ENN Newsletter Issue XIV May 2016

Index:

I: Editorial

II: Co-optations Steering Committee

III: Conference-related Matters

III.1: ENN 3 Conference Proceedings
III.2: ENN 4 Conference proceedings
III.3. ENN 5: Dates

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IV: Mailing list

V: Upcoming Events, CfPs and Jobs

VI: New Publications

VII: Links

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I: Editorial
ENN May, 2016

Dear Fellow Narratologists,

This is the 14th installment of the ENN Newsletter. We are currently spring cleaning
the members database and the networks website at the ENNs current office at
Ghent University. In the near future, we hope to make the website interactive again.
Please note that announcements to be included in the News section of the
homepage and any information to be published in the ENN Newsletters can be sent
to the ENN Ghent office via enn4@ugent.be with a copy to Tobias Hermans (FWO
Research Fellow, Ghent University), who acts as ENN Secretary, at tobias.hermans@ugent.be

In accordance with the constitution, the members of the Steering Committee have
decided on the third coopted member: Welcome aboard, Nora Berning!
We hope to see you all at the 5th ENN Conference in Prague, which will take place on
the following dates: September 15-17, 2017.

The ENN Steering Committee

Gunther Martens, Karin Kukkonen, Ondej Sldek

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II: Steering Committee: Coopted members

In the previous newsletter, the elected members of the steering committee expressed
their wish to coopt a third member via an open call for applications with a deadline in
January 2016. Following this procedure, the elected members of the Steering
Committee now wish to announce Nora Berning (Giessen University) has been
selected as third and final co-opted member of the Steering Committee. Welcome
aboard!

The Steering Committee looks as follows:

Elected:
Gunther Martens: Gunther Martens is Professor of German Literature at Ghent
University (Belgium). He specializes in modernist literature, rhetorical narratology,
and the cultural history of the encyclopaedia. He is co-director of the Ghent Centre
for Digital Humanities. He acted as main convenor of the fourth ENN conference and
is the current chair of ENNs steering committee. Among his current research
interests are: modernist literature and sound; documentary literature, polemics.
Karin Kukkonen: Karin Kukkonen is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
and Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oslo.
Her current project "How the Novel Found its Feet" investigates the
emergence of embodied, extended and enactive modes of writing in the
eighteenth century and connects the narrative of the rise of the novel to these
changes in embodied style. As Balzan Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the
Unviersity of Oxford (2010-2013), Kukkonen worked on cognitive implications
of neoclassical poetics, in particular on how the so-called "rules" of poetic
justice, the unities and decorum match and exploit cognitive principles. She
has published a monograph on comics and cognitive narrative studies
(Contemporary Comics Storytelling, 2013), as well as articles on topics such
as Bayesian Narrative, embodiment in comics and deals with the devil, and
edited special issues on "Cognitive Literary Study: Second Generation
Approaches" (Style 2014 with Marco Caracciolo) and "Reading Cognitively"

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(Paragraph 2014 with Terence Cave and Olivia Smith). With collaborative
projects in eye-tracking (Eye Movements in Literary Reading at Oxford) and
reading processes (IGEL North), Kukkonen is also involved in empirical
studies of literature.
Ondrej Sladek: Ondej Sldek is the head of the Department of Theory, Institute of
Czech Literature AS CR and also lectures at the Masaryk University in Brno.
He researches mainly in literary theory, narratology, semiotics, literary
structuralism, and hermeneutics; he has published extensively in these fields.
He is the chief editor of the series Theoretica & historica, the editor of esk
strukturalismus po poststrukturalismu (2006), Performance/performativita
(2010), and the co-editor of O psan djin (with K. Blhov; 2007), Vyprvn v
kontextu (with A. Jedlikov; 2008) and stav pro eskou literaturu, v.v.i. (with
K. Blhov; 2010).

Selected:
Hilary Dannenberg (University of Trier): Hilary Dannenberg is a Professor of English
Studies and Anglophone Literatures at the University of Trier. She previously
held positions at the universities of Bayreuth, Leipzig, Freiburg, Cologne,
Mainz and Wrzburg. She studied English, German and Law at Cardiff
University, where she also received a PhD in German Literature; she did her
post-doctoral thesis (Habilitation) in English Literature at the University of
Freiburg. She has published on American and British film and television,
narrative theory, postcolonial anglophone literatures, and British fiction; her
current projects focus on British cultural identities in media and fiction, and on
invasion and war narratives in American and British cultures.
Stefan Iversen (Aarhus University): Stefan Iversen is Associate Professor in the
Department for Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University in
Denmark. He has co-edited the anthologies Why Study Literature? (Aarhus
University Press, 2011) and Strange Voices in Narrative Fiction (De Gruyter,
2011) and is the author and co-author of articles and books on subjects such
as unnatural narratives, early modernism, narrative rhetoric, and the literature
of testimony. With Henrik Skov Nielsen he edits the series Modern Literary

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Theory, and he also hosts and leads the Ph.D. summer school course in
Narrative Studies (www.sins.au.dk) held annually in Denmark. His current
research project focuses on interacting narratives and on fictionality in public
rhetoric.
Nora Berning (Giessen University): Dr. Nora Berning is a postdoctoral researcher and
member of the management team of the International Graduate Centre for the
Study of Culture (GCSC) at Gieen University. Previously, she was a
researcher at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada. She
specializes in the field of media cultures, with a special emphasis on narrativity
in journalism.

ENN Secretary (Ghent office):

Tobias Hermans is Research Fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation FWO. His
research concerns the stylistic aspects of the music criticism of Robert
Schumann

and

Richard Wagner.

Further

research

interests

include

intermedial relations between literature and music in (post-)romanticism, the

development of the Lied in the nineteenth century, and identity construction in
letters and other ego-documents

III: Conference-related Material

III. 1 ENN3 Conference Publication Narrative Across Borders

The long-awaited first installment of the ENN3 proceedings is now online: "Narratological Concepts across Languages and Cultures". Edited by John Pier. In: AIEJCN:
Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology (nr. 7-8 autumn
2012-autumn 2014)
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/issue/7/index.html

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III. 2 ENN4 Conference Publication

Information has been sent out under separate cover to all conference participants
that are also members of ENN. In case you presented a paper but did not receive the
Call for Contributions, please check your membership status via enn4@ugent.be.

III. 3 ENN 5 Conference 2017

Please Save the Date!
13 to 15 September 2017
doctoral school course: 11-12 September 2017.
The conference will take place at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague,
organized by Ondrej Sladek.

IV. Mailing list

We are currently spring-cleaning the ENN mailing list. New members of ENN are
automatically added to the ENN mailing list. As of late, however, we get a lot of
bounced messages. This means that the email address with which you registered
may no longer be valid. As we have no means to check this validity ourselves, we
would kindly like to ask you to check your settings. This will only take one minute.

Here is how you do it:

1) Head

for

the

website:

https://mailman.rrz.uni-

hamburg.de/mailman/listinfo/narrlist

2) Enter your email address in the field: "Unsubcribe or edit options". This will
bring you to a new window containing "membership options" In order to
change your current email address, you must first log in by giving your
membership password in the section below. If you don't remember your
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membership password, you can have it emailed to you by clicking on the

button at the bottom of the page. Thank you for your time!

V: Upcoming Events and CfPs

CFP s
Greta Olson, former coopted member of the ENN (2011-2013) has kindly brought to
our attention that EJES (European Journal of English Studies) is accepting proposals
for thematic issues based on conferences. The selection of three special issues
occurs in November of each year. Europe-based narrative scholars are in an ideal
place to provide work related to the study of English in Europe;

The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) will host an
international Summer School on the topic of New Horizons in the Trans/National
Studies of Literature and Culture from 5-9 September 2016 in Giessen. Applications
should reach summerschool@gcsc.uni-giessen.de no later than 30 May 2016.
Call for contributions: FROM NARRATIVE TO NARRATIVITY. Half a Century of
Narratology. Filled-in application forms with abstracts in electronic form should be
sent in by the end of May 2016 at the latest. The email address is:
zbornik.naratologija@filfak.ni.ac.rs. Papers (containing no more than 30.000
characters) should be sent in electronic form by November 1st 2016 at the latest. The
email

address

is:

zbornik.naratologija@filfak.ni.ac.rs.

Further

information

http://www.filfak.ni.ac.rs/preuzimanje/category/196-pola-veka-naratologije

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VI: New Publications

ENN members are asked to send in announcements of recently or soon-to-bepublished monographs and anthologies together with the standard bibliographical
information (NB: intended for this heading are books, not articles). This information,
which will be included in each upcoming Newsletter, should be sent to the Chairman
of the ENN Steering Committee, Gunther Martens, at enn4@ugent.be with a copy to
Tobias Hermans at tobias.hermans@ugent.be

Alber, Jan: Unnatural Narrative: Impossible Worlds in Fiction and Drama. U of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Bareis, J. Alexander, and Lene Nordrum (eds.): How to Make Believe, The Fictional
Truths of the Representational Arts. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/460633.
Benz, Maximilian, and Katrin Dennerlein (eds.): Literarische Rume der Herkunft,
Fallstudien zu einer historischen Narratologie. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter,
2016. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/460683.
Ciccoricco, David: Refiguring Minds in Narrative Media. U of Nebraska Press, 2015.
https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Refiguring-Minds-in-NarrativeMedia,676387.aspx
Hescher, Achim: Reading Graphic Novels, Genre and Narration. Berlin, Boston: De
Gruyter, 2016. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/462566.
Hhn, Peter: Facing Loss and Death, Narrative and Eventfulness in Lyric Poetry.
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/473871.
Igl, Natalia, and Sonja Zeman. 2016. Perspectives on Narrativity and Narrative Perspectivization. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Lagoni, Frederike: Fiktionales versus faktuales Erzhlen fremden Bewusstseins. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/472439.
Lavocat, Franoise: Fait et fiction. Pour une frontire. Paris: Seuil, 2016. Collection,
Potique

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Mildorf, Jarmila, and Till Kinzel (eds.): Audionarratology, Interfaces of Sound and
Narrative. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/468357.
Parker, Joshua: Tales of Berlin in American Literature (= Spatial Practices; 22). (BrillRodopi) 2016.
Patron, Sylvie. 2016. La Mort Du Narrateur et Autres Essais. Accessed March 29.
http://www.amazon.fr/La-mort-narrateur-autres-essais/dp/2359351346.
Pier, John (ed.): Narratological Concepts across Languages and Cultures. (=
AIEJCN: Amsterdam International Electronic Journal for Cultural Narratology
nr. 7-8 autumn 2012-autumn 2014)
http://cf.hum.uva.nl/narratology/issue/7/index.html
Pettersson, Bo (eds.): How Literary Worlds Are Shaped, A Comparative Poetics of
Literary Imagination. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2016.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/474118.
Shastri, Suda (eds.): Disnarration: The Unsaid Matters. Hyderabad: Orient
BlackSwan publishers, 2016
Thon, Jan-Nol (ed.): Transmedial narratology and contemporary media culture: on
transmedial strategies of narrative representation in contemporary films, comics, and video games, U of Nebraska Press 2016.
Utell, Janine. 2015. Engagements with Narrative. Routledge.
Weixler, Antonius, and Lukas Werner (eds.): Zeiten erzhlen, Anstze Aspekte
Analysen. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2015.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/457303.

VII: Links
Contact
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