Marco Caracciolo received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he leads NARMESH, a collaborative project on contemporary narrative and the nonhuman. His work has appeared in journals such as New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, and Narrative. He is the author of three books: The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach (De Gruyter, 2014; honorable mention for the Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative); Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2016); and A Passion for Specificity (coauthored with psychologist Russell Hurlburt; Ohio State University Press, 2016).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Within Narrow Limits1. Strange Spaces2. The Cosmology of Everyday Life3. Sex and the Cosmos4. Posthuman Time Faces the Hard Problem5. Bodies from Outer Space 6. The Wide, Wide Cosmos Coda: And So What? References

Marco Caracciolo received a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2012. He is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium, where he leads NARMESH, a collaborative project on contemporary narrative and the nonhuman. His work has appeared in journals such as New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, Poetics Today, and Narrative. He is the author of three books: The Experientiality of Narrative: An Enactivist Approach (De Gruyter, 2014; honorable mention for the Perkins Prize of the International Society for the Study of Narrative); Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction (University of Nebraska Press, 2016); and A Passion for Specificity (coauthored with psychologist Russell Hurlburt; Ohio State University Press, 2016).

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Living Within Narrow Limits1. Strange Spaces2. The Cosmology of Everyday Life3. Sex and the Cosmos4. Posthuman Time Faces the Hard Problem5. Bodies from Outer Space 6. The Wide, Wide Cosmos Coda: And So What? References