Massimo Salgaro works as Assistant professor of German Studies at the University of Verona. Although his background is in German Studies during the past years he has been working empirically with psycholinguists and neuroscientists to assess the cognitive and emotional effects of literary reading. Current research project on Literary empathy at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt) and Institute for Advanced Study, Paris. http://www.paris-iea.fr/en/fellows/massimo-salgaro-2