Events
Streaming Audio
Dialogue on Modernist Narrative
Streaming audio from the October 14 Dialogue on Modernist Narrative with Stephen Kern (OSU Department of History) and Sarah Copland (Project Narrative Visiting Scholar).
The Job Market and Your Dissertation
Streaming audio from a May 29 roundtable discussion on how to conceptualize a dissertation topic, focus
research, and write a dissertation with an eye to succeeding on the
academic job market. Participants were English Department professors Jared Gardner,
Lisa Kiser, Jim Phelan, and Cindy Selfe.
Issues in the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative
Streaming audio from the May 19, 2009 installment of "Prophets in Their Own Country," featuring Anne Langendorfer, "The Narratee in
Life in the Iron Mills" and James Phelan, "Progression, Speed, and Judgment in Kafka's 'Das Urteil.'"
Cognition and Emotion
Streaming audio from the April 15, 2009 installment of "Prophets in Their Own Country," featuring Elizabeth Nixon, "'No Shark Supervised the Tragedy': Humor and the Horrific in
The God of Small Things" and Frederick Aldama, "A Multilevel Approach to Narrative and Emotions across Media."
Prophets in Their Own Country: Writing the Self, Writing the Other: Author and Audience in Popular Disability Narrative
Streaming audio from the April 22, 2009 installment of "Prophets in Their Own Country," featuring Nicholas Hetrick, "Mind Reading, Disability, and the Work of Narrative Theory," Melanie Yergeau, "Empathy, Rhetoric, and Bodily Displacement in Parent Narratives of Autism," and Krista Paradiso, "Gender, Authority, and Audience in Bipolar Life Writing."
TheoRhetoric as Narrative: Political Theology, St. Paul, and the Chinese Exclusion Act
Streaming audio of Steven Mailloux (University of California-Irvine) "TheoRhetoric as Narrative: Political Theology, St. Paul, and the Chinese Exclusion Act" on April 6, 2009.
Digital Storytelling - Giving Purpose to Pixels
Streaming audio from an event with Joe Lambert discussing his work as founder and executive director of the Center for Digital Storytelling, and the necessity for a revolution in our thinking about emotional courage, reflective practice and learning through the use of personal stories as part of a transformative process in constructing identity and representing the experience of loss and trauma.
The Beginning and End of Postmodernism
Streaming audio from "The Beginning and End of Postmodernism," a February 2, 2009 event and the first in a series of events called "Prophets in Their Own Country," in which Project Narrative affiliates present at OSU papers that they have delivered or will soon deliver in venues around the country and around the world. This event featured Brian McHale, "1966 Nervous Breakdown, or, When did Postmodernism Begin?" and Aaron McKain, "2008: The Year We Re-Made Contact (or, Why Did Postmodernism End)."
Roundtable on the Fiction/Nonfiction Distinction
Streaming audio from a January 9, 2009 roundtable featuring two creative writers, a rhetorical theorist, and a scholar of autobiography to compare and contrast their perspectives on the advantages of retaining or dismantling the distinction between fiction and non-fiction.
Nicholas Dames Podcast
Nicholas Dames on "The Chapter: or a History of Segmented Life." Part of the 18th-19th Century Graduate Workshop: November 13, 2008. MP3 format.
The Sopranos vs. Lost: Debating the "Highs" and "Lows" of the Serial Narrative Arts
The following will take you to streaming audio of the May 14, 2008, debate between Professors Sean O'Sullivan and Jared Gardner concerning the two television series and what they suggest about the nature and possibilities of serial narrative in today's media ecology.
Panel Discussion on Experimental Writing
Streaming audio of a panel discussion of the fiction of Brian Evenson vis-a-vis theories of contemporary experimental writing. The discussion took place on April 9, 2008, and featured Jan Alber, Chris Higgs, Paul McCormick, and Caitlin Newcomer.
Colloquium on the Research of Jan Alber and Marina Grishakova
Streaming audio of a colloquium featuring the research of Marina Grishakova and Jan Alber, international visiting scholars working under the auspices of Project Narrative. The colloquium took place on April 3, 2008.
What's at Stake: Rhetorical vs. Historical Approaches to Studying Narrative
The following will take you to streaming audio of the February 14, 2008, debate between Professors Aman Garcha and James Phelan concerning historicist versus rhetorical approaches to narrative study.
