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It seeks to foster diverse, equitable, sustainable research and research practices among academics, professionals, and independent scholars from around the world. For this purpose, the ISSN provides a range of theoretical, physical, and virtual spaces and platforms that enable and enhance collaboration and knowledge dissemination among a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1622063811415-C2FSZXGJDTCL5LFJADA5/Untitled+design-2.png About the ISSN - The Narrative Journal Narrative is the official journal of International Society for the Study of Narrative. Its mission is to publish essays that contribute to both narrative theory and the interpretation of individual narratives. Within those parameters, the journal is open to work on the elements, techniques, structures, and forms of narrative as well as on its relations to other modes of discourse, its history, and its powers (and limits) in cultures past and present. The journal is interested in narrative across disciplines and across media, and, thus, it welcomes submissions on the theory and interpretation of the novel, the short story, narrative poetry, history, biography, autobiography, memoir, film, television, journalism, comics and other graphic arts, music, performance, legal writing, medical case histories, and more. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1622158125527-A93C4LLEZ2F55XQMMAAK/Copy+of+Copy+of+ISSN+Templates+-5.png About the ISSN - The International Conference on Narrative The Society sponsors the International Conference on Narrative each year. The first conference was held at Ohio State University in 1986, and in subsequent years, the meeting has been held at sites across the United States, Canada, and Europe. At each conference, approximately 350 speakers address issues of narrative from a variety of positions and perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1622062061521-7Q2ZHDEGDVJH0XVUM5ZB/Copy+of+Copy+of+ISSN+Templates++copy+2.png About the ISSN - Membership There are currently approximately a thousand members in ISSN, and new members are always welcome. 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Writing to friends and scholars interested in narrative, they invited them "to join us in founding a Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, which will begin its existence officially in January 1985 with the commencement of the fifteenth year of publication of The Journal of Narrative Technique." The new society was announced in the Fall 1984 issue of JNT and the complete list of Founding Members appeared for the first time in the Winter 1985 issue: Sheridan Baker, University of Michigan David Daiches, University of Edinburgh Terry Eagleton, Oxford University K. J. Fielding, University of Edinburgh Northrop Frye, University of Toronto John MacQueen, University of Edinburgh Ronald Paulson, Johns Hopkins University Barbara Perkins, Eastern Michigan University George Perkins, Eastern Michigan University Samuel Pickering, Jr., University of Connecticut https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/affiliated-organizations daily 0.75 2021-05-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621281845180-TM8TWWSLB9VFDG1SGNAH/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.03.57+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621282771738-ZVYINFLBM043QF1OQR26/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.18.55+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Department of English, Mississippi State University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621283072108-RWPX9XUTTP69TBKMEI2Z/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.24.07+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621283650798-57UR7UIP87KBQRIR4RBE/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.33.29+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Narrative, Culture & Community Research, Bournemouth University https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621283792975-A8BQ680IIB7QHSHCIATU/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.35.45+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies, Tampere University Finland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621284022716-0QTCOYNVZ35DRRBHYWC7/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+4.39.52+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Paris Centre for Narrative Matters, Université de Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621285819608-F00IU3XPH3O45OBKZGYD/Screen+Shot+2021-05-17+at+5.09.06+PM.png Affiliated Institutions - Project Narrative, Ohio State University https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/graduate-student-international-travel-award daily 0.75 2021-05-28 https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/past-conferences daily 0.75 2025-06-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/de8c6d4a-a04b-4e64-8333-5b233eba52d4/Narrative%2B2022.png Past Conferences - Make it stand out University of Chichester, June 28-30 2022 Coordinators: Hugo Frey, Gretchen Busl, Malcah Effron, and Sue J. 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In her research, she is particularly interested in interfaces between narrative and reception and recently in literary practices in digital media ecologies. She has authored two monographs, Memory’s Fragile Power: Crises of Memory, Identity and Narrative in Contemporary British Novels and Writing the Reader: Configurations of a Cultural Practice in the English Novel. Her work has also been published in journals such as Journal of Contemporary Drama in English, Style, Narrative, and Poetics Today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/798ff4d4-10bc-4fbd-8245-e94c963f1b4b/48091503_10216954940762309_3136157232316547072_n.jpg Executive Council - Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen is a professor at Aarhus University. His research has contributed to mainly three areas of narrative theory: first person narration; unnatural narratology; and fictionality. His current project is on human sexuality and the roles of imagination and fictionality in human sexual practices and preferences. Henrik is Vice Chairperson of the equality and diversity committee at AU and heads the research groups Narrative Research Lab and Centre for Fictionality Studies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/faf93d6f-1a28-4a6b-bc24-7ddf61830c54/IMG_2070.jpg Executive Council - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/f4e7b598-24a5-4457-bfa4-e19ff9f11734/Caracciolo+headshot+high+res.jpg Executive Council - Marco Caracciolo is an Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. Drawing inspiration from cognitive science, the philosophy of mind, and the environmental humanities, his work explores the forms of experience afforded by narrative in literary fiction and video games. He is the author of several books, including most recently Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities (University of Nebraska Press, 2022), which was awarded the 2024 Barbara and George Perkins Prize, and Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures (Bloomsbury, 2022). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/06d8622b-6213-4542-8d03-b90dc48452f7/jp.jpg Executive Council - James Phelan (he/him) has been editor of Narrative since 1992 and Secretary-Treasurer of the ISSN since 2003. He is Distinguished University Professor of English and the Director of Project Narrative at Ohio State University. He has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric. Among his many books are Reading People, Reading Plots; Narrative as Rhetoric; Living to Tell about It; Experiencing Fiction; Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010; Somebody Telling Somebody Else; and (with Matthew Clark) Debating Rhetorical Narratology. Since 1993, he has been a co-editor of the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series at Ohio State University Press. He is the recipient of the ISSN’s 2021 Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/f4ed9896-926a-48de-b048-775c59a1111c/Gretchen.jpg Executive Council - Gretchen Busl is a Professor of English and Director of the Quality Enhancement Plan "Amplify Your Impact" at Texas Woman’s University. Her research, which combines studies in narrative theory, rhetoric, world literature, and gender studies, has been published in venues such as Modern Language Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and English Studies. She is the co-editor of the volume Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors and The Process of Becoming: New Directions for the Humanities Dissertation (forthcoming from the Modern Languages Association). A passionate advocate for the public humanities, she is also a member of the ACLS/Mellon-funded Doctoral Futures project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/01196405-6185-4c9d-8f5e-451263ab1400/McAllister+Headshot.jpg Executive Council - Brian J. McAllister is an Associate Professor of English at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. His research in narrative theory focuses primarily on interactions between the concerns of rhetorical narrative theory, ecocriticism, poetry studies, and spatial theory. He is currently writing a study of spatiotemporal and rhetorical disorientation in the Anthropocene, considering ways that ecological conditions implicit in relationships between speaker, audience, and narrative situation complicate current rhetorical approaches to narrative. McAllister’s publications have appeared in Narrative, Diegesis, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, and Science-Fiction Studies, as well as in a number of edited collections. His writing includes studies on the rhetoric of emergence in narrative, geological time in landscape poetry, visual poetry and narrative theory, disorienting narrative space, and science-fiction poetry. McAllister was also the guest editor of a special issue of Narrative on poetry and narrative theory. He currently serves as the chair of the Narrative Society's Sustainability Committee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/e8d0ffef-9c83-469a-b148-88f3fb2de2f5/IMG_4738.jpg Executive Council - Divya Dwivedi is a narratologist and philosopher based in India. She is Asssociate Professor of Philosophy and Literature at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research is concerned with the ontology of the literary, the address function, postcolonial racisms, and Psychoanalysis. Her most recent works include Narratology and Ideology: Negotiating Context, Form, and Theory in Postcolonial Narratives co-edited with Henrik Skov Nielsen and Richard Walsh (Ohio State University Press, 2018), and “The Transitivity of “We” and Narrative Legions” in STYLE 54.1. She is the author of Gandhi and Philosophy: On Theological Anti-Politics co-authored with Shaj Mohan (Foreword by Jean-Luc Nancy; Bloomsbury, 2019). The special issue of Critical Philosophy of Race 11.1 on the caste system in India, guest-edited by her, is forthcoming. Since 2018, Dwivedi is a member of the Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association. With Robert J. C. Young she is currently editing a special issue of Parallax on “Decanonizing Literary Theory”. In November 2020, Dwivedi co-founded a new open access multilingual journal Philosophy World Democracy together with Jean-Luc Nancy, Shaj Mohan, Achille Mbembe, and Mireille Delmas-Marty. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/73c135c0-b7f1-4ed5-aa27-fd312e0d0d88/IMG_20150903_185437.jpg Executive Council - W. Michelle Wang is an Associate Professor of English at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. She also oversees graduate and continuing education, as well as the English double major programmes, in the School of Humanities at NTU. Her research interests include cognitive and rhetorical approaches to narrative, art and aesthetics, and her work has been published in journals such as Narrative, Style, and Critical Studies in Television. Her book monograph, Eternalized Fragments: Reclaiming Aesthetics in Contemporary World Fiction (2020), was published by the Ohio State University Press and she recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to Literature and Art (2024) with Neil Murphy and Cheryl Julia Lee. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/2375d8b8-3025-481f-bbe2-e9d71c848868/fullpicture.jpg Executive Council - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/c1a453ab-4f1b-4a3d-9df8-9c7bc6203a6d/VP_photo.jpg Executive Council - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/13d95c2a-fb7a-4e1f-bcbf-23263a7b600c/unnamed.png Executive Council Emma K. McNamara completed a doctorate at Ohio State University. Her dissertation focusedon representations of girlhood, feminist narratology, and young adult romance. She has master’s degrees in Secondary English Education and Children’s Literature from the University of the District of Columbia and Simmons College, respectively, and is dually certified in Culturally Responsive Literature Instruction from Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is the chair of the Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement, the coordinator of YALSA's Quick Picks for Reluctant Readers, a member of the Children’s Literature Association Article Award Committee, and the 15+ reading group facilitator for Capitol Choices. She has published on Gossip Girl, Harriet the Spy, and urban theory, and is a reviewer for Kirkus and Children’s Books Ireland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/76d96454-54c9-4dc3-bef9-291117258df1/IMG_0741.jpeg Executive Council - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/5170ebd3-e174-4cde-8cb1-ef2269770d9f/IMG_20250909_133034.jpg Executive Council - Antonio J. (“Joey”) Ferraro (he/him) holds a PhD in English from The Ohio State University. He has been a member of the ISSN since 2018, when he attended his first Narrative conference in Montreal. https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/issue-archive daily 0.75 2023-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/059b04dc-232a-4a5b-a8ad-78266c3206c3/front_cover.jpg Issue Archive - Current Issue: 31.2 The current issue of Narrative features a cluster of essays themed around the topic of “authorial house rules,” a concept coined by Zadie Smith to refer to texts that feature direct instructions by authors (real and fictitious) about how to read them. Contributions from Tatyana Gershkovich, Katherina B. Kokinova, Chloë Kitzinger, David Witzling, and Russell Samolsky explore the history, ethics, and rhetoric of the house rules of authors such as Toni Morrison, Vladimir Nabokov, and Chris Ware. Apart from this cluster, Killian Quigley and Rory Kelly explore narratives of climate crisis and the relationship between character development and narrative ethics. Read the entire issue here. https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/wayne-c-booth-award daily 0.75 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/32053289-2731-436b-93fe-2b2c8e8ca2f9/jonathan-d-culler.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/3a344f7e-af4b-4b49-b61c-177ab9f0c014/mchale+pic.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - McHale was presented the award at the 2025 conference in Miami, Florida https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/8c183964-d31a-44d2-b840-85e7769b842c/Monika+Fludernik.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/fbe6f547-e429-4c2d-8af6-17a9247bb2ae/arika_hortensespillers_episode7_alexwoodward_0.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/f43062ac-e4e0-4b32-8efc-365a249b1fc5/warholphoto.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2022 - Robyn Warhol Robyn Warhol was presented the award in Chichester at the hybrid 2022 conference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288268267-X2TH1R5YE03EDU4MU7EF/jp.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2021 — Jim Phelan Jim Phelan was presented with the award at the online conference in 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288377874-LT0S2KC0979RGE3D0FLB/sl.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2020 — Susan Lanser Susan Lanser was presented with the award at the 2020 Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288432628-COLCV98OW929KD0UCRQ4/srk.jpg.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2019 — Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan was presented with the award at the 2019 Conference in Pamplona, Spain. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288473420-67Y5DP0XN6YGERVD77L5/mb.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2018 — Mieke Bal Mieke Bal was presented with the award at the 2018 Conference in Montreal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288562558-PHADB0BD61NQPT3QYPIP/mlr.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2017 — Marie-Laure Ryan Marie-Laure Ryan was presented with the award at the 2017 Conference in Lexington, Kentucky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288597082-EEJ8THFRZYC0I0CWUIDP/ld.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2016 — Lubomir Dolezel Lubomir Dolezel was presented with the award at the 2016 Conference in Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288638709-6AX06SOR9LVI436C7KE8/tt.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2015 — Tzvetan Todorov Tzvetan Todorov was presented with the award at the 2015 Conference in Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288660850-M9S82JKS6DOUPZT3V7SA/hw.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2014 — Hayden White Richard Walsh presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Hayden White at the 2014 Conference at MIT. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288703380-QDCM3NSAB82PPUGDIFL1/prince.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2013 — Gerald Prince Hilary Dannenberg presented the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award to Gerald Prince. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288726497-TFJYW57QI0P04XIGNQ97/sbc.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2012 — Seymour Chatman Dorothy Hale presented the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award to Seymour Chatman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288782649-ZBICNOK8FB2PGK07SHMX/cohn-small.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2011 — Dorrit Cohn Irene Kacandes presented the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award to Dorrit Cohn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288814028-GUSDNS5KRD6LSDT7HVSU/friedman-small.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2010 — Susan Stanford Friedman Suzanne Keen presented the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award to former president of the Narrative Society, Susan Stanford Friedman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288852487-S4APVE3LVED156CD0EVY/genette-small.jpg The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2008 — Gérard Genette Gerald Prince presented the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award to outstanding narratologist Gérard Genette. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621288871552-R9ACU86DSI488D02NUDD/booth-small.png The Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award - 2006 Inaugural Prize — Wayne C. Booth The International Society for the Study of Narrative bestowed its first Lifetime Achievement Award on Wayne C. Booth. 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Episodes will be released monthly and will feature conversations between scholars, activists, writers, and artists. Topics include our/our guests’ understandings of and approaches to “social justice,” the literary canon, feminist/queer/trans approaches, and anti-racist education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621274677601-PMBU9TA1UGK4F1F7EYX7/Gretchen.jpg Narrative for Social Justice Initiative (N4SJ) - Gretchen Busl is Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator for the MA in English and PhD in Rhetoric at Texas Woman’s University. Her research combines studies in narrative theory, rhetoric, world literature, and gender studies. She is the co-editor of the volume Antiheroines of Contemporary Media: Saints, Sinners, and Survivors and has published her work in Modern Language Review, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, and English Studies. She is also a member of ISSN’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee and, as a passionate advocate for the public humanities, is thrilled to serve as one of the co-hosts of the new Narrative for Social Justice podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621274749302-HUAF3DE6HGOERJWFCWTJ/Angela.jpeg Narrative for Social Justice Initiative (N4SJ) - Angela Du is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. Her current work examines how Victorian novelists imagined futures not-yet-here for female protagonists. Her interests include the novel, feminist narrative theory, temporality, character, genre, and periodical studies. She also trains graduate teaching assistants at the university, and her pedagogical interests include online learning and accessibility. Tweets @ang_y_du https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621274832342-FLUAP5LJ8O9HXQJLNAAL/Photo_Carolin+Gebauer.jpg Narrative for Social Justice Initiative (N4SJ) - Carolin Gebauer Carolin Gebauer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Wuppertal. She is part of OPPORTUNITIES, a Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Commission which explores narratives on migration in the public sphere. She is currently working on a book on the cultural history of the representation of mobility in verbal and audiovisual narrative. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621275047409-5NEKNQKNYSQIIXEYRAZ0/Torsa.jpg Narrative for Social Justice Initiative (N4SJ) - Torsa Ghosal is assistant professor of English at California State University, Sacramento, and author of the monograph Out of Mind: Mode, Mediation, and Cognition in Twenty-First Century Narrative (Ohio State University Press, Fall ’21). Her areas of research include narrative theory, cognitive cultural studies, global Anglophone literature, digital media, and multimodality. Her critical essays have appeared in Studies in the Novel, Poetics Today, Storyworlds, and Media-N. She has published on films and comics in Comics Studies Here and Now (Routledge) and The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies (OUP). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621275212691-VO7PSGA8915VB8DFS8S3/Chiara.jpg Narrative for Social Justice Initiative (N4SJ) - Chiara Pellegrini is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at Newcastle University. Her project focuses on contemporary novels and autobiographies with narrators whose gender is other than binary or fixed. Her background is in queer theory, trans studies, narrative studies and continental philosophy. She has recently published two articles: ‘Posttranssexual Temporalities: Negotiating Canonical Memoir Narratives in Kate Bornstein’s Gender Outlaw and Juliet Jacques’ Trans’ (a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 2019) and ‘Adaptation as Queer Touching: https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/issn-book-display daily 0.75 2025-04-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621548505526-1U8GYD9XW4T6OKPQO23F/Copy+of+Copy+of+ISSN+Templates+-5.png ISSN Book Display - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/841268bb-0997-4787-bea1-eb785fa934e5/9781399522922_2.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/d3bbe13f-e9f0-460f-ba72-28f95ec160a4/81ziNcIvaAL._AC_UF1000%2C1000_QL80_.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/3b748711-51cc-4d4c-a66e-b1090f00f2da/content.jpg ISSN Book Display Cognitive Narrative Thematics: A Book About What Books Are Daniel Candel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621447991516-52ADXLM1EL3V20A33UKM/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display Lewis Carroll's "Alice" and Cognitive Narratology: Author, Reader and Characters Francesca Arnavas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448044455-D76ZG2V03VA2CV1G9GBX/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - New Approaches to the 21st-century Anglophone Novel Sibylle Baumbach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1622156658999-0NVW7986KHNNJKW3Z259/9783030753979.jpg.png ISSN Book Display - Victorian Surfaces in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Skin, Silk and Show ( forthcoming) Sibylle Baumbach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448155776-URV28CMH74UO96ALBY8P/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - We-Narratives: Collective Storytelling in Contemporary Fiction Natalya Bekhta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448223542-X80AVE22GCAE36I3JM6T/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights Ana Belén Martínez García https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448255930-ZOHPY35DTEHP1EDIZS7Z/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - Spatial Plots: Virtuality and the Embodied Mind in Baricco, Camilleri and Calvino Marzia Beltrami https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448292322-Y1EWYQ451W4EDQR6BCC4/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene Marco Caracciolo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448413478-3VCD2DLLCMRSZT9OG7QO/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - Musical Stimulacra: Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen Ivan Delzari https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448633814-60FT6LM3TNGWPJTH98C9/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - The Blossom Which We Are: The Novel and the Transience of Cultural Worlds Nir Evron https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448672001-F5VMYDHFA809CDC2VAEA/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - Making Time: World Construction in the Present-Tense Novel Carolin Gebauer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60999fee5b063770b2d521dc/1621448699580-7HRPTGZHVOA5G8438NZ5/image-asset.jpeg ISSN Book Display - The Novel and the New Ethics Dorothy J. 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