[Gandur] Fwd: Project Narrative Summer Institute with Amy Shuman, Ohio, June 2013

[Valdimar Tryggvi Hafstein]

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From: Noyes, Dorothy <noyes.10 at osu.edu>
Date: Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:41 AM
Subject: Project Narrative Summer Institute with Amy Shuman, Ohio, June 2013


The Project Narrative Summer Institute (PNSI) is a two-week workshop on the
Ohio State University campus that offers faculty and advanced graduates in
any discipline the opportunity for an intensive study of core concepts and
issues in narrative theory. The focus for summer 2013 will be Narrative
Theory for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Brian McHale and Amy Shuman
will direct the 2013 Institute, which will run from Monday, June 3rd to
Friday, June 14th.


This year?s Summer Institute will explore the fundamental elements of
narrative from literary and genre fiction to the folktale to everyday
narrative, with application to narratives from all disciplinary
perspectives across the humanities and social science. Our survey of the
?classical? narrative theories of Vladimir Propp, Gérard Genette, A.J.
Greimas, M.M. Bakhtin, William Labov and others will provide faculty and
advanced graduate students with fundamental tools useful for all aspects of
narrative research, in all disciplines. We will especially focus on
approaches from literature, linguistics, anthropology, and folklore. In
addition to in-depth discussion of seminal narrative theorists, students
will have the opportunity to do their own analyses of folk tales,
conversational narratives, a film, and short works of literature. Each
participant will bring to the Institute a project to develop over the
course of the two weeks, e.g., a lesson plan or course syllabus, the draft
of a research proposal or dissertation chapter, the outline of a journal
article or conference paper. The Institute will culminate with a workshop
discussion of each student?s research project.


The deadline for applications is Friday, March 29th, 2013.


For more information, consult the Project Narrative website (
http://projectnarrative.osu.edu/programs/summer-institute)