Lars Elleström is Professor of Comparative Literature at Linnæus University, Sweden. He chairs the board of the International Society for Intermedial Studies and has written and edited several books, including Divine Madness: On Interpreting Literature, Music, and the Visual Arts Ironically (2002) and Media Borders, Multimodality and Intermediality (2010). He has also published numerous articles on intermediality, semiotics, poetry, gender and irony.