JNT: Journal of Narrative Theory

As the Dialogue approaches, I invite you to visit our website to learn more about our upcoming Dialogue on Thursday, March 19 at 6:30!

Dialogue JNT Dialogue: Speaker Series The JNT Dialogue is JNT's annual speaker series. Each year, the JNT Dialogue invites keynote speakers to present on topics at the forefront of discourse about narrative theory. Previous Dialogue topics include "Detroit as a Narrative Space," "Environmental Futures," and....

Hello Again! I hope everyone is enjoying the break if they have one! I would like to highlight our second JNT Dialogue speaker, Stephen Best! Here's a little bit about him:
Stephen Best is Rachael Anderson Stageberg Professor of English and director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. His publications include The Fugitive's Properties: Law and the Poetics of Possession (Chicago, 2004), and None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke, 2018). Of late, he has been thinking about the phatic and the apophatic in black life, or the way the connectedness we call blackness often sticks to expressions of the cannot-be-said -- as often in memes as in the writings of James Baldwin.

Hello! In light of our Dialogue event coming up, I would like to introduce you all to our speaker, Julie Beth Napolin! Here's a little bit about her for you all to know:
Julie Beth Napolin is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities at The New School and author of The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative Form (Fordham UP, 2020). The book returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form.

This year's JNT Dialogue will explore the impact of Sound Studies on narrative theory. For those interested in learning more about what Sound Studies is, we recommend checking out the blog Sounding Out!

Sounding Out! pushing sound studies into the red since 2009

Hello! I would like to present our authors for this year's dialogue! Dr. Julie Beth Napolin and Dr. Stephen M. Best will be presenting this year's dialogue: Hearing Voices: Reading, Race, and the Acoustic Imagination on March 19th at 6:30 in the Student Center Rm 300. I hope to see all of you there!

Hello! If you have time, please head to our website where we have some new blog posts from some of our featured authors for our newest special issue, 55.3!

Blog Featured JNT Authors "Having a crisis of faith is essentially the new normal in the humanities, but refracted through the world's new abnormal, it became something else entirely, especially when teaching a student population disproportionately hit by the virus, as I do." - JNT 51.1 Featured Author:....

Hello everyone and Happy New Year! I would like to announce that our issue 55.3 is live on internet databases! Please go check it out wherever you get your journal access from!

Hello Friends!
I wanted to make an announcement that Dr. Jennifer Rickel has just released her new book, The Rights in War and Literature and Culture: From Literary Humanitarianism to Savior Victimism. If you would like to check it out, I have linked some resources below:

Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-rights-war-in-literature-and-culture-jennifer-rickel/1146647731?ean=9781032908816

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Rights-War-Literature-Culture-Humanitarianism/dp/1032908815/ref=sr_1_1?crid=39URLA12GSJIK&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.0yfHLdT5nH1M9E8wLaK3tQ.InL_hGX5e1AL-IZEv-JtUI1MJOAmsykH1G1BTW0IEaY&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Rights+in+War+and+Literature+and+Culture%3A+From+Literary+Humanitarianism+to+Savior+Victimism&qid=1758055753&sprefix=the+rights+in+war+and+literature+and+culture+from+literary+humanitarianism+to+savior+victimism%2Caps%2C101&sr=8-1

Routledge: https://www.routledge.com/The-Rights-War-in-Literature-and-Culture-From-Literary-Humanitarianism--to-Savior-Victimism/Rickel/p/book/9781032908816?utm_medium=email&utm_source=EmailStudio&utm_campaign=U7597454184_Books+Author+Post-Publication+Support_5189361&utm_id=

The Rights War in Literature and Culture: From Literary Humanitarianism to Savior Victimism Rights War tracks how the human rights framework is weaponized against the oppressed, and it makes the case for the central place of literature in understanding this seizure of narrative control. While literary humanitarianism depoliticizes suffering and positions the reader as a savior to traumatiz...

We are excited to announce the publication of Nonaligned Imagination, an groundbreaking study in literary solidarities beyond the Cold War blocs, by former JNT editor, Natasa Kovacevic.

Nonaligned Imagination - Northwestern University Press Recovering the literary and intellectual history of anticolonial collaborations Preoccupied with developing a multiethnic, postcolonial culture and seekin...

Hello!
Our blogposts for our newest volume 55.2 are out on our website! Please click the link below to check them out!

Blog Featured JNT Authors "Having a crisis of faith is essentially the new normal in the humanities, but refracted through the world's new abnormal, it became something else entirely, especially when teaching a student population disproportionately hit by the virus, as I do." - JNT 51.1 Featured Author:....

Hello Friends!
I am happy to announce our newest Special Issue, 55.1 “New Narrative Literacies,” edited by Jan Alber, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar and Cecilia Thirlway!
Here is a link if any of you are interested:
Https://muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.emich.edu/issue/54928

muse-jhu-edu.ezproxy.emich.edu

Hello! Since the JNT Dialogue is tomorrow at 6:30pm, I wanted to showcase our authors:
Tia-Simone Gardner is an artist, educator, and Black feminist learner. Her hybrid practice enacts the Black geographic, long histories - some documented, some not -between black folks and the fabricated environment. Gardner grew up in Fairfield, Alabama and received her BA in Art and Art History from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. In 2009 she received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Practices and Time-Based Media from the University of Pennsylvania. She participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program as a Studio Fellow and has been an invited artist at a number of national and international artist residencies including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, A Studio in the Woods, and IASPIS Sweden. She was awarded a number of fellowships including a recent Smithsonian Artist Fellowship in 2020. In 2018, Gardner received a Phd in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota where she completed a practice-based dissertation on Black folks, mobility and the history of small (now tiny) house practices, titled: 'Sensing Place: HouseScale, Black Geographies, and a Humanly Workable City.' She's currently working on a project about Fairfield, her elders, and the geologic time that made her home(town) a profitable racial landscape for the US Steel. Alongside this work, she continues to teach and develop projects related to rivers, particularly, the Mississippi River, and maritime history through her work on a series of floating camera obscuras, developing a practice of social photography.