Francesca Arnavas is a Research Fellow and Lecturer in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Tartu. She works within the research group Narrative, Culture and Cognition. She has researched and published on Victorian literature, fantasy fiction, cognitive narratology, and literary Victorian and postmodern fairy tales. She is the author of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice” and Cognitive Narratology: Author, Reader and Characters (De Gruyter, Narratologia Series, 2021) and Uncanny Fairy Tales: Hybrid Wonders in the Mirror (Routledge, Series Among the Victorians and Modernists, 2024).