Travelling Concepts: New Fictionality Studies

Monika Fludernik is Professor of English Literature at the University of Freiburg in Germany. She has worked in the areas of narratology, postcolonial literary theory, law and literature studies and the eighteenth century. Her two most recent publications are Metaphors of Confinement: The Prison in Fact, Fiction, and Fantasy (Oxford Univ. Press, 2019) and (with Marie-Laure Ryan) the handbook Narrative Factuality (de Gruyter, 2019).Henrik Skov Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University. His research has attempted to contribute to conversations about mainly three areas of narrative theory: first person narration; unnatural narratology; and fictionality. Sample publications in English include Ten Theses about Fictionality with James Phelan and Richard Walsh (in Narrative January 2015) and Narratology and Ideology edited with Divya Dwivedi and Richard Walsh, which was recently published by OSU press. He heads the research group Narrative Research Lab (http://nordisk.au.dk/forskning/forskningscentre/nrl/intro/), and Centre for Fictionality Studies (http://fictionality.au.dk/).