Research Area 2: Cultural Narratologies
Cultural Narratologies is concerned with how narratives, whether fictional or factual, are employed in constructing versions of the world and their ideological implications. This focus has become especially relevant since the "narrative turn" in the humanities, which extended the concept's use, objectives, and meaning across many disciplines. These endeavours are guided by key questions: What is a narrative? How do narratives function? What are the different affordances of fictional and factual narratives? And how can the study of narrative help us understand and conceptualize the world?
Research Area 2 studies the processes that shape and produce narratives, highlighting their role as tools for cultural analysis. It explores key cultural, social, medial, and historical contexts through several current debates, including applied narratology, transmedial narratology, political narratives, cognitive narratology, AI and narrative, econarratology, and computational narrative analysis.
Contact
If you are interested in joining us, please get in touch with our speakers and sign up for our newsletter and reminder e-mails:
Caesy Stuck – caesy.stuck@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Yauheniya Lekarevich – yauheniya.Lekarevich@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Upcoming Events (Details to Follow)
- Guest Lecture by Simona Bartolotta (Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, JLU-Giessen), Winter semester 2025/26
- Complementary Workshop to GCSC Keynote Lecture “Outrage, Victimization, and Dystopian Futures: Social Media Rhetoric during Trump 2.0 and the Perceived Polycrisis” by Prof. Greta Olsen (JLU-Giessen & Center for Diversity, Media, and Law), Early 2026
- Guest Lecture by Prof. Daniel Newman (University of Toronto) on “Theorizing Statistical Pseudo-Narrativity,” Spring 2026
- Workshop “Collaborative Academic Writing” by Prof. Daniel Newman (University of Toronto), Spring 2026
4-Day Workshop “Applied Ethical Narratology,” Summer 2026
Past Events
- GCSC Conference “Cognition, Culture, Narrative,” December 6–8, 2023
- Begleitveranstaltung GCSC Keynote Lecture Prof. Dr. Ulrich Bröckling: Textdiskussion „Untergang als Argument. Politiken der Apokalypse“, December 19, 2024
- Session on Queer Narrative Theory, led by research area member Hatunnur Ciftci, February 12, 2025
- Reading Group on Feminist Narratology, May 20, 2025