Marco Caracciolo is associate professor of English and literary theory at Ghent University. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and other media (especially video games). He is the author of several books, including most recently Contemporary Narrative and the Spectrum of Materiality (2023).
Hilary Duffield is emeritus professor of English literature at the University of Trier. Her main research focus is on cognitive approaches to narrative and representations of environmental crisis, particularly invasion narratives and interspecies conflict. She has published articles in journals including Narrative, Current Writing, Journal for the Study of British Cultures, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Interventions, and Sprachkunst. Her book Coincidence and Counterfactuality: Plotting Time and Space in Narrative Fiction (published under her former name, Hilary Dannenberg) won the Barbara and...
