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James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor

Department of English: http://english.osu.edu/ .


James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor and Director of Project Narrative, works primarily in the rhetorical theory of narrative. He is the first person in the history of the English Department to be awarded both the Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award (2007) and the Distingushed Scholar Award (2004). He is the author of five books of narrative theory, the most recent of which are Living to Tell about It (2005) and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007). He edits Narrative, the journal of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature, and, with Peter J. Rabinowitz, co-edits the Ohio State University Press book series, The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative.