The Ohio State University Colloquium on Transmedial/Interdisciplinary Narrative Theory

(Click here for abstracts of all the papers)


Part I: Wednesday, November 30, 6:00 – 9:00 (DE 447)

Panel 1: Visual Narrativities

Sharon Estes, “Narrative Time and Space in Literary Illustration”

Mark Buchsieb, “Frames of Understanding: Narrative Space and Gender Dynamics in Sally Potter’s Orlando”

Charles Conner, “Mind in the Gutter: The Space Between Comics and Narrative Theory”

Panel 2: Narrative and Identity

Margaret Kelliher, “The Internet Self: Positioning Theory and Weblogs”

Krista Paradiso, “Questioning the Self, Questioning Theories of the Self: Autobiography and the Construction of Subjectivity”

Kirsi Haenninen, “Self-Narration and the Narrative Construction of Emotions in Narratives about Supernatural Experiences”


Part II: Thursday, December 2, 11:30 – 1:18 (DE 265)

Panel 3: Rethinking the Forms and Functions of Narrative

Jill Smith, “Synthesizing Postmodern and Narratological Approaches to Young Adult Literature: Narrative ‘Literacy’ and the Case of What Happened to Lani Garver? by Carol Plum-Ucci”

Paul McCormick, “Marching Double-Time with Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier”

Aaron McKain, “The ‘Dean Scream’ Didn’t Happen: Narrative Theory and News Analysis”