40th Annual

International Conference on Narrative

Conference Program

April 2–5, 2025 | Miami, FL

Thank you to our partners and supporters:

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 Narrative Society Awards

The Wayne C. Booth Award: Brian McHale

This award recognizes outstanding scholar-teachers who have made sustained contributions to narrative
studies over the course of their careers. The process is comprehensive: a list of nominees is prepared by
the nominations committee (this year, comprised of Paul Dawson, Yoon Sun Lee, and Marco Caracciolo),
a short-list is voted on by the Executive Council of the ISSN, and the final vote is undertaken by previous
Booth award recipients and past presidents of the ISSN.

The 2025 winner, Brian McHale, is an Emeritus, Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor at the Ohio
State University. He was for many years associate editor, and later co-editor, of the flagship journal
Poetics Today. A co-founder and former director of the leading research center, Project Narrative, he is
also a founding member and former president of the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
(ASAP) and a past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN). This
combination of foci—narrative theory and contemporary literature—grounds the scope of his critical
influence.

McHale has been a leading scholar of postmodernism over many decades, authoring Postmodernist
Fiction (1987), Constructing Postmodernism (1992), The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole:
Postmodernist Long Poems (2004), and The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodernism (2015). McHale’s
distinction between ontology as the generic dominant of postmodern fiction and epistemology as the
dominant of modernist fiction has shaped all subsequent studies and framed our understanding of
metafiction and metalepsis among others.

Along the way, McHale has made vital contributions to the study of narrative with incisive articles on free
indirect discourse and thought representation, as well as offering potent new theoretical approaches to
stubborn debates, such as his concept of “weak narrativity” and new ways to think about narrative poetry
and narrative in poetry. His work has graced top journals in the field such as Diacritics, Genre, Modern
Language Quarterly, Narrative, New Literary History, Poetics Today, Style, and Twentieth-Century
Literature.

Alongside his own scholarship, McHale has helped to develop the study and teaching of contemporary
literature through collaborative editorial work. He co-edited, with Randall Stevenson, The Edinburgh
Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English (2006); with David Herman and James Phelan,
Teaching Narrative Theory (2010); with Luc Herman and Inger Dalsgaard, The Cambridge Companion to
Thomas Pynchon (2012); with Joe Bray and Alison Gibbon, The Routledge Companion to Experimental
Literature (2012); and with Len Platt, The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature (2016).

The Barbara Perkins and George Perkins Prize: Katherine D. Johnston, Profiles and
Plotlines
Established in 1994, the Perkins Prize honors Barbara Perkins and George Perkins, the founders of The
Journal of Narrative Technique and the Society itself. The prize, awarded to the book making the most
significant contribution to the study of narrative in a given year, provides $1,000 plus a contribution of
$500 toward the winning author’s expenses for attending the Narrative Conference at which the award
will be presented. The 2024 Perkins Prize committee consists of Erin James, Gretchen Busl, and
Elizabeth Alsop. They have chosen Katherine D. Johnston’s Profiles and Plotlines: Data Surveillance in
Twenty-First Century Literature (U of Iowa P, 2023).

Johnston’s book opens with the simple claim that data surveillance is an “increasingly dominant
technology of narration and characterization in twenty-first-century society” (2). From here, she pushes
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our understanding of narrative in the current moment in two provocative directions. First, she uses tools of
narrative analysis to grapple with the role that Big Data plays in our lives. Likening algorithmic data
profiling to character development, surveillance to point of view, and data points to plot points in tales of
the political economy, Johnston makes the persuasive case that narrative and Big Data are intimately
intertwined, such that “Big Data has a narrative dimension” (26). Accordingly, she writes, literary
criticism—and narrative studies in particular—is essential to answering questions about the authorship,
narration, and reception of algorithmic profiles and plotlines.

Second, she turns to contemporary literature to illuminate what algorithms “cannot or do not” account for.
In detailed close readings of novels and poetry, including work by Jennifer Egan, Claudia Rankine,
Mohsin Hamid, and William Gibson, Johnston tracks how each text “carries a set of affordances that
constructively re-pace and respace our encounters with data surveillance” (3). Her analysis of this work
runs the gamut of narratological topics, from omniscience and pacing to the second-person address and
the fictionality of self-help books. Especially potent is the book’s conclusion, which traces not only the
influence of data aggregation on the contemporary publishing industry via the resurgence of genre fiction
as driven by Amazon’s increasingly specialized and individualized recommendations to readers, but also
the influence of Big Data on the very process of reading itself, as Alexa, Goodreads, and Kindle transform
an “otherwise intimate activit[y] into fungible figures that can be used to nudge consumer behavior” (146).

Johnston’s book is a testament to the power of narrative. It both locates narrative in surprising places to
showcase its foundational importance in our lives and looks to narratives to expose what might otherwise
remain in the blind spots of technology. That she manages to achieve this in lively and accessible prose
is testament to her own narrative prowess.

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The Perkins Prize committee for 2025 (for books with a 2024 copyright date) will be chaired by Yoon Sun
Lee. More information will follow soon via the Narrative listserv.

The James Phelan Prize for Best Essay in Narrative: Jennifer Noji, “The Implicated
Reader”
The award designates the outstanding essay in each volume of the Society’s journal, Narrative. The
award is named in honor of James Phelan, who has served as editor of the journal from 1992 to 2024.
This year, the judging committee, consisting of Dorothee Birke, Divya Dwivedi, and Brian McAllister, has
awarded the prize to Jennifer Noji for “The Implicated Reader: Second-Person Address in Novels of US
Imperialism” (January 2024). This article offers an innovative conceptualization of reader address, thus
providing profound insights into the ethical dimensions of reading and illustrating the sociopolitical
potential of narrative form. Introducing the concept of the “implicated reader,” Noji creates a compelling
lens through which to examine the complex relationship between readers and the structures of violence
depicted in literature. The theoretical framework is not only intellectually rigorous but also highly
applicable across diverse texts and contexts, as demonstrated in the nuanced analyses of three
significant novels addressing legacies of US imperialism. The focus on second-person address as a
narrative device to implicate readers offers a fresh perspective on how narratives can challenge passive
consumption and provoke political responsibility. By reframing reader identification away from empathy
with victims toward recognition of complicity, Noji opens new pathways for understanding how narratives
can engage with social and historical injustices.

Honorable Mention: Cody Mejeur and Chiara Pellegrini, for their work on the special issue “Trans
Narratologies” and their article “Introduction: Contextualizing Trans Narratologies” (May 2024). This vital
intervention offers theoretical tools that underscore the power of narrative as both a site of struggle and a
means of resistance, in a time when trans individuals face growing political and social threats.
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The Alan Nadel Prize for Best Essay by a Graduate Student: Saman Javaherian,
“Unreliable Narration and Falsified Dialogues”
All graduate students who present papers at the conference are invited to compete for the Alan Nadel
Prize for best essay by a graduate student. The winner will receive a copy of a Perkins Prize-winning
book of his, her, or their choice and will be encouraged to expand the winning paper for consideration by
Narrative. In addition, the winner is eligible for $500 toward expenses to attend the conference.

The 2024 judges, Carolin Gebauer and W. Michelle Wang, have decided to award the Alan Nadel Prize to
Saman Javaherian for the paper “Unreliable Narration and Falsified Dialogues in Persian Popular
Romances.” Saman’s paper draws on rhetorical narrative theory to examine a unique manifestation of
unreliable narration in tales by Naqqals—Persian storytellers whose narratives date back to at least the
12th century CE. While the study of narrative reliability has dominantly (though not exclusively) focused
on homodiegetic narration, Saman examines the phenomenon of what he terms “falsified dialogues” in
Persian popular romances to present an unusual case of unreliable heterodiegetic narration. In his paper,
Saman demonstrates not only the manifold consequences of such unreliable narration, illuminating its
challenges for interpretation and ethical engagement, but also draws our attention to how the shift from
oral to written tradition can complicate existing models for understanding narrative reliability.

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To be considered for this year’s Nadel Prize, submit papers electronically as attachments (Word or PDF)
to Ellen McCallum (emc@[Link]) and Katherine Weese (kweese@[Link]). Please title the subject of
your email “2025 Nadel Prize.” Papers must be received by April 30, 2025. They must be unrevised
conference presentations and no longer than 2500 words. While formatting changes, correction of typos,
and the addition of a Works Cited page are expected, changes to the substance of the argument are not
acceptable. The idea is to reward the work presented at the conference rather than the work done
afterwards.

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 Program Overview
Wednesday, April 2
13:00 – 14:30 | Pre-Conference Event @FIU: Science & Fiction Confab
18:00 – 20:00 | Welcome Reception

Thursday, April 3
8:30 – 10:00 Session A | Contemporary Narrative Theory I
10:15 – 11:45 Session B
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:10 – 14:40 – Session C
14:50 – 16:20 – Session D | Speculative Fiction Authors’ Roundtable
16:35 – 18:05 – Session E
18:15 – 19:45 Editor’s Roundtable
20:00 Newcomers’ Dinner

Friday, April 4
8:30 – 10:00 Session F | Contemporary Narrative Theory II
10:15 – 11:45 Session G | Booth Awardee Panel
12:00 – 13:30 Awards Luncheon
13:40 – 15:10 Session H | GCC Panel
15:20 – 16:50 Session I
17:05 – 18:35 Session J
19:00 – 20:15 Keynote Address: Amitav Ghosh
20:30 GCC Annual Meeting Dinner

Saturday, April 5
8:30 – 10:00 Session K
10:15 – 11:45 Session L
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break
13:15 – 14:45 Session M | Pedagogy Panel
14:55 – 16:25 Session N
16:40 – 18:10 Session O
20:30 Dance
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 Detailed Program

Wednesday, April 2

Pre-Conference Event @FIU:

Science & Fiction Confab | 13:00 – 14:30
Graham Center 140, Florida International University
With speculative fiction authors Premee Mohamed & Brenda Peynado

Welcome Reception | 18:00 – 20:00

Hyatt Regency Miami, Riverwalk Terrace

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 Thursday, April 3

Session A | 8:30 – 10:00

A.1
Erin James | Contemporary Narrative Theory I

Denise Wong

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenander

Ella Mingazova

Session B | 10:15 – 11:45

B.1
Simona Adinolfi | Characters in Multiverse Narratives

Jon Hegglund | Dehumanization, Character, and the Ethics of Multiverse Narratives

Luca Diani | Characters' Interactions Across the Multiverse

Gabriele D'Amato | Empathy, Dissonance, and Narrative Stakes: Engaging with Multiversal
Characters

B.2
Yoon Sun Lee | Marxism and Narrative

Yoon Sun Lee | Narrative Requital

Amy R. Wong | Narrating Oblivion in the Victorian Novel & Chinese Film

Libby Kao | Taiwan's Typical Daughter: Narrative Form as Social Reproduction

Kent Puckett | Narrative Theory and Some Forms of Value in Marx

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B.3
[chairperson] | Constructing Identity

Ellen Reeve | The Archeology of Adoption: Tracing the Journey from Birth Through Adoption
using Pre-adoptive Artifacts

Michael Grafals | Narratives of U.S. Latinidad in Second-Generation Cuban-American

Literature

Ian Shaughnessy | Trans Identity, Post-Apocalyptic Collapse, and Narrative Structure in

Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt

B.4
[chairperson] | Resistance and Reform

Nove Chüzho | Narrator-Author in Temsula Ao's "The Last Song": Theorizing the 'Old
Storyteller' Against the Narrative Instance

Alexa Kelly | Plotting Reform?: Fictional and Non-Fictional Narratives of Poverty in Margaret
Harkness's Captain Lobe and William Booth's In Darkest England

Olivier Sales | Narratives of Urban Resistance in French Rap Lyrics

Helga Lenart-Cheng | We and the Water: Marielle Macé's Nos Cabanes (Our Cabins, 2019)

B.5
[chairperson] | Video Games: Ludonarratology; Education

Andrew A. Todd | Digging in the Sandbox: The Forensic Storytelling Mode of Lore-Heavy
Video Games

Emily Joy Bembeneck | The Semi-Fictional Basil: History, Historical Video Games, and
Transmedia Characters

Dylan Foster | Video Game Narratives: Encouraging Education by Focusing on Fun

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 Jason Patrick Leedle | Narrativizing Science Through Games: The Educational Power of Story
Worlds

B.6
[chairperson] | Dystopias

Cheeno Marlo del Mundo Sayuno | Kids of the Future: Representing Dystopian Narratives in
Philippine Children's Literature

Thomas Marin | Draining the Ocean: Imperialist Destruction in The Man in the High Castle

Isabelle Zhu | Roleplaying into Negative Utopia in Porochista Khakpour's Tehrangeles

Oliver Buckton | James Bond's "hideous island:" Tropical Dystopias and the Mythic Narrative
of Ian Fleming's Dr No

Lunch Break | 12:00 – 13:00

Session C | 13:10 – 14:40

C.1
[chairperson] | Forest, Rhizome

Anurati Dutta | Echoes of the Forest: Navigating Folklore, Fear, and Resilience in the Stories
from/of the Sundarbans

Anwesha Chattopadhyay | Code, Covid and the Conservationist in The Overstory and Birnam
Wood

Laura Tosi | Victorian Forests: How to Turn "As You Like It" into a Narrative for Young
Readers

Christopher Pierre Jolivette | 'There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre':

Rhizomatic Narratology and Play with Potentiality in Slaughterhouse-Five

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C.2
Monika Kaup | Climate Fiction and Ecologies

Monika Kaup | Greening Practical Judgment: Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide and Antonio
Scurati's La seconda mezzanotte

Emily Anderson | Narrative Trees

Xanthe Amanda Muston | Networked Thinking: Locating Fictional Narratives within the
Matrix of Media Ecologies

Gerald Prince | Time, Weather, and Narration in Raymond Queneau's "Saint Glinglin"

C.3
Alex Cornelius | Climate Ethics and Postcolonialism

Nathalie Egalite | Fanon's Critical Phenomenology: A Counterethic for Narrative Medicine

Caylee Weintraub & K. Blasco Solér | "The Glow of this Living Light”: Seeing Bioluminescence
and Climate Catastrophe in Florida and Haiti

Kara Lum Frasca | "And it's the men that count": Postcolonial Ecofeminism in The Word for
World is Forest

C.4
[chairperson] | Generative AI; Large Language Models

Daniel Raffini | Redefining Literary Genre: The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Creation and
Analysis

Jill Walker Rettberg | Narrative Bias in AI: Do Large Language Models Replicate and
Exaggerate Narratological Structures?

Erica Christine Haugtvedt | Generative AI and Massive Energy Usage: The Unnarratable
Seriality of Computational Labor

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C.5
Brian Richardson | Omniscient Narrators; Intrusive Authors

Noah Mastruserio | Makeshift Gods: Contemporary Solutions to the "Problem" of

Omniscience

Pia Masiero | "The Not-Told and Absent as the Most Audible and Present": Michael
Cunningham's Day

Antonio J ("Joey") Ferraro | Impossible Fictions: Authorial Intrusion and the Value of
Literature in James Alan McPherson and John Edgar Wideman

C.6
[chairperson] | Narrative Theory and Energy

Isidora Cortes-Monroy | Fuelling Plot: Reading for Energy in Electric Man (2016)

Sean Singh Matharoo | The Tragic Character of Jean Racine's Phèdre (1677): Enmeshment,
Structuralism, Nominalism, Solarities

Eric Berlatsky | Plagiarism as/and Climate Solution: The Case of Ian McEwan's "Solar"

C.7
JoeAnn Hart | The Non-Human World and Climate Emergencies in Fiction

JoeAnn Hart

Julie Carrick Dalton

Sharon J. Wishnow-Ritchey

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Session D | 14:50 – 16:20

D.1
Maria Mäkelä | Authors of the Story Economy: Narrative and Digital Capital in
the 21st-Century Literary Field

Maria Mäkelä | Narrative and Digital Capital: Conceptual and Methodological Foundations

Paul Dawson | Authorial Performance, Racial Identity, and Paratextual Unreliability in the
Digital Literary Sphere

Laura Piippo | The Fictive Author in the Absence of Self: Jaakko Yli-Juonikas and the
Reimagining of Literary Authorship

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar | "Boy, I'm so Ashamed to be Dutch!" Narrative Authority of a

Refugee Writer

D.2
[chairperson] | Music

Frank Falisi | Demon City Overgrowth: Chuquimamani-Condori and Un-mastered Eco-

narratives

Zoltan Varga | Songs of Water

Gracie Anne Gurr | They'll Put Up a Parking Lot, and We'll Miss Paradise

Giedre Straksiene | Three Roles of Drama as a Method for a Narrative Inquiry: Structure,
Meaningful Context, and Aesthetic

D.3
Steve Denison | Poetry

Steve Denison | Finding Inspiration in the Arts to Solve Climate Change

Annie Kim | Deixis in Legal and Poetic Narratives of Environmental Destruction

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Hallie Hofherr | The Power of Discourse in Shakespeare's "Venus and Adonis"

Ning He | Re-narrating Classics in Contemporary British Poetry

D.4
Nicholas Ray Cabezas | Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun

Justin Omar Johnston | Narratives of Solar Energy and 'Declinism' in Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara
and the Sun"

Hae Jin Yang | Narratives of Faith in Spielberg's "AI" (2001) and Ishiguro's "Klara and the
Sun" (2021)

Sam R. Schwartz | Narrative Strategies for Humanizing AI: Kazuo Ishiguro's "Klara and the
Sun"

D.5
[chairperson] | Beginnings and Endings

Eyal Segal | What Does "The Beginning of this Story" Actually Begin?

Katra Byram | "Everyone wants a complete story": What Happens When Narrative Worlds
Collide

Faye Halpern | "A nightmare Spider from beyond time and space": Why the Endings of Horror
Novels Often Fail

D.6
Krystyna Wieszczek | Meta-

Shaye Easton | What Is the Metaleptic Object?: Towards a New Theory of Metalepsis

Rebekah Dianne Love | "Too Much of Myself!": Wilde's Aesthetic Horror and the
Inescapability of the Self in the Picture of Dorian Gray

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 Erin Mayo Temple | (Neo-)Victorian Narrative Voice: Continuities with the Past and the
Present in Hindsight

D.7
Rhona Trauvitch | Speculative Fiction Authors’ Roundtable

Premee Mohamed

Brenda Peynado

Session E | 16:35 – 18:05

E.1
Timothy Miller | Human and More-than-human Agencies in Speculative Climate
Fiction

Timothy Miller | Plant Fantasies: Narrating Plant Lives in Richard Powers's The Overstory

Stacey Balkan | Bicycling in Paradise: On Radical Cadence and Just Futures in the End Times

Carissa Ma | Queering Death and Waste: Ecological Reimagining in The Waste Tide

Taryne Jade Taylor | Climate Apocalypse in Caribbean Futurisms: Hope and Transformation
in the Post-Apocalypse

Jonathon Parker Yontz | The Lost Language: How Nonhuman Agency is Centralized in
Richard Powers’ The Overstory

E.2
Shenhao Bai | Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island

Arnab Dutta Roy | Empathy in the Era of the Anthropocene: The Ethics of Care in Amitav
Ghosh's The Gun Island

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Suvankur Sukul | "Why would anyone make a dhaam (temple) in a swamp?": Amitav Ghosh's
Gun Island and the Analytic of Instability

Anjali Prabhu | Water and Narrating the Global Climate Crisis: Amitav Ghosh's "Gun Island"

E.3
Helen Davis | Gender and Queer Studies

Helen H. Davis | Reclaiming the Unnarratable through Narrative Co-construction in Torres'

Blackouts

Chigozirim Miracle Nwaosu | Coming Out of the Closet

April Gilbert | Narrating Female Friendship in the Woman-Authored Epistolary Novel

Alice Gaber | Minimal Narrativity: the Test of Archaic Greek Lyric

E.4
[chairperson] | Theater and Film

Jerry W. Carlson | Performing Spirits: Non-Human Narration in Two Cuban Films

Sam Collier | Scene Change: Sci-Fi Plays for the Climate Crisis

Mary McDermott | Interactive Films & Engagement: Challenging Narrative Film Paradigms

Myles Jeffrey | Failure IS an Option: Cinematic Storytelling After Environmental Collapse

E.5
[chairperson] | Contemporary Czech, French, German, and Spanish

Jitka Koudelková | Ecocritical Perspectives in Contemporary Czech Prose

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 Riccardo Barontini | Climatic Metonym in French Contemporary Novel

Marcel Foerster | Nature Simulation in Contemporary German Climate Change Fiction

Colleen Culleton | Voicing the Collective in Snow White's Father by Belén Gopegui

E.6
Mengchen Lang | Fictionality

Mengchen Lang | Fictionality and Science after the Death of the Novel: Understanding
Benjamín Labatut's Generic Experimentation

Jeppe Barnwell | Fictional Documentarism: A Challenge to Concepts of Fictionality

Dana Glaser | Nonfictional Desire: Factual Narrative's Forms of Explanation

Saman Javaherian | Spider Killer Across the Narrative-Verse: Fictionality and Ethics in
Historical Fiction

Editors’ Roundtable | 18:15 – 19:45

Yoon Sun Lee | Onward! Narrative, Past and Present

Jim Phelan

Marta Figlerowicz

Kent Puckett

Newcomers’ Dinner | 20:00

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 Friday, April 4

Session F | 8:30 – 10:00

F.1
Erin James | Contemporary Narrative Theory II

Daniel Aureliano Newman

Virginia Pignagnoli

Katherine Johnston

Session G | 10:15 – 11:45

G.1
Paul Dawson | Booth Awardee Panel

Eyal Segal | Postmodernist Fiction: a model theory of the middle-range

Amy Elias | Premature Pomo: McHale’s Prevenient Base

W. Michelle Wang | Tendencies toward the Complex Whole

Brian James McAllister | Segments, Erasures, and Difficult Wholes: Narrative in Poetry

Brian McHale | Respondent

G.2
[chairperson] | Cognition; Focalization

Ryohei Hashimoto | The Issues of Embodied Simulation in Embodied Narratology

Lorna Martens | Echoes of Kafka in Anna Burns's "Milkman"

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Hailin Wang | End of Life: Estranging, Experimenting, Experiencing in Christine Brooke-
Rose's Life, End of

G.3
Rebekah Dianne Love | Pop Culture

Caleb Hays | Reading the Multiverse: "Everything Everywhere All at Once" as Narrative
Gymnasium

Rachel Jurasevich | "Armitage Hux Needs a Hug": Paratext and Narrative Ethics in Fanfiction
Previews

Lorraine Nasser | Coercive Control in Contemporary Popular Fiction

Josh Mishaw | Forensic vs. Springboarding Fandom: What's Romance Got to Do with It?

G.4
[chairperson] | Violence

Suk Koo Rhee | Ideology in Conflict: Biases and Contradictions within Ty Pak's Guilt Payment

Rebecca Shaw | Domestic Abuse Service Providers and their Stories

Michaela Moura-Kocoglu | Narrative Silence, Powerful Voice: Violence, Trauma, and

Survivance in Alexis Wright's The Swan Book

G.5
Nicole Roberts | Narrating History; Narrating to Heal

Ada Cheng | Against the Primacy of Debates: Cultivating Empathy, Justice, and Healing via
Storytelling

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Mahmoud Abdelhamid Khalifa | Tenuously Maintained Space: Decolonizing Settler Colonial
Space and Mapping Indigenous Returns in Mapping my Return by Abu Sitta, and Return: A
Palestinian Memoir by Ghada Karmi

Krystyna Wieszczek | An Empirical Study of Narrative Impact on Individual Empowerment

Marnie Campagnaro | Rivers as Storytellers: Flood Narratives and Human-Environment

Connections in Children's Literature

G.6
[chairperson] | Politics and Narrative

Siddharth Srikanth | The Geopolitical Unconscious of Strivers as Character Types

Ilaria Filograsso | The Political Potential of Children's Literature: The Story of Migration in
Armin Greder's Picture Books

Adam Kerker | Thinking, Acting, Interrupting: The Octopus and Frank Norris's Aesthetics of
Interruption

Ning He | The Imagination of Global South through the Indian Ocean Writing: A Case Study
of Amitav Ghosh’s Gun Island

G.7
Shenhao Bai | Memory

Luke Rodewald | Memories of the Mundane: Climate, Narrative, and Disaster Proximity in
Contemporary Memoirs

Anthony Tiger Vitiello | Nostalgia as Satirical Instrument, the Zombying Effect of

Consumerism: Unmasking the Fragile Underbelly of American Capitalism in Ling Ma's
Severance

Puleng Segalo & Tinyiko Chauke | The Forgotten Ones: On Memorialising the Life of
Nokukhanya Luthuli

Elise Talgorn | The More-Than-Human Interview A Comics-Based Approach for Eco-

Entangled Memories

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G.8
[chairperson] | Women's Voices

Claudia Matus | Reimagining Biodiversity: Feminist Narratives for Climate and Social Justice

Simone Drake | I Am a Woman: Crafting Counter-Narratives

Caroline Martin | Seeing is Believing: Focalization as Epistemological Restriction in New

Woman Short Fiction

Rotem Cohen | The Feminine Journey: Heroine Archetypes in Art, Psychology and
Neuroscience

G.9
[chairperson] | Linear, Non-linear

Malcah Effron | Linear Discourse v. Chronological Story, Or Why a Narrative Is Always a Co-
constructed Object

Sean Yeager | "I have seven limbs, so that was very relatable": Interviewing Autistics about
Time, Kinship, and Science Fictional Narratives

Adam Manfredi | The Future of Japan's 1968

David Haas | The Persistent Pleasures and Puzzles of Narrative in Untexted Music

G.10
[chairperson] | Adaptation and Resilience: Raising Marginalized Voices; Raising
Nature's Voice

Julia Hoydis | Plotting Possible Futures: Realism and Adaptation in Cate Bush's Blaze Island
(2020) and Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood (2023)

Aryaa Singh | Ecocritical Perspectives in Han Kang's The Vegetarian and "Fruit of My
Woman"

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 Stephanie Anderson | The Saving Grace: How Women are Adapting our Food System to
Climate Change

Bhamidipati Sai Vaishnavi | Integrating Peter Hühn's Narratological Approach with Porter
Abbott's Explication of Narrative Elements for a Holistic Narratological Analysis of Lyrics:
Foregrounding Econarrative in Jayanta Mahapatra's "Starting Point"

Awards Luncheon | 12:00 – 13:30

Session H | 13:40 – 15:10

H.1
Emma K. McNamara, Ellen Stenstrom, Alice Gaber, Ella Mingazova | GCC Panel |
Applied Narrative Studies: Narrative Theory in Practice

Anne Langendorfer | Public Writing and Community Engagement

Anjalee Nadarajan | Youth Goal Setting and Math

Claudia Carroll | Computational Text Analysis/AI Narratology

Cody Mejeur | Video Games

Deborah de Muijnck | Cultural Modes of Narrative Identity

Erin James | Environmental Science and Lab Work

Fiona Ramsey | Non-Academic Communications

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar | Narrative Consultancy for Business and Organizations

Samuel Evola | Pedagogy and Community Engagement

H.2
Rhona Trauvitch, Ilija Rašović | Fi-Sci Institute Symposium: FIU & UoB, pt. I

Ilija Rašović

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Kate Balug

Diana Spencer

Alain Duran

Kylee Goode

Michael Grafals

H.3
Virginia Pignagnoli | Narrative Form, Ideology, and the Digital Sphere

Marco Caracciolo | Fictional Imaginaries of AI Narration

Brian James McAllister | The Garden of Everything: Open World Gaming and Landscape
Rhetoricity

Torsa Ghosal | Banality of AI-generated Narratives and the Algorithmic Governance of

Immigration

Simona Adinolfi | Trust and Digital Media in Ted Chiang's "The Truth of Fact, The Truth of
Feeling"

H.4
Loretta Brady | Breaking Silences: Narratives to Engage Action from Page to Play

Suzanne Delle | Directing "Because They Have No Words," A Post-Katrina Animal Rescue
Story by Playwrights Tim Maddock & Lotti Pharriss Knowles

Loretta Brady & Olivia Jules McGuire | Narrative Game Design and the Creation of "Lily's
Journey"

Billy Chançard Karugira & Sarah Tillery | Creating Break the Silence: A Zine Based Game to
Engage Climate Adaptation

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H.5
Mari Hatavara | What Goes Without Telling. Environmental and Political
Perspectives on the Unspeakable and the Unnarratable

Mari Hatavara | The Said and Unsaid in Parliamentary Narrative Contestation

Amy Elias | Coal and the Corporeal Space of Dialogics

Lindsay Holmgren | "Near-record low pressure" In the Eye of the Storm

Amy Shuman | Producing Cultural Silences in Political Asylum Narratives

H.6
[chairperson] | Climate and Indigenous Health

Fabio Zuker | Narrating Climate-Environmental Transformations in the Bananal Island

(Brazil)

Anna Maxine Butler-Koo | "My money is my blood": Rewriting Labour and Land Relations
along the Iron Road in Paul Yee's A Superior Man

Sonja Pyykkö | Anxious Environments: Situated Anxiety in Conversion Narratives from

Colonial New England

Rida Altaf | Indra's Narrative Jewels: Microcosmic Narrative Discourse as Hopeful Climate
Resistance in Vandana Singh's "Indra's Web" (2011) and "Reunion" (2021)

H.7
Nathalie Egalite | Health and Well-being

Maria Rovito | Writing the 'Female Condition': Harriet Martineau's Life in the Sick-Room,
Catamenia, and the Failures of 19th-Century Medicine

Andi Sauer | Individualism Post-ROGD

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Jeff Thompson | Narrative Health: Examining the Relationship between the Phenomenon of
Awe with Resilience and Well-being

Cindie Maagaard | Without Shame--"blood and all": Personal Narrative and Forms of
Authority in an Instagram Profile on Sexual Health

H.8
[chairperson] | Anthropocene

Carolin Gebauer | On the Significance of Mobility in Narrative Ecologies of the Anthropocene

Edward A. Adams | Epic History and Epic Science Fiction in the Anthropocene: Edward
Gibbon, George Perkins Marsh, and the Anthropocene

Matthias Klestil | Numeric Language and Anthropocene Narratives in Ecological Footprint

Websites

Dongqiao Chen | Gender Performativity in Hamlet and The Great Gatsby

H.9
[chairperson] | Visual Storytelling

Daniel Momoh Bangura | How the Design and Aesthetics in Digital Graphic Novels Help
Communicate the Origin and Effects of Floods on Urban Communities in Freetown, Sierra
Leone (Mandi Digital Graphics Novel)

Tin Yan Grace Lee | A Show of Hands: The Ethics of Graphic Representations of the Self in
Maus and Cancer Vixen

Cole Morgan | The Itinerant Frame

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 H.10
[chairperson] | Systems and Infrastructure

Daniel Punday | Infrastructure, Mystery, and the Emergence of World Systems

Selina-Marie Leiendecker | Clashing Reference Systems in Kate Sawyer's The Stranding

Yonina Hoffman | Reading the Systemic Form of the Encyclopedic Novel

Youyu Hu | The Invisible Matters: Infrastructure and Climate Transformation in Emily

Mandel's Station Eleven

Session I | 15:20 – 16:50

I.1
Abhirami Ajith Kumar | Temporality

Mikelyn Elizabeth Rochford | "Heavy misadventures fell on the misfortunes": Narrative

Digression, Parody, and the Irish Comic Tradition in Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth

Jack Murphy | The Spatial Lives of Books: Wuthering Heights and its Mass Occupant

Elana Gomel | Zombie Temporality in the Anthropocene

Farahnaz Yamini | Non-human Narrators and their Arguable Humanity

I.2
Rhona Trauvitch, Ilija Rašović | Fi-Sci Institute Symposium: FIU & UoB, pt. II

Mia Kalogjera

Mark Kelley

Evelyn Svingen

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Nathaniel Cadle

Mary Blanchard

Lisa Mueller

I.3
Frederick Luis Aldama | Narrative Ecologies of Latinx Identity and Climate
Activism

René X. Arteaga | Lift ATX: Latinx Wellness and Planetary Sickness

Andrea Mishel Escalante | Gaming a Borderland Eco-Activism in Fortnite

Paloma Ada Aguirre | Eco-Critical Narratives of Latinx Trauma and Joy

I.4
[chairperson] | Materiality

Marina Klimenko | Fluid Forms: Waters' Dissolution in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time
Being

Deepika Bahri | 'The Magic Tree' and the 'Living Mountain': Amitav Ghosh's Sacred Ecology

Hannah Rose Green | Reading Sediment: Material Narrativity and Colorado River Silt

Abhirami Ajith Kumar | The Poetics of Print-Digital Convergence: Rethinking Narratives in S

I.5
Brian Richardson | Reading and Readers: Critical, Historical, and Theoretical
Perspectives

Dorothee Birke | "Reading Fever" Goes Viral

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Robyn Warhol | What Is it Like to Read a Serial?

Brian Richardson | Bad Readers and Faulty Interpreters in Modernist and African American
Fiction

Ines Maria Gstrein | Politics of Communal Reading in Ali Smith's "Public Library and Other
Stories"

I.6
Simona Adinolfi | Reading and Writing: Reader-Response, Teaching Writing

Ciarán Kavanagh | Refiguring Reader-Response: Interpreting for Plural Readers with

Interpretive Frameworks

Soohyun Cho | Reading in the Highlights: Collective Reader Response to Neurodivergence in

Memory Man

Raquel Gordon | Embodied Writing Workshops Exploring Eco-Narratology

Daehyun Won | Teaching Learning Narrative for Perplexed FYC and ESL Students

I.7
Shenhao Bai | Rhetorical Narratology

Erin Elizabeth McConnell | Jesmyn Ward's Savage the Bones: Character Narration in the Eye
of the Many Storms

Ziqi Jin | On Ecological and Reparative Storytelling: The Ethics of Two-Way Narrative
Movements

Jonathan Elmore | Subjunctive Fictions: Theorizing the Interplay between Environmental

Journalism and Climate Fiction

Kayla Goldblatt | In Name Only: The Nominal Character and Questions of Minimal Salience

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I.8
[chairperson] | Posthumanism: Beyond Human; Bioarchitecture; Biopolitics

Arka Mukhopadhyay | Agency, Narratives, Climate Change: Lessons from Akira Kurosawa's
Rashomon

Gaspard Turin | The Black Box of Animal Consciousness: The Example of Eo (Skolimowski,
2022)

Alfredo Andia | Exploring Architectural Narratives in Synthetic Biology

Irene Seungwon Nam | Exploring Biopolitics through Female Narrative: Bare Life and
Normalization in Bong Joon-ho's Okja and Hang Kang's The Vegetarian

I.9
[chairperson] | Speculative and Science Fiction: Construction, Deconstruction;
Responses to Climate Change

Yi Wang | A Cognitive Narratology Approach to Cyborgs: Deconstruction of Emotional

Exceptionalism as Construction of Posthuman Subjectivity in Cinder

Ellen Peel | Constructing Bodies, Deconstructing Certainties: Frankengenre's Corrosive

Ironies

Orin Posner | Spatial and Lingistic Maintenance in Science Fiction Narratives of

Environmental Anxiety

Lars R. "Jones" Vadjina | Science Fiction as a Catalyst for Climate Innovation: Lessons from
Space Exploration and Futuristic Technologies

I.10
Nicholas Ray Cabezas | Ecocriticism: Atmosphere and Pollution

Mila Fantinelli | Cairo's Inferno of Pollution: Ecocritical Reading of "The Breeze Hunter" by
Egyptian Writer Mohamed Makhzangi

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 Jason Pearl | Aeronautics and Aerial Ecology

Nicholas Ray Cabezas | The Tourist as Restorationist: Ecocritical Tropes in Super Mario
Sunshine

Session J | 17:05 – 18:35

J.1
Claudia Carroll | Computational Narratology in the Age of AI

Claudia Carroll | Stylometric Analysis of Form in Synthetic Literary Narrative

Kate Elkins

Evelyn Gius

Gabi Kirilloff

David Bamman

Wouter Haverals

J.2
Megan Ashleigh Lolley | Narrative Science: Theory and Practice

Megan Ashleigh Lolley

Jennifer Ladino

Jason Cahoon

Emily Holmes

Tymber Wolf

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J.3
Frederick Luis Aldama | Centering BIPOC Visual Narratives to Radically
Transform Eco-Critical Analysis

Frederick Luis Aldama | Ethnoracial Pause, Eco-Sickness, and the Limits of Latinx Superhero
Narratives

Samantha Ceballos | Latinx Eco-Heroes at the Intersection of Climate Change and Political
Resistance

Rose T. Padilla | Mapping Economies of Thirst in Duffy and Jennings' Parable of the Sower

J.4
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis | Metafiction, Meta-poetry, and Autofiction

Matthew Martello | Metafiction and Poetic Form

Melanie Braith | Storied Storytelling: Orality and Self-Reflexivity in Indigenous Literatures

Marjorie Worthington | Any Resemblance is Purely Coincidental: The Strategic Irony of

Autofiction

Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis | The curious case of God's Wife: A Woman Trapped in Fiction

J.5
Shan Ruan | Time (Re)Experienced Through Narrative: Embodied
Representations of Psychological Realities

Shan Ruan | Experiencing Traumatic Time Complexly: Rhetoric and Ethics of Caregiver’s
Fatigue in Aliceheimer’s

Akash Dilip Shetye | Layered Time: Revisiting David Herman's Polychrony Through
Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

Tarun Athmika | Panels, Pain, Pathos: Mad Trauma in Madison Clell’s Cuckoo

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Brian McHale | Respondent / Discussant

J.6
Valentina Montero Román | Situating the Mind in Narrative

Valentina Montero Román

Blakey Vermeule

Ittai Orr | "Mere Observation and Admeasurement": Race and the Visibility of Intelligence in
Edgar Allan Poe's Detective Fiction

Janet W. Lyon | The 'Mind' of Intellectual Disability in Modernism

J.7
Kelly A. Marsh | Scale

Glenn Deer | Narrating the Anthropocene: Viewpoint and Scale in Climate Change Narratives

Grzegorz Maziarczyk | The Novel as Hyperobject: Multiscalarity and Multimodality in Steve

Tomasula's Ascension

Ghulam Yaseen | The Gaps, The Scale, and Contemporary Novel in Anthropocene

Kelly A. Marsh | Narrating the Scale of Marriage in E. M. Forster's Howard's End

J.8
Claudia Breger | Ecologies of Fabulation

Claudia Breger | Fabulating Ecological Revolt

Thomas Preston | Cinematic Dances with Convention

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Hazel Rhodes | The Paleoecology of the Artist: Else Lasker-Schüler's Prehistoric Fabulations

J.9
Samuel Baker | Modernist Elements--Whether Fast or Slow

Cobi Chiodo Powell | "Dracula" and a Proto-modernist Poetics of Speed

Julia Isler | "It ain't getting no fairer out dere": Narrative Form and Ecological Justice in Their
Eyes Were Watching God

Shaomin Zheng | Enumerative Slow Narrative and the Ecological View of "Ontic Matter"

J.10
Ellen Stenstrom | Narrator: First-Person, Second-Person, Unreliable

Marianne Fish | The Public-Private Dynamic in Representations of First-Person

Consciousness in Jean Rhys

Emma K. McNamara | Protagonists as Surrogate Narrators

Annjeanette Wiese | "We Can't Both Be Me": Narrative Disruptions as Ordinary Course of
Events in Kathryn Harlan's "Is This You?"

Michael Hannan | Narrating Mortality: Never Let Me Go, Unreliability, and the Triple Ironic
Gap

Keynote Address | 19:00 – 20:15

Amitav Ghosh

GCC Annual Meeting Dinner | 20:30

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 Saturday, April 5

Session K | 8:30 – 10:00

K.1
Sarah Copland | Analyzing Fictionality in Literary Fiction

Sarah Copland | Imagining Imagining the Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: The Risks and
Rewards of Fictionality Squared

Jim Phelan | Fictionality and the Why of Unreliable Narration

Henrik Zetterberg-Nielsen | Ten Theses about Analyzing Fictionality

K.2
Iqra Raza | Mapping Resistance: Narrating Histories, Bodies, and Ecologies
Across Global Landscapes

Iqra Raza

Muhammad Nurul Islam | Narrating Ecoprecarity in the Ship-breaking Industry of

Bangladesh

Abigail Mengesha

Aishwarya Sahi | The Blood of Its Small Body: Corporeal Cartography in A Map to The Door of
No Return

K.3
Thomas Marin | Worldbuilding

Lara Cahill-Booth | After the Rise...Miami's Speculative Futures

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Samantha Tonkins | Atlanteans in the Neighborhood: Nonfictionality and World-collaging in
Urban Fantasy

Austin Richard Eldridge | Narrative Empathy in Video Game Story Worlds

Jacki Fitzpatrick | LEGOS: An Expressive Resource in Storytelling across Early-middle

Childhood

K.4
[chairperson] | Postcolonialism; We-narration

Chiara Xausa | A Postcolonial Reading of Inconstant We Narratives: Lydia Millet's A

Children's Bible and Imbolo Mbue's How Beautiful We Were

Debby Rosenthal | Climate Change and We-Narration in Lydia Millet's A Children's Bible

English Brooks | Lands of Monumental Dissonance: Varieties of and Responses to Settler

Colonial Nostalgia and Ecological Violence in Public Memory across North America

Maya Klein | The Thrill and Discomfort of Literature: Waiting for the Barbarians in Tel Aviv

K.5
Christopher Hebert | Ecological Trauma

Nicole Shelly-Ann Roberts | Intensified Vulnerabilities and Resilience in Antes que llegue la
luz by Mayra Santos Febres

Christopher Hebert | Ecological Trauma in Contemporary African Literature

Michal Roth | Shadows of the Voiceless: Unveiling Animal Trauma in Human-Centric

Literature

Chen Edelsburg | "One-Eighth of What Flowed Through Her Veins Was Vegerable Lymph:"
Primo Levi and Climatic Insidious Trauma

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Session L | 10:15 – 11:45

L.1
Marie-Laure Ryan | Many Worlds, Many Lives

Marie-Laure Ryan | Multiverses and Metaverses: Toward a Typology of Many-Worlds

Narratives

Wibke Schniedermann | Torus, Helix, Sphere: Visualizing Many Worlds on Screen

Ted Roy | Time Travel and the Creation and Destruction of Multiverses

L.2
Shannon Lambert | Collective Storytelling in the Anthropocene

Shannon Lambert | Playing with Prompts: Participation, Ecology, and Emergent Narrative in
Experimental Prose and Drama

Ricardo Castro | Collective Storytelling and Ecological Reconciliation: Former Combatants

Narrate Nature in Post-Conflict Colombia

Hongri Wang | Character Focalization and Scale Variance in the Anthropocene

Eric Morel | Whisper Work: Enduring Channels of Women's Corroborating Narrations

L.3
Peggy Phelan | Trauma

Peggy Phelan | Morrison's "Recitatif": Maggie and the Maternal Recitative

Ellen Stenstrom | Trust Me, I'm an Unreliable Narrator! or, Reclaiming Unreliability in
Contemporary Life Writing

Emma Ruth Bailey | "Deadly Little Demons"?: Reading and Re-Reading Lolita as Horror

Sarah Henstra | Refusing Survival: Narrative Experiments in the Ethics of Giving Up

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L.4
[chairperson] | Gender and Ecology; Gender and Bodily Autonomy

Njoki Mwangi | Econarratological Ethics: Character and Landscape in Annihilation and

Furiosa

Amanda Ciocca & Emma Katherine Mierzejewski | Truck Nuts and Trailer Stickers: Narratives
of Petromasculinity in the American Manosphere

Katherine Jane Weese | Gender and Caring Ethics in Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being

Carolina Villalba | Scenes of Gendered Confinement: Women's Carceral Narratives and

Questions of Bodily Control

L.5
[chairperson] | Water

Melinda Backer | How the World Sees Us: Mapping Our Relations in Ray Nayler's The
Mountain in the Sea

Carol Colatrella | Lessons in Social Responsibility in Remarkably Bright Creatures, The Soul of
an Octopus, My Octopus Teacher, and Secrets of the Octopus

Sarah Boykin Hardy | The Panicked Narrattee: Treading Water in the Floods of Climate
Fiction

L.6
Shenhao Bai | Activism through Art; the Art of Dialogue

Aarti Mehta-Kroll & Rebecca Friedman | Challenging Stigmatizing Narratives through Art

Smriti Verma | Autofiction as Methodology in Contemporary Women's Life-Writing

Beverly Renee Muzii | Transcending Thin Ice: Narrative Humor as a Facilitator of Dialogic
Engagement for Collective Climate Action

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 Charlotte Lindemann | Why Does Detective Fiction Contain So Much Quoted Speech?

Lunch Break | 12:00 – 13:00

Session M | 13:15 – 14:45

M.1
Yoon Sun Lee, Joey Ferraro, Emma K. McNamara, Ellen Stenstrom |
Pedagogy Panel

Sarah Copland

Annjeanette Wiese | The Shape of a Story: Teaching Plot Arcs and Climate Crisis

Daniel Aureliano Newman | Teaching Narration and Focalization with Comics

Sarah Hardy | Teaching as Narrative

Ronit Kuriel

Session N | 14:55 – 16:25

N.1
Tero Eljas Vanhanen | Narrating Scandal: Strategies of Shock, Subversion, and
Controversy

Tero Eljas Vanhanen | Consensually Scandalized: Managing Expectations of Shock in Genre

Fiction

Jan Alber & Deborah de Muijnck | Obsession, Delusion, and the Abuse of Power: Narrative
Techniques of Neutralization in Nabokov's Scandalous Lolita

Clara Verri | Shock and Literal Capital in Karl Ove Knausgård's Morningstar (2020/2021)

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N.2
Josh Toth | Metafiction Revisited

Brian McHale | Sky-writing, or, Meta-Science-Fiction

Ralph Clare | Feeling and Counter-Feeling in Contemporary Metafiction

Jeffrey Severs | DeLillo, Wallace, and U.S. Metafiction's Politics

Josh Toth | Cinematic Autoplasticity

N.3
Lucas Cicarelli Vieira | Narrative and Disability

Alexandra Valint | "My eyes completely fail me": Blindness, Sight, and Narration in Wilkie
Collins's Poor Miss Finch

Court(ney) Felle | The 'Genre' of Chronic Illness: Chronic Pain Patient Narrative-Making

Lucas Cicarelli Vieira | Fugitives and Wanderers: Bodily Identity in Kate and Adam's
Hideaways of East of Eden

Adrianna Michell | The Bildungsroman at the End of the World: Climate Catastrophe and the
Mad Child

N.4
[chairperson] | The Works of Amitav Ghosh

Shailen Mishra | Encountering Tiger: Cross-species Otherness and Its Ethical Representation
in Ghosh's The Hungry Tide

Laura Chiesa | Narrating the Wild

Daniel Hannah | Amitav Ghosh, Henry James: Uncanny Transformations

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Mark Celeste | Narrative Sludge: Allusive Derangement in Climate Fiction

N.5
Daniel Aureliano Newman | Climate and the Limits of Narratability

Simona Bartolotta | "Is There a Hummingbird, Is There a You?": Incompatibility and

Contamination in Jeff VanderMeer's Eco-Anti-Thriller

Joanne Lipson Freed | What's Unnarratable about 'Climate' on Campus?

Toon Staes | Econarratology, Transnational Literature and the Limits of Narrative

Anjalee Nadarajan | Polyphony and Patience Around Climate Change in The Ministry for the
Future

N.6
Myles Jeffrey | Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds

Samuel Baker | Causation, Crisis, and the Counterfactual Imagination in Some Works of
Speculative and Historical Fiction

Shannon Rose Quist | Past Possible Selves in Phantom World Narratives

Caesy Victoria Stuck | How to Make Futures: A Narratological Analysis of Shell's Scenario
Planning in Relation to Climate Change

Erika Harlitz Kern | History's Paradox. Navigating Past Events and the Demand for Narrative
in History Writing

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Session O | 16:40 – 18:10

O.1
Joe McLaughlin | First Person, Third Person, First/Third Person? Challenging
Vision and Perspective in Narrative

Joe McLaughlin | Dickensian Ubiquity: Dickens's Experiments in Omniscience

Morgan Lehofer | Morrison's Private "I": Feminist Re-framings of Narrative Authority in The
Bluest Eye

Zach Gibson | "A Cloth Woven of Stories Told": Narrative Identity in John Barth's Once Upon
a Time: A Floating Opera

O.2
Erin James | Transmaterial Narratology and the Ecology of Narratives

Erin James | Toward a Transmaterial Narratology

Silvia Kurr | Narrating the Lives and Agency of Discarded Things

Josha Calhoun

Nick Koenig

O.3
Rebekah Dianne Love | The Gothic

Rachel McCoy | The Stories We Tell...About Stories: One Hundred Years of Nosferatu

Marina Pingler | Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene: Spectrality, Hyperobjects, and

then Unnaratable in Daniel Kraus's Whalefall

Heidi L. Pennington | The Narrative Structures of Haunting in Victorian Ghost Stories

Carra Glatt | Trompe-l'œil: Neo-Victorian Plotting in Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch

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O.4
[chairperson] | Victorian Narratives; Victorian Ecologies

Inna Livytska | Narrative Scaffolding and Dynamic Emotional Situations: Micropoetics of

Affect in the Victorian Landscape

Samuel Evola | Belonging, Feeling, Knowing: How Shared Thematic Investments Constitute
Genre

Jack Murphy | The Spatial Lives of Books: Wuthering Heights and its Mass Occupant

Dance | 20:30

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