Acknowledgements
The book was made possible by the Academy of Finland funded project #269499, Out of the Ordinary. The editors would like to thank the Academy for the funding. Thanks also to Brill for taking the book into their programme, and especially to Christa Stevens and Theo Joppe for their invaluable assistance. Thanks also to Ira Hansen for her help with the book. Thanks to Centro de Estudos Anglísticos da Universidade de Lisboa (ULICES) and Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento (UST) for hosting us during the project. We would also like to acknowledge the helpful input from John McLeod, Ana Mendes, Lisa Marchi and Jopi Nyman at our writing workshops in Turku. Your keen engagement with the project is invaluable and shows in the final product even where not explicit. Warm thanks to Tabish Khair who did not hesitate when asked to contribute the Foreword to the collection.