June 2018: John Pier is professor emeritus of English at the University of Tours and a member of the Centre de Recherche sur les Arts et le Langage at the CNRS in Paris, where he codirects the seminar “Recherches contemporaines en narratologie.” His numerous articles and book chapters on narrative theory and literary semiotics have appeared in France and abroad. Among the volumes he has recently edited or co-edited are Handbook of Narratology (2 vols., 2009, 2nd ed. 2014), Emerging Vectors of Narratology (2017), Le formalisme russe 100 ans après (2018), Jan Mukařovský: Écrits 1928-1946 (2018), and Contemporary French Narratology (forthcoming).