This international conference at the Neubauer Collegium was presented as part of the Second International Congress of the International Society for Fiction and Fictionality Studies / Société internationale des recherches sur la fiction et la fictionnalité, sponsored by the Possible and Impossible Fictions research project at the Neubauer Collegium, ISFFS/SIRFF, the France Chicago Center, the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, and the Institut Universitaire de France.