Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature at the University of Oslo (Norway). Her research interests extend across 4E cognition, predictive processing and cognitive literary studies. Her publications include Probability Designs: Literature and Predictive Processing (OUP, 2020) and With Bodies: Embodied Cognition and Narrative Theory (with Marco Caracciolo, OSUP, 2021). Currently, she is completing a book on creativity and literary writing. She leads the interdisciplinary initiative Literature, Cognition and Emotions (LCE) at Oslo, as well as the ERC Consolidator project JEUX, investigating literary games as co-creative practices.

Albert Newen is full professor of philosophy at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB), Germany. His central research areas are philosophy of mind and cognition. Furthermore, he is the director of the interdisciplinary Center for Mind and Cognition at RUB since 2011, was president of the German Society for Cognitive Science (2018-2020) and since 2017, he is the speaker of an interdisciplinary Research Training Group (based in Bochum and Osnabrück) working on “Situated Cognition” (DFG-Graduiertenkolleg). Recently appeared: Newen, de Bruin, Gallagher (eds): Oxford Handbook of 4E Cognition, Oxford: OUP (2018). 

Alexandra Effe is Postdoctoral Fellow within the interdisciplinary research center “Literature, Cognition and Emotions” (LCE) at the University of Oslo. She is the author of J. M. Coetzee and the Ethics of Narrative Transgression (Palgrave, 2017), co-editor of The Autofictional (Palgrave, 2022) and of Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour (Routledge, 2023). She has published articles and book chapters on narrative and cognitive theory, twenty-first-century literature, postcolonial literature, and testimonial writing. As Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she co-convened the project “Autofiction in Global Perspective.” At the University of Oslo, she leads an LCE-based project on “Creativity and Crisis.”

Julia Hamilton joined the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University in September 2022 as Lecturer in Egyptology. She was the NINO Postdoctoral Fellow in Egyptology at Leiden University (2020–22) and completed a DPhil in Egyptology at The Queen’s College, Oxford, in 2020. She completed her undergraduate and MA in Ancient History at the University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Julia has a particular interest in the visuality and multi-modality of ancient Egyptian language, especially graffiti and onomastics, and her current monograph project with Bloomsbury is entitled The Lives and Afterlives of Ancient Egyptian Names. 

Emily Hughes is a postdoctoral research associate in philosophy at the University of York working on the AHRC-funded project ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience.’ She completed her PhD at the University of New South Wales. Her research is situated in the intersection between existential phenomenology and the philosophy of psychiatry and psychology, with a particular focus on phenomenological interpretations of affect and the way in which emotions modify temporal, spatial and bodily experience.  

Daniel D. Hutto is Senior Professor of Philosophical Psychology and Head of the School of Liberal Arts at the University of Wollongong. He serves on the Australian Research Council College of Experts. He is co-author of the award-winning Radicalizing Enactivism (MIT, 2013) and its sequel, Evolving Enactivism (MIT, 2017). His other books, include Folk Psychological Narratives (MIT, 2008) and Wittgenstein and the End of Philosophy (Palgrave, 2006). He is editor of Narrative and Understanding Persons (CUP, 2007) and Narrative and Folk Psychology (Imprint Academic, 2009). He is regularly invited to speak internationally, not only at philosophy conferences but at expert meetings of anthropologists, clinicians, coaches, educationalists, narratologists, neuroscientists, and psychologists.

Doug McConnell is an ARC DECRA fellow working on his project, "Rewriting Moral Character and Professional Virtue".  He works on various topics in moral psychology, philosophy of psychiatry, bioethics, and applied philosophy. He is particularly interested in how the content and structure of self-narratives influence agency. He has explored this topic in the context of addiction and has recently begun to consider the implications for moral agency more generally. As part of this work, he is collaborating with psychologists to improve our understanding of how moral identity influences behaviour.

Richard Menary is Professor of Philosophy at Macquarie University. For the last five years he was Head of the Department of Philosophy. Between 2014 and 2018 he was an ARC Future Fellow and before that he was a Senior Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders at Macquarie. He read for a BA in philosophy at the University of Ulster, an MSc in Cognitive Science at the University of Birmingham and then a PhD in philosophy at King's College London. He has taught and researched at universities in the United Kingdom and Australia. He has published widely on extended, embodied and distributed cognition and the enculturation of cognition. He has also written on: neural plasticity, symbolic cognition – particularly reading and mathematical cognition, the cultural evolution of social cognition, pragmatism and cognitive science and embodied narratives and the self.

Hoda Mostafavi is an early career researcher with a passion for teaching philosophy. His research interests lie in the philosophy of mind, cognition, and biology, with a particular focus on the evolution, development, and enculturation of social cognition. During his undergraduate years, he studied psychology before pursuing an MPhil and then a PhD in Philosophy. 

Kate Rossmanith is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. She researches narrative and emotion in legal contexts, as well as forms of nonfiction writing. She is the author of Small Wrongs: How we really say sorry in love, life and law (nominated for literary awards in the UK and Australia), and co-editor of Remorse and Criminal Justice: Multi-disciplinary perspectives (Routledge). Her widely read essays ‘Ditching the New Yorker Voice’ and ‘On Not Asking “Should I Insert Myself in the Text?”’ explore the epistemological effects of narratorial presence in nonfiction writing. Kate is an Associate Professor in Media, Cultural Studies, and Creative Writing at Macquarie University. She lives and works on Dharug country. 

Penny Van Bergen is a Professor of Educational Psychology and current Head of the School of Education at the University of Wollongong. She has an interest in memory and emotion in social contexts, and has completed observational, experimental, and RCT studies considering how parents’ and teachers’ memory scaffolding practices shape young peoples’ memory development over time. She is also interested in peer collaboration and student-teacher relationships in educational contexts.