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Scholar in ResidenceResearch and teaching interests
Narrative theory; electronic textuality
Education
Ph.D. (French), University of Utah, 1974
M.A. (Linguistics), University of Utah, 1976
M.A. (German), University of Utah, 1970
Faculté des lettres, Université de Genève, 1965-68
Publications
Books
Avatars of Story. Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2006
Co-ed. with David Herman and Manfred Jahn, Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Routledge, 2005; paperback edition, 2007
Ed., Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2004
Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2001
Ed., Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Indiana Univ. Press, 1999
Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory. Indiana Univ. Press, 1991
Rituel et Poésie. Une lecture de Saint-John Perse. Peter Lang Verlag, 1977
Journal issues edited
"From Possible Worlds to Virtual Reality: Approaches to Postmodernism." Special issue of Style, 29.2 (1995)
"Genre." Special issue of Poetics, 10.2-3 (1981)
Selected essays (since 1995)
“Mondes fictionnels à l’âge de l’Internet.” Les arts visuels, le web et la fiction. Ed. Bernard Guelton. Publications de la Sorbonne, forthcoming
"From Playfields to Fictional Worlds: A Second Life for Ariosto.” New Literary History, special issue on Play, forthcoming Summer 2009
"Fiction, Cognition, and Non-Verbal Media.” Proceedings of 2007 conference on fiction. Ed. Joergen Dines Johannsen. University of Southern Denmark Press, forthcoming
"Peeling the Interactive Onion: Levels of User Participation in the Narrative Text." New Narratives: Theory and Practice. Ed. Ruth Page and Bronwen Thomas. Univ. of Nebraska Press, forthcoming
"Cosmologie du récit: des mondes possibles aux univers parallèles." La théorie des mondes possible et l'analyse littéraire. Ed. Françoise Lavocat. Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, forthcoming
"Possible Worlds Semantics and Fiction." The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. Ed. Patrick Colm Hogan. Cambridge Univ. Press, forthcoming
"Space"; "Narrative in Other Media [than literature]." Handbook of Narratology. Ed. Peter Hühn. De Gruyter, forthcoming
“Temporal Paradoxes in Narrative. ” Style, forthcoming
“From Narrative Games to Playable Stories: Towards a Poetics of Interactive Narrative.” Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 1.1 (2009)
“Cheap Plot Tricks, Plot Holes, and Narrative Design.” Narrative 17.1 (2009): 56-75
“Interactive Narrative, Plot Types, and Interpersonal Relations. ” Interactive Storytelling: Proceedings of 1st ICIDS 2008. Eds. Nicolas Szilas and Ulrike Spierling. Springer Verlag, 2008, 6-13
"Fiction." The International Encyclopedia of Communications. Ed. Wolfgang Donsbach. Volume 4. Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, 1808-1812
“Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age.” A Companion to Digital Literary Studies. Ed. Susan Schreibman and Ray Siemens. Blackwell, 2008
“Transfictionality Across Media” and "Narrative in Virtual Worlds." In: Theorizing Narrativity. Eds. John Pier and José Angel García. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008, 385-417
"Transfictionnalité et médias." La Fiction: Suite et variations. Ed. Richard Saint-Gelais and René Audet. Editions Nota Bene/Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2007, 151-53
“Self-Reference in Web Art.” Self-Reference in the Media. Ed. Winfried Nöth and Nina Bishara. De Gruyter, 2007
“Jeux narratifs, fictions ludiques.” Intermédialités 9 (2007):15-34.
"Toward a Definition of Narrative." The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. Ed. David Herman. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2007, 22-35
"Diagramming Narrative." Semiotica 165 (2007): 1-4, 11-40
"On Juvenate." Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media. Ed. Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Pat Harrigan. MIT Press, 2007, 163-64
"From Parallel Universes to Possible Worlds : Ontological Pluralism in Physics, Narratology and Narrative." Poetics Today 24.7 (2006): 633-74
"Narratividad y videojugos." Spanish translation of presentation at Kosmopolis 2006, Barcelona
"Entre la culture de masse et la littérature expérimentale: sur l’avenir narratif des textes numériques." Créations de récits pour les fictions interactives. Ed. Nicolas Szilas and Jean-Hugues Réty. Editions Hermès/Lavoisier, 2006, 99-130
"Pragmatics, Semantics, and Narrativity: A Response to David Rudrum." Narrative 14.2 (2006): 188-96
"Narrative and the Split Condition of Digital Textuality." Dichtung Digital (2005). Rpt. in Writing, Reading, and Playing in Programmable Media. Ed. Peter Gendolla and Jörgen Schäfer. Transcript Publishers/Transaction Publishers, 2007, 257-80
"On the Theoretical Foundations of Transmedial Narratology.” Narrative Beyond Literary Criticism. Ed. Jan Christoph Meister with Tom Kindt, Wilhelm Schermus and Malte Stein. De Gruyter, 2005, 1-23
"Digital Narrative: Learning to Think with the Medium." Blackwell Companion to Narrative. Ed. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. Blackwell, 2005, 515-28
"Logique culturelle de la métalepse, ou: La métalepse dans tous ses états." Métalepses: entorse au pacte de la représentation. Ed. Jean-Marie Schaeffer and John Pier. Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2005, 201-24
"Catharsis"; "Dramatic Situations"; "Media and Narrative"; Mode"; "Narrative"; "Narrative, Games, and Play"; "Panfictionality"; "Possible-worlds Theory"; "Story Grammars"; "Tellability"; "Virtuality." Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. Ed. David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan. Routledge, 2005
"Metaleptic Machines." Semiotica 150-1/4 (2005): 439-69
"Will New Media Produce New Narratives ?" Narrative Across Media. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2004
"Multivariant Narrative." Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities. Ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens and John Unsworth. Blackwell, 2004, 415-30
"Narrative Cartography: Toward a Visual Narratology." What is Narratology? Ed. Tom Kindt. De Gruyter, 2003, 333-64
"Cognitive Maps and the Construction of Narrative Space." Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences. Ed. David Herman. Publications of the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, 2003, 214-42
"Cyberspace, Cybertexts, Cybermaps." Dichtung Digital (2003)
“On Defining Narrative Media.” Image and Narrative 6 (2003)
"Searching for a Story." Frame: tijdschrift voor literatuurwetenschap16/1 (2002): 19-35
"Fiction and its Other: How Trespassers Help Defend the Border." Semiotica 138-1/4 (2002): 351-69
"From The Truman Show to Survivor: Narrative versus Reality in Fake and Real Reality TV." Intensities: The Journal of Cult Media (2001)
"Beyond Myth and Metaphor: Narrativity in Digital Media." Gamestudies 1 (2001). Longer version in Poetics Today 23.4 (2002): 581-610
"The Narratorial Functions: Breaking Down a Theoretical Primitive." Narrative 9.2 (2001):146-52
Frontière de la fiction: analogique ou digitale? Frontières de la fiction. Ed. Alexandre Geffen and René Audet. Editions Nota Bene/Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux, 2001
"Cyberage Narratology: Computers, Metaphor and Narrative." Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis. Ed. David Herman. Ohio State Univ. Press, 1999, 113-41
"Introduction" and "Cyberspace, Virtuality and the Text." Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory. Ed. Marie-Laure Ryan. Indiana Univ. Press, 1999, 1-29 and 78-107
"The Text as World Versus the Text as Game: Possible Worlds Semantics and Narrative Theory." Journal of Literary Semantics 27.3 (1998): 137-63
"Taking Risks With the Truth: The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Human Reality." Narrative Inquiry 8.2 (1998): 419-27
"What is the Point of Compulit ?" Semiotica 118-1/2 (1998): 147-63
" Truth Without Scare Quotes. Post-Sokalian Genre Theory." New Literary History 29 (1998): 811-30
"Postmodernism and the Doctrine of Panfictionality." Narrative 5.2 (1997):165-87
"Virtuality and Textuality: Reading in the Electronic Age." The Systemic and Empirical Approach to Literature and Culture as Theory and Application. Ed Steven Tötösy de Zepenek and Irene Sywenky. Univ. of Alberta Research Institute for Comparative Literature/Seigen Univ. Institute for Empirical Literature and Media Research, 1997
"Introduction: From Possible Worlds to Virtual Reality." Style 29.2 (1995): 173-83
"Allegories of Immersion: Virtual Narration in Postmodern Fiction." Style 29.2 (1995): 262-86
"Virtual Reality and Art Appreciation." Semiotica 103-3/4 (1995): 349-67
Selected honors and awards
Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies from the Modern Language Association for Narrative as Virtual Reality, 2002
Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2001-2002
Fellow, Cornell Society for the Humanities, 1999
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1998-1999
Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars for Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence, and Narrative Theory, 1991
Current projects
A long-term research project on maps, space and narrative, covering both print and digital texts
A critical examination of what the computer has done for the word from a literary point of view, as opposed to what it has done for the image