Jean-François Vernay is a lecturer in cognitive Australian literary studies at Global Institute-Sydney and the author of five scholarly books, most of which are available in translation or are currently being translated:He has also edited several special issues of international academic journals and his 30 odd peer-reviewed articles and chapters have appeared in many countries around the world. His latest monographs are:A Brief Take on the Australian Novel (Wakefield Press, 2016), The Seduction of Fiction: A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation (Palgrave, 2016), La séduction de la fiction (Hermann, 2019), and Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness(Routledge, 2021). He also edited The Rise of the Australian Neurohumanities: Conversations Between Neurocognitive Research and Australian Literature (Routledge, 2021) in thesame series.