Marcello Giovanelli is Reader in Literary Linguistics and Co-Director of the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University, UK. He has research interests in cognitive poetics, the stylistics of poetry, empirical literary studies, stylistics in education, and health humanities. He is the author of thirteen books including four major research monographs, and over forty peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters in edited collections in stylistics. He previously edited the collections Knowing About Language (Routledge, 2016), New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (Bloomsbury, 2020) and Teaching Language and Literature 16-19 (Routledge 2021), and series edited the nine volume Cambridge Key Topics in English Language (Cambridge University Press). He is the editor of Siegfried’s Journal (the journal of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship), Associate Editor of the journals English Studies (Taylor and Francis) and English in Education (Taylor and Francis) and sits on the editorial board of Journal of Literary Semantics (De Gruyter). 

Chloe Harrison is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Literature and Co-Director of the Aston Stylistics Research Group at Aston University, UK. where she researches in cognitive stylistics, re-reading, empirical reader studies and contemporary fiction. She has published extensively in these areas, with notable recent projects including the article ‘99 ways to re-tell a story’ in the international journal Style (Penn State University Press 2023), the co-edited collection New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style (Bloomsbury 2020), and a research monograph on The Language of Margaret Atwood (Palgrave, forthcoming 2024).  She regularly reviews book proposals for leading publishers and research papers for international journals in stylistics, narrative studies and cognitive linguistics, including Language and Literature (Sage), the Journal of Literary Semantics (De Gruyter), Narrative Inquiry (John Benjamins), among others.  

 Editorial Board

Dr Alison Gibbons, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Dr Urszula Kizelbach, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Dr Clara Neary, University of Chester, UK

Dr Julie Neveux, Sorbonne University, France

Dr Eirini Panagiotidou, West Chester University, USA

Dr Helen Ringrow, University of Portsmouth, UK

Professor Eleonora Sasso, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy

Dr Jeremy Scott, University of Kent, UK

Professor Sandrine Sorlin, Paul Valéry-Montpellier University, France

Professor Sven Strasen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Dr M'Balia Thomas, University of Arizona, USA

Dr Elisabetta Zurru, University of Genoa, Italy