Alison Gibbons

Personal information

First name

Alison

Last name

Gibbons

Institutional affiliation

Sheffield Hallam University

Narratological interest

Alison Gibbons is Senior Lecturer in English at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. She is the author of Multimodality, Cognition, and Experimental Literature (Routledge 2012) and co-editor of Mark Z. Danielewski (MUP, 2010) and the Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature (2012). Alison’s research adopts stylistic and cognitive-poetic approaches to contemporary fictions and to innovative forms of narrative, including immersive and multimodal genres. - Narrative ontology and fictionality - Narrative immersion / Immersive Narratives - Multimodality - Style - Empirical research: Reader responses to narratives - Narratives and ethics