Akihiro Kubo Editor

Alison James is Professor of French at the University of Chicago. Her research interests include the Oulipo group, the contemporary novel, theories and representations of everyday life, and questions of fact and fiction. She is the author of Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo (2009) and The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature: Writing with Facts (2020). She has also edited volumes and journal issues on literary formalism, fieldwork literatures, and nonfiction across media.

Akihiro Kubo is Professor of French Literature at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research interests focus on twentieth-century French literature and theories of literature. He is the author of Hyosho-no Kizu, Daiichiji Sekaitaisen kara miru Furansu Bungaku [French literature and First World War] (2011) and the translator of Jean-Marie Schaeffer’s Pourquoi la fiction? [Naze-Fiction ka] (2019) and Gérard Genette’s Métalepse [Metalepsis] (2022).

Françoise Lavocat is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. She received an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters from the University of Chicago, and is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France as well as a member and section chair in the Academia Europaea. Her publications include Arcadies malheureuses (1997), Usages et théories de la fiction (2004), La Syrinx au bûcher (2005), La théorie littéraire des mondes possibles (2010), Pestes, Incendies naufrages, Écritures du désastre au XVIIe siècle (2010), Fait et fiction: Pour une frontière (2016), and Les Personnages rêvent aussi (2020). Since 2018, she has been president of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies.