Why do we not see these linking forms all around us?

Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species

I’m interested in the forms of narrative that climate science has generated. It’s an epic story, of course, with a million authors.

Ian McEwan, Solar

"Literature, Science, and Other Accidentals: A Conversation with Shannon Lambert"
June 23, 2022
15:00-16:30, Vergaderzaal 3.1 Camelot
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"Inscriptive Technologies in Speculative Fiction"
June 16, 2022
16:00-17:30, Vergaderzaal 3.1 Camelot and via Zoom

Caracciolo, Marco. Contemporary Fiction and Climate Uncertainty: Narrating Unstable Futures. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. Available in Open Access here.

Caracciolo, Marco. Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. More info here.

"Narrative Difference, Embodied Experience, and Posthuman Futures in Video Games"
May 17, 2022
15:00, via Zoom

"Enacting Post-apocalyptic Worlds in José Saramago’s Blindness"
March 8, 2022
17:00, via Zoom

Caracciolo, Marco, and Gry Ulstein. 2022. “The Weird and the Meta in Jeff VanderMeer’s Dead Astronauts.” Configurations 30 (1): 1–23.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

Read the print version on Project MUSE (requires a subscription) here

Ameel, Lieven, and Marco Caracciolo. “Uncertain Ontologies in Twenty-First-Century Storyworlds (Special Issue).” Style 55, no. 3 (2021). With articles by Lieven Ameel, Alice Bell, Marco Caracciolo, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, Merja Polvinen, and Pieter Vermeulen. Read on Jstor (requires a subscription) here.

Caracciolo, Marco, Marlene Marcussen, and David Rodriguez, eds. Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism. New York: Routledge, 2022. Read in Open Access here.

"Who Is at the Center? Gikuyu Ogre Narratives and Posthuman Thinking"
May 5, 2021
15:00-16:00, via Zoom

Marco Caracciolo, Jon Hegglund, Kaisa Kortekallio, Erin James, and Eric Morel talk about the present and future of econarratology. Kristin Ferebee moderates this discussion of how narrative (theory) can contribute to contemporary debates on the climate crisis.
May 3, 2021
19:00-20:30, via Zoom (https://bit.ly/3uJksrD)

Thalia Field (author of Bird Lovers, Backyard, Experimental Animals, and most recently Personhood ) in conversation with Shannon Lambert and the NARMESH project
April 27, 2021
16:00-17:30, via Zoom (https://bit.ly/3wA12Hz)

Caracciolo, Marco. Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene. University of Virginia Press, "Under the Sign of Nature" series, 2021. More info here.

Caracciolo, Marco. “Negotiating Stories in the Anthropocene: The Case of Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth.” DIEGESIS 9, no. 2 (2020). https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/394/596.

Read Erin James's response here

"Entering Stories"
December 8, 2020
15:00-16:30, via Zoom

"Genre and the Realist Novel in the Anthropocene"
October 29, 2020
15:00-16:00, via Zoom

Caracciolo, Marco. “We-Narrative and the Challenges of Nonhuman Collectives.” Style 54, no. 1 (2020): 86–97.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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Caracciolo, Marco. “Flocking Together: Collective Animal Minds in Contemporary Fiction.” PMLA 135, no. 2 (2020): 239–53.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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Caracciolo, Marco. “Deus Ex Algorithmo: Narrative Form, Computation, and the Fate of the World in David Mitchell’s Ghostwritten and Richard Powers’s The Overstory.” Contemporary Literature 60, no. 1 (2019): 47–71.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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"Animism Redux: Stepping Back into a World without God"
February 20, 2020
14:30-16:00, Blandijn, third floor, meeting room Camelot

Caracciolo, Marco, and Shannon Lambert. “Narrative Bodies and Nonhuman Transformations.” SubStance 48, no. 3 (2019): 45–63.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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"Planetary Footprints and Intimate Epics: Multiscalar Poetics in Environmental Narratives"
December 3, 2019
15:00-16:30, Blandijn, third floor, meeting room Camelot

Caracciolo, Marco. “Form, Science, and Narrative in the Anthropocene.” Narrative 27, no. 3 (2019): 270–89.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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"What Was Personhood?"
October 23, 2019
17:00-18:30, Blandijn, second floor, room 120.083

"Peopling the Future City: Embedded and Embodied Futures in Planning, Policy, and Fiction"
April 25, 2019
16:00-17:30, Blandijn, second floor, room 120.025

"Inhabiting Fantasy Worlds: Toward a Non-Productive/Ecological Aesthetics"
March 25, 2019
15:00-16:30, Blandijn, first floor, Faculty room

"Science to Fiction – Fiction to Science: Literature, Poetry, and Knowledge of Nature"
February 21, 2019
17:00-18:30, Blandijn, Faculty room

Caracciolo, Marco. “Notes for an Econarratological Theory of Character.” Frontiers of Narrative Studies 4, no. 1 (2018): 172–89.

Read on the journal website here

"What Is a Zoopoetic Reading? The Panther, the Axolotl, and the End of the World"
November 29, 2018
15:00-16:30, Blandijn, Faculty room

"Spaces of Indeterminacy: Literary Description and the Form of the Environment"
November 8, 2018
14:30-16:00, Blandijn, room 090.038

"Narrative and Ideology"
October 18, 2018
16:00-18:00, Rozier, LibraryLab Magnel

Caracciolo, Marco. “Negative Strategies and World Disruption in Postapocalyptic Fiction.” Style 52, no. 3 (2018): 222–41.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

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"From Eco-Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative"
June 21, 2018
15:00-16:30, Blandijn, room 120.012 (second floor)

"Using Buddhism as a Resource for Ecological Thinking: Opportunities and Challenges"
May 14, 2018
11:15-12:45, Blandijn, Large meeting room (third floor)

Caracciolo, Marco. “A Walk Through Deep History: Narrative, Embodied Strategies, and Human Evolution.” Costellazioni 5 (2018): 123–46.

Special issue on "Narrative and the Biocultural Turn" edited by Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski and Vittorio Gallese.

Read a pre-print version of the article here (UGent Biblio)

"Narrative in the Anthropocene."
March 27, 2018
14:00-15:30, Blandijn, Large meeting room (third floor)

"'The problem with people who aren’t human': Anthropomorphism, Posthumanism, and Fictional Character."
December 4, 2017
17:00-18:30, Blandijn, Faculty Room (first floor)

"Ecowar Fiction and Submarine Aesthetics"
November 9, 2017
11:00-12:30, Blandijn, Faculty Room (first floor)

Caracciolo, Marco. “Murky Mercy: Michel Faber’s Under the Skin and the Difficulty of Reality.” College Literature 44, no. 4 (2017): 589–612.

Read the article here (Project MUSE; requires a subscription)