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CONTRIBUTOR BIOGRAPHIES

GUILLEMETTE BOLENS is Professor of Medieval English Literature and
Comparative Literature at the University of Geneva. Her research fo-
cuses on the history of the body, kinesic intelligence, gestures, and em-
bodied cognition in visual and verbal arts. She is the author of La
Logique du corps articulaire (2000); The Style of Gestures: Embodiment and
Cognition in Literary Narrative (2012; first published in French in 2008),
and L’Humour et le savoir des corps: Don Quicho e, Tristram Shandy et le
rire du lecteur (2016).

MARCO CARACCIOLO is Assistant Professor of English and Literary
Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of three
books, including most recently Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fic-
tion: Explorations in Readers’ Engagement with Characters (University of
Nebraska Press, 2016).

ALBERTO CASADEI is professor of Italian Literature at the University of
Pisa. His studies concern Dante, 16th Century Italian Literature, Con-
temporary poetry and fiction, Literary theory and Cognitive poetics.
Among his recent publications: Poetiche della creatività. Le eratura e
scienze della mente (“Poetics of Creativity. Literature and Cognitive Sci-
ence”: Milano: Bruno Mondadori, 2011), Biologia della le eratura. Corpo,
stile, storia (“Biology of Literature. Body, Style, History”: il Saggiatore:
Milano, forthcoming 2018).

VITTORIO GALLESE, MD, is Professor of Physiology at the Dept. of Neu-
roscience of the University of Parma, Italy, Adjunct Senior Research
Scholar, Dept. of Art History and Archeology, Columbia University,
New York, USA and Professor of Experimental Aesthetics at the Insti-
tute of Philosophy of the School of Advanced Study of the University
of London, UK. His major contribution to neuroscience is the discov-
ery, made with his colleagues at Parma, of mirror neurons and the
elaboration of a theoretical model of perception and social cognition
known as Embodied Simulation Theory.

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