Authors

DAVID HERMAN, who co-founded the Project Narrative initiative at Ohio

State University (http://projectnarrative.osu.edu) and served as its inau-
gural director, teaches in OSU’s English Department. He has authored,
edited, or co-edited eight books on aspects of narrative and narrative the-
ory, and he also serves as editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series
and of the new journal Storyworlds, both published by the University of
Nebraska Press. He was recently awarded a research fellowship from the
American Council of Learned Societies for his 2009 project on “Story-
telling and the Sciences of Mind”.

CHRISTIAN HUCK is principal investigator of the research project “Trav-

elling Goods // Travelling Moods: A Transcultural Study of the Accul-
turation of Consumer Goods, 1918–1939”. He took his PhD at Tübingen
University and received his Habilitation at the University of Erlangen-
Nuremberg. The topics of his publications range from Irish poetry and
18th-century travel literature to rockumentaries and music videos. He is
currently preparing a monograph on Fashioning Society, or, The Mode of
Modernity: Observations of Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

PETER HÜHN is a professor of English Literature, Hamburg University

(retired since 2005) and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nar-
ratology. He has published books and articles on theory of poetry and
history of British poetry, narratology, application of narratology to poetry
analysis, and detective and crime fiction. He is author of Geschichte der
englischen Lyrik (1995), co-author of Der Entwicklungsroman in Europa
und Übersee (2001), Die europäische Lyrik seit der Antike (2005), The
Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry (2005), Lyrik und Narratologie
(2007) and co-editor of the Living Handbook of Narratology (to appear in
2009).

TATJANA JESCH is working on a postdoctoral thesis about theory and em-

pirical experience in the field of narratology and didactics at Jena Uni-

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versity. She is the author of Das Subjekt in Märchenraum und Märchen-

zeit (1998), co-author of Texte lesen (2008), and editor of Märchen in der
Geschichte und Gegenwart des Deutschunterrichts (2003). In addition,
she has published several theoretical and empirical articles on (psycho)-
narratology and on understanding and teaching literature.

TOMÁŠ KUBÍČEK, PhD, is a researcher in the Department of the History

of Literature at the Institute for Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sci-
ences. Until 2008 he was a researcher in the Section Narratology, which
he directed from 2002 to 2007. He also lectures on literary theory, nar-
ratology and literary history in the Department of Czech and Comparative
Literature and Literary Theory at Charles University, Prague. He has pub-
lished studies on narratology, literary theory, Czech literary structuralism,
and Czech prose. He is the author of the books: Intersubjectivity in
Literary Narrative (2007); Vypravěč. Kategorie narativní analýzy (2007);
Vyprávět příběh. Naratologické kapitoly k románům Milana Kundery
(2002). He was editor in chief of the book series Theoretica and is co-
editor of Library of the Possible Worlds.

MARKUS KUHN, M.A., is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Media and

Communication (IMK) at the University of Hamburg and has just finished
his PhD thesis on film-narratology. He studied German language and
literature, media and communication studies, history of arts and jour-
nalism in Göttingen and Hamburg. He works as a freelance journalist for
print and online media. His M.A. thesis on “Narrative Situations in Lit-
erature and Film” was awarded the “Karl H. Ditze-Preis” for outstanding
Master’s theses.

URI MARGOLIN is a professor emeritus of Comparative Literature at the

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He has been working for many
years in the fields of narratology and general literary theory, and has pub-
lished close to 70 articles in collective volumes and professional journals
in Europe and North America.

GUNTHER MARTENS is a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research

Council (FWO), affiliated with the German Department at the University
of Ghent and Visiting Professor of Literary Theory at the Free University
of Brussels. Publications on literary modernism, literature and ethics, and
the relation between rhetoric and narratology. Activities: in 2005, re-

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search stay at the Narratology Research Group Hamburg; in 2007 (jointly

with the Interdisciplinary Center for Narratology Hamburg) and 2008,
co-organizer of the International Narratology Workshops at Ghent
University; in 2008, co-organizer of the Inaugural Conference of the
European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies (EAM).
Most recent publications: E. D’hoker & G. Martens (eds): Narrative
Unreliability in the Twentieth-Century First-Person Novel (2008);
G. Martens & B. Biebuyck: “On the narrative function of metonymy in
Heine’s Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand (Chapter XIV).” Style 41:3 (2007).

JAN CHRISTOPH MEISTER has taught at the University of the Witwaters-

rand, Johannesburg, and at the University of Munich. He is currently
professor of German Literature, Literary Theory and Literary Computing
at the University of Hamburg. His publications include Computing Ac-
tion. A Narratological Approach (2003). Among his major research topics
is the computational modelling of narrative structures and narrative com-
petence in Story Generator Algorithms.

ALAIN RABATEL is a professor of Language Sciences at the University of

Lyon 1 (University Institute for Teacher Training). He specializes in dis-
course analysis, particularly in literary, media, religious and political text
and discourse. He is the author of several books including Une histoire du
point de vue (1997), La construction textuelle du point de vue (1998), and
Homo narrans (2008) as well as of some one hundred articles setting out
an enunciative-interactional narratological approach, working within a
dialogical and polyphonic framework.

BRIAN RICHARDSON is a professor in the English Department of the Uni-

versity of Maryland. He is the author of Unlikely Stories: Causality and
the Nature of Modern Narrative (1997) and Unnatural Voices: Extreme
Narration on Modern and Contemporary Fiction (2006), winner of the
Perkins Prize for the year’s best book on narrative studies. He has written
numerous articles on different aspects of narrative theory, including plot,
time, cause, closure, character, narration, reader response, reflexivity, and
the narratives of literary history. He is the editor of two books, Narrative
Dynamics: Essays on Time, Plot, Closure, and Frames (2002) and Nar-
rative Beginnings: Theories and Practices (2008). He is currently com-
pleting a book on modernism, misreading, and the theory of the reader.

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SABINE SCHLICKERS is a professor of Spanish and Latin American Liter-

ature at Bremen University, Germany. She is the author of Verfilmtes Er-
zählen: Narratologisch-komparative Untersuchung zu «El beso de la mujer
araña» (Manuel Puig/Héctor Babenco) und «Crónica de una muerte
anunciada» (Gabriel García Márquez/Francesco Rosi) (1997), El lado
oscuro de la modernización: Estudios sobre la novela naturalista hispano-
americana (2003) and, most recently, of »Que yo también soy pueta«. La
literatura gauchesca rioplatense y brasileña (siglos XIX-XX) (2007) as
well as of numerous articles on narratology, literature and film.

WOLF SCHMID is a professor of Slavic Literatures at the University of

Hamburg. He founded the Hamburg Narratology Research Group
(www.narrport.uni-hamburg.de) and is currently director of the Inter-
disciplinary Center for Narratology (www.icn.uni-hamburg.de) and ex-
ecutive editor of the series Narratologia. With his Hamburg colleagues,
he founded the European Narratology Network (www.narratology.net).
He has authored Elemente der Narratologie (Russian 2003, 2008; German
2005, 2008) and edited two collections on Slavic narratology.

JÖRG SCHÖNERT is a retired professor of Modern German Literature,

Hamburg University, and member of the Interdisciplinary Center for Nar-
ratology. He has published on the theory and practice of the social history
of literature (with an emphasis on structural and functional text-theoret-
ical models), on the history of the humanities and on problems of literary
theory and methodology. Co-author of Lyrik und Narratologie (2007) and
co-editor of the Living Handbook of Narratology (to appear in 2009).

VIOLETA SOTIROVA is a lecturer in stylistics at the University of Notting-

ham. She has published articles on narrative point of view in the journal
of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, Language and Literature
(“Connectives in free indirect style: continuity or shift?”, 2004, for which
she was awarded the PALA prize for best first publication), in Style
(“Repetition in free indirect style: a dialogue of minds,” 2006) and in
Poetics (“Reader responses to narrative point of view,” 2006). Her
publications also include articles in English Studies (2006), Études Law-
renciennes (2007; 2008) and a chapter in Contemporary Stylistics (2007).
She is currently working on a monograph on consciousness presentation
in modernist fiction.

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MALTE STEIN, former member of the Narratology Research Group, Ham-

burg University, is a teacher at the Hansa-Kolleg in Hamburg, Germany.
He wrote his dissertation on family violence in the novellas of Theodor
Storm (2006), is co-author of Lyrik und Narratologie (2007) and has pub-
lished several articles on the intersection of literature, narratology and
psychoanalysis.

JAN-NOËL THON is a PhD student at Hamburg University, working on a

project in the field of transmedial narratology. He has authored several
conference papers, articles, and book chapters on the theory and aesthetics
of contemporary computer games, focusing mainly on space, interaction,
simulation, narration, communication and immersion.

ROLAND WEIDLE presently holds a position as substitute professor for

English Literature at the University of Hamburg. He has published on
Shakespeare, drama and theatre from the early modern age to the present,
contemporary fiction and transmedial and transgeneric narratology. Most
recently, he co-edited a volume on contemporary British literature (Cool
Britannia, 2006) and was the focus editor of the issue “Transmedial and
Transgeneric Narration” for the journal Anglistik. International Journal of
English Studies (2007).

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