This handbook provides an extensive overview of traditional and emerging research areas within the field of intermediality studies, understood broadly as the study of interrelations among all forms of communicative media types, including transmedial phenomena. Section I offers accounts of the development of the field of intermediality - its histories, theories and methods. Section II and III then explore intermedial facets of communication from ancient times until the 21st century, with discussion on a wide range of cultural and geographical settings, media types, and topics, by contributors from a diverse set of disciplines. It concludes in Section IV with an emphasis on urgent societal issues that an intermedial perspective might help understand.
Jørgen Bruhn, PhD., is professor of Comparative Literature, Linnæus University, Sweden. He has written and co-edited or edited several books and special journal issues, his three latest monographs being The Intermediality of Narrative Literature. Medialities Matter (Palgrave Macmillan 2016), with Anne Gjelsvik, Cinema Between Media. An Intermedial Approach (Edinburgh UP, 2018) and, with Niklas Salmose, Intermedial Ecocriticism. Mediations of the Climate Crisis across Media (forthcoming 2023, Lexington Books). His main research areas are literary theory, intermediality and media studies, ecocriticism and environmental humanities. He recently co-edited two volumes related to intermedial studies: Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices (Punctum Books, eds Jørgen Bruhn and Ida Bencke, 2021) and Intermedial Studies. Meaning Making across Media (Routledge, eds Jørgen Bruhn and Beate Schirrmacher, 2022).
Jørgen Bruhn uses Facebook, and to a limited degree Academia and ResearchGate to promote and disseminate his research.
Asun López-Varela Azcárate is Assoc. Prof. at the Department of English Studies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Her research interests are Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies, as well as Cognitive and Intermedial Semiotics. Since 2007, she coordinates of the research program Studies on Intermediality and Intercultural Mediation SIIM. In 2013, she was awarded a Fulbright Visiting Scholarship at Harvard University, Department of Comparative Literature. A proactive member of the profession, currently, López-Varela is Vice-Chair at European Commission Unit REA.A2, Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships, Social Sciences and Humanities (SOC). López-Varela is also Network Coordinator at New Directions in the Humanities. In order to strengthen relations between Europe and Asia, López-Varela coordinates an annual Seminar Series on Cross-cultural dialogue and Sustainability funded by the Eurasia Foundation. She is honorary member of the Poetry Award Committee of Beijing Literature and ArtNetwork. For López-Varela's activities as editor and member of scientific committees in various academic journals, please see https: //www.ucm.es/siim/asun-lopez-varela Her academic publications can be seen at https: //www.ucm.es/siim/lopez-varela-publications and at https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-1616-5830
Miriam de Paiva Vieira is a Professor at the Department of Letters, Arts, and Culture at Universidade Federal de São João del Rei, Brazil. Her research interests are Comparative Literature and Intermedial Studies, with a focus on ekphrasis and the relations between literature and architecture. She has been granted funding from the Brazilian Council for Scientific and Technological Development Scholarship in their Research Productivity Program (CNPq/PQ2 2022-2025). She did a visiting professor fellowship at John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland (spring 2023) and a postdoctoral fellowship funded by CNPq at UFMG, Brazil (2018). Vieira holds a doctorate degree in Literary Studies (2016), and a bachelor's in Architecture (1991). Board member of the International Society for Intermedial Studies. Member of the International Association of Word Image Studies (IAWIS/AIERTI), the Centre de recherches intermédiales sur les arts, les lettres et les techniques (CRIalt), and the research groups Intermidialidade: Literaturas, artes e mídias (Associação Nacional de Pós graduação e Pesquisa em Letras e Linguística, Anpoll) and Grupo Intermídia: estudos sobre a intermidialidade (CNPq). Besides publishing articles, Vieira has edited journal dossiers and book anthologies on intermedial studies. Her academic publications can be accessed at https: //helder.academia.edu/MiriamVieira and https: //orcid.org/0000-0001-9851-0217
