AbOUT ThE AUThORS COLIN dAVIS is Professor of French at Royal Holloway, university of London, uK. His research is principally in the field of twentieth-century French literature, thought and film, with interests including ethics, ethical criticism, Holocaust literature, recent fiction, and the connections between philosophy, fiction, and film. His most recent books are Critical Excess: Overreading in Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas, Žižek and Cavell (Stanford uP, 2010) and Postwar Renoir: Film and the Memory of Violence (Routledge, 2012). dAPhNA ERdINAST-VULCAN is Professor of English at the university of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Graham Greene’s Childless Fathers (Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1988), Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (Oxford uP, 1991), The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad: Writing, Culture, and Subjectivity (Oxford uP, 1999), and Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject (Stanford uP, 2013). SAIjA ISOMAA works as university Lecturer in Finnish Literature at the university of Tampere. She has co-edited two edited volumes in English and two in Finnish, and is currently editing the first issue of a new peer-reviewed Finnish literary journal entitled “Joutsen / Svanen.” Her current research focuses on the affective and persuasive aspects of literary genres and the migration of genres across time, place, and cultural borders. ANgELA LOCATELLI is Professor of English Literature, Director of the PhD Program in “Euro-American Literatures” at the university of Bergamo, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the university of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Her main research interests are literary and cultural theory, and epistemology of literature. She has edited ten volumes on literary epistemology (The Knowledge of Literature/La conoscenza della Letteratura, 2002–2011). She has written extensively on Shakespeare and Renaissance culture and literature and has published the first modern edition (with an Italian translation) of Henry Peacham’s A Merry Discourse of Meum and Tuum (1639) (Il Doppio e il Picaresco, Milano, Jaca Book, 1998). Her publications include a book on the “stream of consciousness” novel, and several articles on Modernist and Postmodern fiction, and 20th Century drama. PIRjO LyyTIkäINEN is Professor of Finnish literature and director of the research community Genres of Literary Worldmaking at the university of Helsinki, Finland. She was director of the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Literary Studies (2006–2013) and member of the Executive council of International 206 Comparative Literature Association (2011–2013). Lyytikäinen’s publi- cations include several monographs in Finnish and numerous articles in English. She has edited and co-edited the following anthologies in English: Imagining Spaces and Places (2013) Rethinking Mimesis (2012), Genre and Interpretation (2010), The Angel of History: Literature, History and Culture (2009), and Changing Scenes: Encounters between European and Finnish Fin de Siècle (2003). kRISTINA MALMIO is Adjunct Professor in Nordic Literature at university of Helsinki, Finland, Visiting Professor of Finnish Literature at the university of Vienna (2014), and the research leader of a research project “Late Modern Spatiality in Finland-Swedish Prose Literature 1990–2010” (Swedish Society of Literature in Finland, 2014–2016). Malmio’s publications include two monographs in Swedish and articles in Swedish, Finnish, and English. She has edited and co-edited several books on Finland-Swedish literature, the peer-reviewed Avain – Finnish Journal of Literary Studies, and a forthcoming anthology in English on Finland-Swedish literature. hANNA MERETOjA is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at the university of Tampere, Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the university of Turku (Finland), and the leader of the research project “Ethics of Storytelling and the Experience of History in Contemporary Arts” (Emil Aaltonen Foundation 2013–2015). Her research interests include the interrelations between liter- ature, philosophy, and history; narrative studies; hermeneutics; subjectivity, identity, and cultural memory; and contemporary fiction in French, German, and English. Her most recent work includes The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and “Narrative and Human Existence: Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics” (New Literary History, 45:1, 2014). ANSgAR NüNNINg is professor of English and American Literature and Cultural Studies at Justus-Liebig-university in Giessen. He is the founding and managing director of the “Giessener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften” (GGK, 2001–), of the “International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture” (GCSC, 2006–), and of the European PhD Network “Literary and Cultural Studies.” He has published widely on English and American literature, cultures of memory, narratology, and literary and cultural theory, including 15 monographs and more than 200 scholarly articles in refereed journals and collections of essays. His narratological publications include Cultural Ways of Worldmaking: Media and Narratives, (ed. with Vera Nünning and Birgit Neumann, de Gruyter 2010), An Introduction to the Study of Narrative Fiction (with Birgit Neumann, Klett 2008), Erzähltextanalyse und .