Jean-François Vernay is the author of five monographs including The Seduction of Fiction (Palgrave, 2016) and Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature (Routledge, 2021). His monographs have been taken up for translation into English, Arabic, Korean, and Mandarin. He is also (co-)editor of three special issues of international journals and a Routledge volume.

Areas of interest: Cognitive literary studies, Reception theory, Creative writing, Postcolonial theory

Vernay, J.-F. (2016). A Brief Take on the Australian Novel. Wakefield Press.

Vernay, J.-F. (2022). Australian literature and its institutionalization in the offshore playground. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 58(1), 6–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/17449855.2021.1986895

Vernay, J.-F. (2021). Neurocognitive Interpretations of Australian Literature: Criticism in the Age of Neuroawareness. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003161455

Vernay, J.-F. (2016). The Seduction of Fiction : A Plea for Putting Emotions Back into Literary Interpretation. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39453-4