Unreliable Narration in Nineteenth- To Twenty-First-Century Fiction

He is the author of the monograph, From Aestheticism to Modernism (De l’esthétisme au modernisme), published with Editions Honoré Champion as well as many articles and book chapters on French literature and culture. His research interests include French cinema and French 19th- and 20th- century literature. He is currently an associate professor at the United States Air Force Academy, where he teaches French literature, cinema, and culture.

Tomoko Inoue finished the graduate program as an MA student at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in March 2024. She has been a student in the university’s PhD program since April 2024. She graduated with a Bachelor of Language and Area Studies degree from the same university in March 2022 and her undergraduate thesis focused on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. The title of her master’s thesis is “Isabel Archer’s Pursuit of Life and the Dynamics of the Novel in Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady.”

Cristina Carnemolla is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic and Italian Studies with a specialization in nineteenth-century literature and cultural history. She completed her Ph.D. in Romance studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on realist and naturalist novels with a comparative interest between the Italian, Spanish, Peruvian and Argentine traditions. Her current book project, tentatively entitled, "South as a Method: From the Southern Question to the Southern Thoughts," examines the emergence of narrative and rhetoric patterns within the context of the unclear and unstable meaning of race and nation-building discourses in these disparate geopolitical contexts.

Carlo Arrigoni is Assistant Professor in the Romance Literatures Department and the Program in Literary Theory at the University of Lisbon, where he is also a member of the Center for Comparative Studies. He holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. His interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and the history and theory of the novel. He is currently working on a book on European and American Naturalism.

Irene Bulla holds a PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University and currently teaches at the Italian Cultural Institute in Lisbon. She is interested in literary representations of the supernatural and is working on a book on monstrosity and the rhetoric of the unsayable in nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction. She is the contributing editor for contemporary Italian literature at World Literature Today.

Bio: Lorenzo Mecozzi is a Core Lecturer at Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University and his research primarily focuses on the theory of the novel, Italian and Western modernism, and the evolution of the Bildungsroman. He is currently working on a book project discussing the emergence of a novelist form he defines as the retrospective novel, examining the crisis of the Bildungsroman in Western literature through the lens of the inept character in Italian modernism.

Chiara Nifosi is Assistant Professor of French Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon. She is currently finalizing her first monograph, entitled L’Écrivain cartographe. Pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l’espace chez Proust (forthcoming: Peter Lang, 2025). Her interests range from comparative European modernisms to nineteenth-century and Avant-Garde French poetry to the intersection between philosophy, social sciences, and literature.

Daniel R. Adler writes on long twentieth century Commonwealth literatures. His work has most recently appeared in Journal of Modern Literature and Arcadia. He holds an MFA in fiction from University of South Carolina, and is currently a doctoral candidate at University of Nevada, Reno.

Brian Richardson teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Maryland. He specializes in international modernism, postmodernism, and narrative theory. His recent books include A Poetics of Plot for the Twenty-first Century: Theorizing Unruly Narratives (2019) https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22468, Essays on Narrative and Fictionality: Reassessing Nine Central Concepts (2021), and Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges, edited with Jan Alber (2020). His latest book, The Reader in Modernist Fiction, a study of the disparate fates of characters who are readers in works of modernist fiction, appeared in 2024. He is currently completing a book on Joseph Conrad and the origins of modernist narrative poetics. Website: https://brianerichardson.weebly.com

Craig Smith teaches English at Northwestern Polytechnic in Grande Prairie, Alberta. His research and teaching interests include postcolonial literatures, Holocaust studies, and adaptation studies.

Morgan Lehofer is a PhD candidate in the English department at Boston University. Her research centers on 20th- and 21st-century narratives, studies of voice, narrative theory, and feminist theory. Her current dissertation project is tentatively titled "Metanarrative Voice in Late Twentieth-Century Anglophone Fiction."