Dr. Marco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English at Ghent University in Belgium. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and other media (especially video games). He is the author of several books, including most recently On Soulsring Worlds: Narrative Complexity, Digital Communities, and Interpretation in Dark Souls and Elden Ring (Routledge, 2024) and Figures of Complexity in Contemporary Fiction (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). Between 2017 and 2022 he was the PI of the ERC Starting Grant project “Narrating the Mesh: Ecology and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Fiction and Oral Storytelling.” In 2024 he served as the President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.