They coin the term ‘narrative prosthesis’ to underscore how disability serves as a crutch, a pervasive trope and device of characterization, for literary and other representations to develop ...

In the summer of 2007, I was freshly out of college and searching for jobs with increasing desperation. I had worked unpaid internships at a newspaper and a literary journal; I’d written music ...

Seventeen years later, my experience has been reduced into a tellable anecdote. Most of my memories have fallen away, but I remember that moment, feeling judged by her. From her privileged ...

As we (often unwittingly) draw from stories shared in the past to make sense of the present, it is worth thinking critically about which stories are the most tellable, and why we find them so ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." In the summer of 2007, I was freshly out of college and searching for jobs with increasing desperation.

Supported by the editors' popular podcast 'Narrative Now', this interdisciplinary volume explores the capacities and limitations of narrative research. It maps out new directions for the field while ...