of English at Wake Forest University. She is the associate editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies and the author, most recently, of Melville's Democracy: Radical Figuration and Political Form (2023).Wendy Jones is an independent scholar and psychotherapist who has taught English and writing at Cornell University. She has published widely in both academic and popular venues. Her recent publications include Jane on the Brain: Exploring the Science of Social Intelligence with Jane Austen (2017), “The Map of Love in Mansfield Park” (in Jane Austen and Sciences of the Mind, 2017), and “Jane Austen and the Social Sciences” (in The Routledge Companion to Jane Austen, 2021). She blogs on the interface between literature and psychology (www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intersubjective) and is working on a book on this topic.Dennis Kersten is assistant professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures of Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He is affiliated with the Radboud Institute for Culture and History and specializes in British literature, (glocal) metamodernism, and life writing. He is a member of the steering committee of the Metamodernism Network funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council as well as the reviews editor of the European Journal of Life Writing. He has published on contemporary fiction, reception, and biofiction in Biography, English Studies, and Reception.Manar H. Makhoul is a lecturer (assistant professor) at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in Asian and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Cambridge and is author of Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A History through Fiction, 1948–2010 (2020).Simone Murray is associate professor in literary studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Her books include Mixed Media: Feminist Presses and Publishing Politics (2004), The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation (2012), The Digital Literary Sphere: Reading, Writing, and Selling Books in the Internet Era (2018), and Introduction to Contemporary Print Culture: Books as Media (2021). Her new monograph The Digital Future of English: Literary Media Studies is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2025.Usha Wilbers is associate professor of English literature in the Department of Modern Languages and Culture at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She is affiliated with the Radboud Institute for Culture and History and specializes in American and European periodical studies, contemporary British fiction, and, most prominently, metamodernism and reception studies. She is cofounder of ESPRit: European Society for Periodical Research and the Metamodernism Network funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has published on periodical studies, literary criticism, and metamodern fiction in Victorian Periodicals Review, English Studies, and Reception.