Acknowledgements

We wish to thank the Research Council of Norway for the primary funding of the research project Transcultural Aesthetics. Contemporary Literature and Media Culture (2008–2013). We thank the Faculty of the Humanities (HF) and the former Department of Scandinavian Studies and Comparative Literature (INL) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) for additional funding and support. We also thank all scholars and students who have been affiliated with Transcultural Aesthetics throughout the project period.