Advanced Education

Willie van Peer
Ludwig Maximilian University
Belgium

Willie van Peer is Professor of Intercultural Hermeneutics at Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany. He is the author of several books and many articles on poetics and the epistemological foundations of literary studies, vice-president of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (1996 – 1998), president of the international Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA, 2000 – 2003), president of the International Society for Empirical Study of Literature and media (IGEL, 2004 –2006), co-founder of the international REDES project (2001 – 2009), co-editor of book series Linguistic Approaches to Literature (LAL, John Benjamins, 2000 – 2010), executive editor of the Scientific Study of Literature journal series (SSOL, John Benjamins).

Willie van Peer has been Visiting Scholar in the Departments of Comparative Literature at Stanford and at Princeton University, and in the Department of (Cognitive) Psychology at the University of Memphis. He is also a Fellow of Clare Hall of Cambridge University.

Anna Chesnokova
ORCID iD Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Ukraine

Anna Chesnokova holds an MA in English and French Philology (Kyiv National Linguistic University, 1991) and a PhD in Comparative Literary Studies (Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University, 1999). She is Professor of English Philology at Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, Ukraine. She has published on Stylistics and Empirical Studies of Literature. Her publications include Acting & Connecting. Cultural Approaches to Language and Literature (co-edited with S. Zyngier and V. Viana, LIT Verlag, 2007), Directions in Empirical Literary Studies (co-edited with S. Zyngier, M. Bortolussi, and J. Auracher, John Benjamins, 2008), chapters for The International Reception of Emily Dickinson (Continuum Press, 2009), Cases on Distance Delivery and Learning Outcomes: Emerging Trends and Programs (with V. Viana, S. Zyngier and W. van Peer, IGI Global, 2009), Teaching Stylistics (with W. van Peer and S. Zyngier, Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) and Scientific Approaches to Literature in Learning Environments (John Benjamins, 2016).