Interpreting Violence

Cassandra Falke is Professor of English Literature at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway. She is the author of three books and the editor or co-editor of three others: Intersections in Christianity and Critical Theory (ed. 2010), Literature by the Working Class: English Autobiography, 1820-1848 (2013), The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (2016), Phenomenology of the Broken Body (co-ed., 2019), Wild Romanticism (co-ed. 2020), and Global Human Rights Fiction (forthcomig). She is the President of the American Studies Association of Norway and leads the English literature section at UiT and the Interdisciplinary Phenomenology research group.

Victoria Fareld is Associate Professor of Intellectual History at Stockholm University. Her research focuses mainly on political philosophy, theory of history and memory studies, with particular interests in the connections between time, ethics, memory and historical justice. Her most recent book is From Marx to Hegel and Back: Capitalism, Critique, and Utopia (co-ed, 2020). Among her recent articles and book chapters are "Time" (2022), "Framing the Polychronic Present" (2022), "Entangled Memories of Violence" (Memory Studies, 14:1, 2021), "Coming to Terms with the Present," (2019) and "History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible" (2018).

Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku, nland, and Principal Investigator in the Academy of Finland research consortium "Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory" (2018-2023). Her research is mainly in the fields of narrative studies, cultural memory studies and trauma studies. Her monographs include The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics, History, and the Possible (2018) and The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (2014), and she has co-edited, with Colin Davis, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020) and Storytelling and Ethics: Literature, Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative (2018), and the special issues "Cultural Memorial Forms" (Memory Studies, 2021, with Eneken Laanes) and "Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom" (Poetics Today, 2022, with Maria Maekelae).