Member of the Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (ASIFF/SIRFF)

I recently registered as a member of the Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (ASIFF) for the current year (2024). I am very excited about the possibility of engaging with this community in October at the Third International Colloquium of the Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (SIRFF/ASIFF) at Kwansei Gakuin University in Hyōgo, Japan.

“The Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (ASIFF)/La Société Internationale des Recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité (SIRFF) is dedicated to developing connections between scholars of fiction worldwide. In a resolutely comparatist and interdisciplinary spirit, it aims to promote studies on fictionality and to encourage exchanges. It brings together specialists of literature, literary theory, cinema, video games, philosophy, psychology and neurosciences. The working languages of the Society are English and French. The Society’s website is bilingual. The initial project arose from a collaboration between Françoise Lavocat (Université Sorbonne nouvelle, France), Alison James (University of Chicago, USA), and Akihiro Kubo (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan). The goal is to extend this collaborative network to the largest possible number of cultural and linguistic spheres. The Society’s conferences take place every two years (Paris in 2019, Chicago in 2022, Nishinomiya  [Japan] in 2024). Where possible, the society also aims to organize seminars and panels at the professional meetings of other large international associations (ICLA, MLA, ISSN).”