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Narrative Theory and Analysis

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Rachel Fraser
Phillips Exeter Academy
2
Eri Shigematsu
Tottori University
3
Sitong Wang
Columbia University
4
Regina E. Fabry
Macquarie University
5
LJ Evans
Unknown
6
Urania Milevski
University of Bremen
7
Devin Sanchez Curry
Clarkson University
8
Morgan Podraza
The Ohio State University
9
Reiko Ikeo
Tokyo Keizai University
10
Coltan Scrivner
University of Chicago

Rising Stars Papers

1
ReelFramer: Human-AI Co-Creation for News-to-Video Translation
Unknown Journal|2024
46 cit.
2
The Affective Scaffolding of Grief in the Digital Age: The Case of Deathbots
Topoi|2024
41 cit.
3
PodReels: Human-AI Co-Creation of Video Podcast Teasers
Designing Interactive Systems Conference|2024
29 cit.
4
Self-Narration in the Oppressive Niche
Topoi|2024
21 cit.
5
Aesthetic Injustice
Ethics|2024
13 cit.
6
Narrative gaslighting
Philosophical Psychology|2024
12 cit.
7
The disruption of grief in the technological niche: The case of deathbots
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences|2025
7 cit.
8
Bleeding-Heart Horror Fans
Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications|2024
5 cit.
9
Behavioral attraction predicts morbidly curious women's mating interest in men with dark personalities
Personality and Individual Differences|2024
4 cit.
10
Imaginaries of Loss: the Case of Grief Memoirs
Emotions History Culture Society|2024
3 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
James Du
Florida State University
2
Rory Kelly
University of California, Los Angeles
3
Sara Robertson
Canterbury Christ Church University
4
Tytti Rantanen
Tampere University
5
Marcus Morgan
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust
6
Dejin Xu
Sichuan University
7
Emily Spiers
Edinburgh Cancer Research
8
Leland G. Spencer
University of South Carolina
9
Kári Driscoll
Utrecht University
10
Lena Wetenkamp
Universität Trier

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Introduction: Relations between Literary Theory and Memory Studies
Journal of Literary Theory|2022
33 cit.
2
Estrangement, immersion, and the future: Designing the speculative environments of the virtual reality “Museum of the Future”
Futures|2022
21 cit.
3
Machine Learning in Sport Social Media Research: Practical Uses and Opportunities
International Journal of Sport Communication|2023
16 cit.
4
Rhetorics of Allonormativity: The Case of Asexual Latter-day Saints
Southern Communication Journal|2022
15 cit.
5
Hidden Transcripts of the Powerful: Researching the Arts of Domination
Sociology|2024
9 cit.
6
What communication brings to the study of gaslighting: metatheory toward interdisciplinarity
Review of Communication|2023
7 cit.
7
Against Knowing: The Rhetorical Structure of Epistemic Violence
Southern Communication Journal|2022
5 cit.
8
Injury Epistemology: <i>Notes on a Silencing</i> and Narrative Accompaniment
a/b Auto/Biography Studies|2024
3 cit.
9
Mediating Maggie: Margaret Thatcher, leadership, and gender in<i>The Iron Lady</i>and<i>The Crown</i>
Critical Studies in Media Communication|2023
2 cit.
10
The Try Guys Try Image Repair: Apologia in the Age of Influencers and Digital Media
Western Journal of Communication|2024
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Darko Suvin
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2
Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
3
Fredric Jameson
Duke University
4
Helena Bilandzić
University of Erfurt
5
Joe Nandhakumar
University of Warwick
6
Mieke Bal
Collège de France
7
Kenneth Reinecke Hansen
University College Copenhagen
8
Bart Vervaeck
KU Leuven
9
Brian Richardson
Cornell University
10
Maryanne Garry
University of Washington

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
The Bulletin of the Midwest Modern Language Association|1982
2.5k cit.
2
The Political Unconscious. Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act.
History and Theory|1982
2k cit.
3
Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics
Poetics Today|1984
1.6k cit.
4
Third-World Literature in the Era of Multinational Capitalism
Social Text|1986
1.6k cit.
5
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
SubStance|1983
1.2k cit.
6
Metamorphoses of Science Fiction. On the Poetics and History of a Literary Genre
MLN|1980
1.2k cit.
7
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
Sociological Analysis|1982
1.1k cit.
8
Measuring Narrative Engagement
Media Psychology|2009
1.1k cit.
9
The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act
MLN|1982
881 cit.
10
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism|1992
847 cit.

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