Giovanna Colombetti1, Bradley J. Irish2, & Brian Parkinson3
Editorial Team, Emotion Review
1 Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology, University of Exeter
2 Department of English, Arizona State University
3 Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
Aims
Since the first issue of Emotion Review appeared in 2009, the journal has been at the forefront of interdisciplinary thinking about emotion and has stimulated many productive theoretical debates. The new editorial team are proud to join this tradition and excited about the prospects for extending the disciplinary reach of the journal and enhancing cross-disciplinary dialogue. We believe that the combined expertise of our triumvirate provides an ideal opportunity to capitalize on Emotion Review’s strengths and to ensure that coverage of specialist topics remains accessible to readers coming from a wide range of knowledge bases.
As editors, we welcome rigorous and systematic theoretical contributions that bring conceptual clarity to a variety of topics– especially if they allow readers from different disciplines to appreciate their implications for their own research areas. We also welcome suggestions for topics for special sections of the journal and nominations of suitable editors, contributors and commentators who can provide the material to be included in those sections. Our overall aim is to encourage theoretically and empirically informed dialogue about issues that potentially benefit from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Giovanna Colombetti is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK. At Exeter she also leads the Mind, Body, and Culture research strand within EGENIS (the Centre for the Study of the Life Sciences). She has a background in philosophy and cognitive science. Her research is primarily in the area of embodied and situated cognition, with a specific interest in emotion and other affective phenomena. Her approach is informed by a variety of perspectives—mainly, but not only, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, phenomenology, psychology, and, more recently, material culture studies. She is the author of The Feeling Body: Affective Science Meets the Enactive Mind (2014, MIT Press) and is currently working on a second manuscript about the affective role of material objects in our everyday life.
Bradley J. Irish is an Associate Professor of English at Arizona State University, where his primary research focus is the literary and cultural history of emotion. He is the author of Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling (Northwestern, 2018) and Shakespeare and Disgust: The History and Science of Early Modern Revulsion (Bloomsbury, 2023), and the co-editor of Positive Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Manchester, 2021) and The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion (Routledge, 2022). He is also the creator of the online research database Sources of Early Modern Emotion in English, 1500-1700, available at www.earlymodernemotion.net.
Brian Parkinson is Professor of Social Psychology in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, UK, where he leads the Emotion and Social Relations Research Group. His research focuses on the interpersonal and intragroup effects and functions of emotions and deploys a variety of methods including experience-sampling, observation of quasi-naturalistic interactions, and controlled experiments. He is the sole author of Ideas and Realities of Emotion (1995) and Heart to Heart: How Your Emotions Affect Other People (2019), and lead author of Changing Moods: The Psychology of Mood and Mood Regulation (1996, with Peter Totterdell, Rob Briner, and Shirley Reynolds) and Emotion in Social Relations: Cultural, Group, and Interpersonal Processes (2005, with Agneta Fischer and Tony Manstead). His previous editorial positions include being editor in chief of the British Journal of Social Psychology (2004-2009) and Associate Editor of Cognition and Emotion (1998-2003) and Transactions in Affective Computing (2009-2011). Since 2015, he has also been one of the series editors (with Maya Tamir and Danny Dukes) of the Cambridge University Press book series Studies in Emotion in Social Interaction.
