Project team
Karin Kukkonen
Project leader
Karin Kukkonen is Professor in Comparative Literature. She has worked on the (long) history of the novel and investigated how literary authors write in a creative mode. For JEUX, she will draw on her expertise in interdisciplinary approaches to literature, literary history and manuscript studies. Kukkonen is currently preparing an English translation of La Force’s Les jeux d’esprit (1701) and designing the experimental creative writing workshops together with Hannah Freundlich, Andreas Roepstorff and Marina Warner.
Hannah Freundlich
Researcher
Hannah Freundlich is doing a post-doc in Comparative Literature. She has worked for her PhD on Women and Gambling in various texts, using tools belonging to different disciplines (psychoclinic, history, anthropology, gender studies and so on). She will be working on the experimental creative writing workshops of the JEUX project together with Karin Kukkonen, Andreas Roepstorff and Marina Warner.
Damla Tahirbegi
Research Assistant
Damla Tahirbegi is a Research Assistant in the JEUX project. Her role involves overseeing the progress of various research tasks, coordinating data collection efforts, and assisting with participant recruitment. Damla's broad research interests include collective creativity, improvisation, and emotion regulation emerging in small group interactions. For her PhD, she has been exploring the socially shared regulation of emotions in collaborative learning contexts within higher music education.
Mylène Garin
Doctoral Research Fellow
Mylène Garin is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature. Her research focuses on the correlation between game objects and inventiveness in literature and explores the gendered dimension of games in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. For JEUX, she will focus on fans both as a means of literary exchange and entertainment in literary salons, as well as on their representations in literary texts.
Michela La Grotteria
Doctoral Research Fellow
Michela La Grotteria is a PhD research fellow within the JEUX project. With a background in Literary Theory and the French Novel, she has previously focused on contemporary experimental first-person narratives. In the JEUX project, her research centers on the theme of curiosity, exploring its role both as a thematic element and as a device for building narrative tension in 17th-century French novels and short stories collections. To conduct her analysis, she will employ narratology and cognitive studies, aiming to understand how these literary texts were crafted and how they engage and resonate with readers.
Elisa Saggioro
Doctoral Research Fellow
Elisa Saggioro is a PhD Research Fellow in Comparative Literature with a background in Comparative Languages and Literatures, specializing in French and English literature. She is currently part of the JEUX project, where her research focuses on maps as collaborative literary games and their role in fostering creativity. Through her interdisciplinary approach, she combines digital humanities and empirical aesthetics to explore innovative approaches to literary studies.
Larissa Lily
Administrative Coordinator
Larissa Lily is a Research Advisor at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages. She is responsible for the administrative coordination of the JEUX project.
Advisory board
Espen Aarseth
Espen Aarseth is the Dean, Chair Professor of Game Studies at the City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative Media (scm.cityu.edu.hk). He is currently also the Editor-in-Chief of Game Studies (gamestudies.org), the oldest peer reviewed journal in the field of game Studies. His current research concerns ideological, narrative, semiotic and ontological aspects of games and game communication, as well as topics such as game addiction, games and meaning, and also digital literature culture and aesthetics.
Read more on his School of Creative Media profile page
Koen De Temmerman
Koen De Temmerman is a Research Professor (in the rank of Full Professor since 2019) at the Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University, where he directs the Novel Saints: Ancient Fiction and Hagiography Research Centre (novelsaints.ugent.be).
Read more on his Ghent University profile page
Andreas Roepstorff
Andreas Roepstorff is the Centre Director at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies and a professor at the Aarhus University, at the Department of Anthropology and at the Interacting Minds Centre.
Read more on his Aarhus University profile page
Marina Warner
Marina Warner is a writer of fiction, criticism and history; her works include novels and short stories as well as studies of art, myths, symbols and fairytales.
Read more on her personal website (marinawarner.com)