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I came home last night and found this box! So, yes, it’s official and I feel proud and I feel grateful: my book is here! Thanks to @foxxphelan and Katra (and Faye), incredible editors of the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series 🧵

My paper on @akhilsharma and @Shteyngart appears in @RaeiJournal’s special issue on #CruelMeritocracy—many thanks to the best editors @vgnpgn and @laura_rse 🧑‍💻doi.org/10.14198/raei.… @assemblagelit @litcae

#CFP: "(Un)Narrating the West: Literature, Politics, and the Frontier Unconscious." Join @MarcoPe3lli and me at the 28th AISNA Conference 2025 (Bergamo, Italy) on Sept. 11-13 ✨ Send abstract + bio by Feb 28. + Info: shorturl.at/bheSJ

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The deadline for submissions to our annual conference has been extended to December 1st! We welcome scholars working on all aspects of narrative - we hope to see you there! scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/nc-25

📨 Submissions for the July 2025 special issue 'Cruel Meritocracy in 21st-Century U.S. Literary Narratives' are now open! 👀 See our call for papers for further details: raei.ua.es/announcement/v…

📢@RaeiJournal Cluster Cfps Alert We invite submissions for a @RaeiJournal cluster on meritocracy in C21 U.S. narratives. Essays due January 15, 2025. More details: raei.ua.es/announcement/v… @laura_rse

😌There’s still time to submit a paper proposal! (@laura_rse and I coordinate panel *18*) ✨‼️

Studying narrative? Want to join the ISSN in sunny Miami? Submit a proposal for the 2025 ISSN Conference! Hosted by our friends at the Science & Fiction Lab at @FIU We are especially invested in supporting work by early-career and non-US scholars: scienceandfiction.fiu.edu/nc-25-cfp

Please consider joining us in Alicante: @laura_rse and I are looking for papers that explore the formal and thematic intensifications, ruptures, and reshuffles characterizing post-postmodernist narratives of American unfulfilled dreams web.ua.es/es/saas2025/do…

Want to keep up with events, conferences, and announcements? Want to ask advice about teaching and research, or see what your fellow narrative theorists are reading? Join our listserv! Everyone is welcome to join, even if you aren't an ISSN member. thenarrativesociety.org/join-the-narra…

📢Have a look at this CFP for an online conference on Sally Rooney's ouevre co-organised by team member @ElsaAdan_Unizar. More info here!👇

Today in #eaas2024 panel "Tales of American (Broken) Dream Jobs in Contemporary Immigrant Narratives"🌎 team members @vgnpgn & @laura_rse presented 2 exceptional papers on Weike Wang's 𝐽𝑜𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦 & Imbolo Mbue's 𝐵𝑒ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐷𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑠, respectively!👏

Come join us on March, 21-22 for our international conference "Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World" where scholars in the field of Blue Humanities will address the multifaceted dimensions of water! See the full program here 👇sites.google.com/view/narrative…

We are happy to invite you all to the theatrical performance "Troubled Waters: Performance of Waters". The show will stage the complex relationship between water and humanity in the Anthropocene, intertwining poetry, live music, and movement. The event is free. Save the date! 👇

@GulsinCiftci Hope it’s useful!

@GulsinCiftci read.dukeupress.edu/poetics-today/…

@amstudiesunito Some of their projects: (1) annotation betweentheworldandme1.wordpress.com (2) companion giuliaandlaraproject.wordpress.com (3) distant reading arezoo8.wordpress.com/2024/01/22/why… (4) mapping, distant reading, and more charlesbukowskiswomen.wordpress.com (5) visualization aradfr.github.io/A-Week-On-Conc…

So proud of my students who just gave incredible presentations of their dh projects. They worked hard and it showed 🌱 #dhunito23 @amstudiesunito

We are thrilled to announce that the winner of the 2024 Perkins Prize for the book making the most significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year is Marco Caracciolo's SLOW NARRATIVE AND NONHUMAN MATERIALITIES

We've recently transitioned to a new listserv. We're always excited to welcome new folks to join our discussions - and you don't need to be a Society member to join (but we certainly encourage it!). Interested in joining? Find out more information here: thenarrativesociety.org/join-the-narra…

We're at #MLA2024! Visit us at booth 414A or check out our online exhibit page. Through February get 30% off featured books when you use code OSUMLA on our website! ohiostatepress.org/books/exhibits… @EleanorTy @vgnpgn @drpadawson @cookie_goth @LBiggie16 @malsall @HalloranVivian @mckeekee