List of contributors
Fiona J. Doloughan is a Lecturer in English at the Department of Culture, Media and Communication at the University of Surrey. Her main interests lie at the interface of language and literature; she has an ongoing interest in narrative, multimodal texts, and notions of creativity in relation to translation. She has recently published articles on themes such as meaning-making and the culture of narrativity, and style in the intercultural narrative.
Matti Hyvärinen is a doctor in social sciences. He has studied sociology and political science, and works now as an Academy of Finland Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology and Social Psychology at the University of Tampere. His current project is the Conceptual History of Narrative. He is also the leader of the research team Politics and the Arts in The Finnish Centre of Excellence of Political Thought and Conceptual Change (University of Jyväskylä).
Hanna Meretoja (Lic. Phil.) is a researcher in comparative literature at the University of Turku and at the Finnish Graduate School of Literary Studies. She is writing her Ph.D. thesis on the problem of subjectivity in novels by Alain Robbe- Grillet and Michel Tournier. She has published articles on the postwar French novel as well as on the philosophy of the human sciences, especially on the hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur.
Jarmila Mildorf completed her Ph.D. in Sociolinguistics at the University of Aberdeen in 2002, and has since taught in the Department of English at the University of Stuttgart. Her research interests are in gender studies, narratology, sociolinguistics and medical humanities, and her publications include a forthcoming book Narrating Domestic Violence: Stories and Stereotypes of Abuse in the Discourse of General Practitioners and an edited volume on Magic, Science, Technology, and Literature.
Sylvie Patron is Maître de Conférences at the University Paris 7-Denis Diderot.
She has published Critique (1946–1996): Une encyclopédie de l’esprit moderne and several articles on French intellectual history in the second half of the twentieth century.
She is currently working on a book Le Narrateur: Un problème de théorie littéraire.
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan is Professor emerita of English and Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main publications are: The Concept of Ambiguity: The Example of James, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, A Glance beyond Doubt: Narration, Representation, Subjectivity. Her current research is on illness narratives, an offshoot of a larger project on the concept of narrative in various disciplines.
Itay Sapir is currently writing an art history doctoral dissertation on the early Baroque Tenebrist painting in the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, and in the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris. The main protagonists of his doctoral thesis are Caravaggio, Montaigne, Adam Elsheimer and Giordano Bruno. Previously, Itay Sapir completed an M. A. in history in Tel Aviv University.
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Ira Westergård, M. A., is a researcher in art history at the Finnish National Graduate School of Art History at the University of Helsinki. She is currently finishing her doctoral dissertation on “The Visitation” as a subject of altarpieces in fifteenth-century Florence.
