Jean-Michel Ganteau is Professor of Contemporary British Literature at the University Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 (France) and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is the editor of the journal Études britanniques contemporaines. He is the author of four monographs: David Lodge: le choix de l'éloquence (2001), Peter Ackroyd et la musique du passé (2008), The Ethics and Aesthetics of Vulnerability in Contemporary British Literature (2015), and The Poetics and Ethics of Attention in Contemporary British Narrative (Routledge 2023). He is also the editor, with Christine Reynier, of several volumes of essays (Impersonality and Emotion, Autonomy and Commitment). He has also co-edited with Susana Onega several volumes on trauma, vulnerability, transmodernity, and grievability (The Poetics and Ethics of (Un-)Grievability in Contemporary Anglophone Fiction, 2023). He has published extensively on contemporary British fiction, with a special interest in the ethics of affects trauma, the ethics of vulnerability, and the ethics of attention.

Susana Onega is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Zaragoza and a member of the Academia Europaea. She was granted the Miguel Servet Award for Research Excellence by the Government of Aragón in 2021. She belongs to the Research Institute of Employment, Digital Society and Sustainability (IEDIS), to the excellence research team "Contemporary Narrative in English" (code H03_17R), financed by the Aragonese Government and the European Regional Development Fund (DGI/ERDF), and participates in a national project (PID2021-124841NB-I00), financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIN/AEI). She has written extensively on contemporary fiction, narrative theory, ethics, and trauma and the transition from postmodernism to transmodernism. She has edited or co-edited fourteen volumes of collected essays (eight with Jean-Michel Ganteau) and is the author of five monographs, including Form and Meaning in the Novels of John Fowles (1989), Metafiction and Myth in the Novels of Peter Ackroyd (1999), and Jeanette Winterson (2006). She is currently coediting with Jean-Michel Ganteau the Brill Handbook of Literary Criticism and Ethics