Notes on Contributors

Ron Ben-Tovim is a senior lecturer at Ben Gurion University's Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, where he focuses on modern and contemporary war literature, with a special interest in trauma and disability studies. His book Poetic Prosthetics: Trauma and Language in Contemporary Veteran Writing is forthcoming via the Edinburgh University Press series Advances in Critical Military Studies.Sophus Helle is a postdoctoral researcher at Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on Babylonian epic poetry, especially Gilgamesh, and the Sumerian poems of Enheduana, both of which he has translated into Danish and English. His latest project explores the poetics of philology.Theresa Krampe is a doctoral researcher at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Giessen University and a lecturer in media studies and media education at Osnabrück University, Germany. Her PhD project focusses on the forms and functions of metareference in videogames. Publications include “No Straight Answers: Queering Hegemonic Masculinity in BioWare's Mass Effect” (Game Studies 2018) and “The World Machine: Self-Reflexive Worldmaking in OneShot,” published in the edited volume Game | World | Architectonics (ed. Marc Bonner, Heidelberg UP 2021).Spencer Lee-Lenfield is a PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University. His other research has appeared or will soon appear in Modern Language Quarterly and the Proceedings of the Modern Language Association. His current dissertation research focuses on translation between Korean and English in the Korean diaspora.Stephanie Lotzow is a PhD candidate at the Giessen Graduate Centre for Humanities (GGK) and research assistant at the German Department of Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen, Germany. In her teaching, she focuses on critical media analysis in contemporary German culture. As speaker of the Game Studies Working Group at GGK, she organizes interdisciplinary workshops on the academic study of videogames. Her PhD project presents a ludo-narratological theory for analyzing forms and functions of perturbations in horror games.Marina Ludwigs is a docent at the English Department of Stockholm University. Her specializations include narratology, generative anthropology, Girard's Mimetic Theory, and philosophy of explanation in the humanities. She has recently worked with the questions of paradox and reverse causality. Her recent articles on this topic are “Hierarchical Thinking, Grammatical Structures, and the Originary Scene” (Anthropoetics, 2020) and “Retrieving the Paradox: Freud's Death Drive and the Originary Concept of Deferral” (Anthropoetics, 2022). She is currently working on an interdisciplinary project on the topic of events and eventfulness in literature and science.Jeremy Page is a Sydney-based designer, writer, and (currently) independent researcher, with particular interests in aesthetics, phenomenology, and the various ways in which philosophy intersects with poetry and the arts. He holds a BA with double majors in writing and philosophy, a master's of creative writing, a master's of research (English), and a PhD in English from Macquarie University, with a dissertation exploring the intersections of phenomenology, music, and contemporary American poetry. His creative and scholarly works have been published in Cordite, Meanjin, Journal of New Music Research, and Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology. He can be reached at jeremy.page1@hdr.mq.edu.au.Brian Richardson teaches at the University of Maryland. His most recent works include A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-First Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019), Essays on Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (2021), and Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges, coedited with Jan Alber (2020). His website is https://brianerichardson.weebly.com.Jan-Noël Thon is professor and chair of media studies and media education at Osnabrück University, Germany. Recent books include From Comic Strips to Graphic Novels (coedited with Daniel Stein, 2013), Storyworlds across Media (coedited with Marie-Laure Ryan, 2014), Game Studies (coedited with Klaus Sachs-Hombach, 2015), Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture (2016), Subjectivity across Media (coedited with Maike Sarah Reinerth, 2017), Comicanalyse (coauthored with Stephan Packard, Andreas Rauscher, Véronique Sina, Lukas R. A. Wilde, and Janina Wildfeuer, 2019), and Comics and Videogames (coedited with Andreas Rauscher and Daniel Stein, 2021).Helena Van Praet is a teaching assistant in Dutch literature and PhD student in comparative literature at Université catholique de Louvain. Her research focuses on the experimental poetry of contemporary poets Rozalie Hirs and Anne Carson. Her articles have appeared in Canadian Literature, English Text Construction, and Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne.

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