Notes on Contributors

Marco Bernini is associate professor in cognitive literary studies in the Department of English Studies at Durham University, where he founded and leads the Narrative and Cognition Lab. His research focuses on narrative theory and cognitive science. He published articles on mind and narrative in Style, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Frontiers of Psychology, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, and Consciousness and Cognition. He is the author of Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory Narratives (2021) and coeditor of the forthcoming Dreams, Narrative, and Liminal Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Framework.Yves Citton is professor in literature and media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis, member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and coeditor of the journal Multitudes. He has published Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds (2025), Mediarchy (2019), and The Ecology of Attention (2016) and coedited with Enrico Campo Politics of Curiosity: Alternatives to the Attention Economy (2024). His articles are in open access on his website www.yvescitton.net.Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (D.Phil. Oxon) is professor emerita of English literature at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is the author of Graham Greene's Childless Fathers (1988), Joseph Conrad and the Modern Temper (1991), The Strange Short Fiction of Joseph Conrad (1999), Between Philosophy and Literature: Bakhtin and the Question of the Subject (2013), and numerous articles on literary modernism and subjectivity. Her current research focuses the nexus of life writing and intertextuality, the theoretical construct of hetero-biography, and the poetics of re-enchantment in twentieth-century writing.Taylor Johnston-Levy is a researcher and teaching fellow at Bar-Ilan University (BIU) in the Department of English Literature and Linguistics. Her work spans the fields of US literature, African American literature, and critical race theory. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at Tel Aviv University's Center for the Study of the United States in partnership with the Fulbright Program (2019 – 20) and at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (2021 – 24). Her research appears in Twentieth-Century Literature, Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, Arizona Quarterly, and Critique. Additionally, she serves as prose editor of The Ilanot Review (BIU), and her fiction writing can be found in Ninth Letter. She is working on an academic book manuscript about critical representations of the white lower middle class in US fiction of the 1970s.Yael Levin is associate professor of English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and associate provost for academic affairs at the Rothberg International School. She is author of Tracing the Aesthetic Principle in Conrad's Novels (2008) and Joseph Conrad: Slow Modernism (2020). Her work on modernism, Irish literature, attention, and disability has appeared in Journal of Modern Literature, Journal of Beckett Studies, the Conradian, Conradiana, Partial Answers, Twentieth-Century Literature, and collected volumes. She is also editor of The Evolution of Attention in Modern and Contemporary Culture (forthcoming).Yael Segalovitz is assistant professor in the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and visiting professor in comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on comparative modernisms, theories of reading, and the intersection of literature and psychoanalysis. She is the author of How Close Reading Made Us: The Transnational Legacies of New Criticism (2024) and is currently at work on a new project about psychoanalysis, self-writing, and relational reading.