Jrnl: STORYWORLDS: A JOURNAL OF NARRATIVE STUDIES 1.1 (forthcoming 2009).

Editor: David Herman, Ohio State University Editorial Board: H. Porter Abbott, University of California, Santa Barbara Jens Brockmeier, Free University of Berlin and the University of Manitoba Jonathan Culler, Cornell University Gregory Currie, University of Nottingham Catherine Emmott, University of Glasgow Peter Galison, Harvard University Richard J. Gerrig, Stony Brook University Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Carnegie Mellon University Marie-Laure Ryan, University of Colorado, Boulder Deborah Schiffrin, Georgetown University Roy Sommer, University of Wuppertal Wendy Steiner, University of Pennsylvania Storyworlds: a Journal of Narrative Studies publishes state-of-the-art research in the field of interdisciplinary narrative theory. Unlike existing journals that target particular disciplines in which only certain kinds of narratives are the primary object of study, Storyworlds features research on storytelling practices across a variety of media; it also showcases cutting-edge methods of analysis and interpretation brought to bear on narratives of all sorts. Relevant storytelling scenarios include face-to-face interaction, literary writing, film and television, virtual environments, historiography, opera, journalism, graphic novels, plays, and photography. At the same time, contributors to the journal can approach narrative from perspectives developed in multiple fields of inquiry, ranging from discourse analysis, literary theory, jurisprudence, and philosophy, to cognitive and social psychology, artificial intelligence, medicine, and the study of organizations. In short, Storyworlds aspires to be the place for publishing interdisciplinary research on narrative across media. Because Storyworlds is designed to be of interest to readers in many fields, essays should be as accessibly written as possible--even as contributors are encouraged to engage in the best practices of narrative research in their areas of specialization, and to present cutting-edge scholarship on a given aspect of stories or storytelling. To this end, all technical terms should be carefully defined and discipline-specific assumptions, concepts, and methods should be thoroughly explained. Pertinent questions include (but are not limited to) the following: How do modes of storytelling--narrative ways of worldmaking--differ from other representational practices used to construct or reconstruct worlds, in a broad sense? Put differently, what distinguishes narrative from other methods for using symbol systems to structure, comprehend, and communicate aspects of experience? What constraints and affordances do particular storytelling media bring to the process of building narrative worlds? What tools are needed to characterize, in all its richness and complexity, the experience of inhabiting a narrative world in a given medium or across different media? What are the conditions for and consequences of engaging with such worlds, and how does this engagement vary across different narrative practices, cultural settings, and interpretive communities? The purpose of *Storyworlds* is to provide a forum for sustained scholarly inquiry into these and related issues, whose investigation will require collaborative, interdisciplinary work by researchers from across the arts and sciences. Electronic submissions (saved as RTF files) are encouraged, but hard copies will be accepted. Please send your submissions to the editor at the following address: David Herman Department of English Ohio State University 164 W. 17th Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1370 USA herman.145@osu.edu All inquiries concerning subscription, change of address, advertising, and other business communications should be sent to the University of Nebraska Press at 1111 Lincoln Mall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0630.