The project team is based in Sheffield, UK and Giessen, Germany.
Jan Alber is Professor of New English and American Literature and Head of the English Department at JLU Giessen University (Germany) and Past President of the ISSN. He is the author of Narrating the Prison (Cambria Press, 2007) and Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama (University of Nebraska Press, 2016). Alber received fellowships and research grants from the British Academy, the Exploratory Research Space at RWTH Aachen University, the German Research Foundation, the Humboldt Foundation, and the Ministry for Culture and Science of Northrhine-Westphalia. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Marie-Curie Fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (Denmark). Alber is currently working on a UKRI project on the processing of post-postmodernist fictions of the digital with Alice Bell.
Alice Bell is Professor of English Language and Literature at Sheffield Hallam University in the UK. Her research specialisms are stylistics, narratology, empirical literary methods, and digital fiction. Her publications include The Possible Worlds of Hypertext Fiction (Palgrave 2010), Digital Fiction and the Unnatural (OSUP 2021), and Reading Digital Fiction: Narrative, Cognition, Mediality (with Astrid Ensslin, Routledge 2024).
Nadia Georgiou works as an AHRC-funded postdoctoral researcher at Sheffield Hallam University and as postgraduate research supervisor at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David. Her research interests include reader responses to (translated/multilingual) literary texts, the production and circulation of literature and the sociology of literature. Her publications have appeared in Cultus, the AALITRA Review and JoSTrans. She is an active freelance translator.
Denise Wong is postdoctoral researcher at Justus Liebig University Giessen (Germany). She is Reviews Co-Editor of C21: Journal of 21st-century Writings and her publications have appeared in Textual Practice, the Journal of Asian American Studies, DIEGESIS and The Problems of Literary Genres, and the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel. She is currently finishing a monograph on you-narration in the contemporary and working on the UKRI project, ‘Reading Post-Postmodernist Fictions of the Digital: Narrative, Cognition, and Technology in the Twenty-First Century’.