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    • February 1, 2017

    “Narrating the Mesh”

    NARMESH is a multidisciplinary research project interrogating contemporary narrative and its potential for staging, challenging, and expanding the human imagination of the nonhuman...

    • December 12, 2017

    “A Day at the Helsinki zoo”

    Blog post by Gry Ulstein and Shannon Lambert

Forms

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
Event

Guest lecture by Astrid Bracke (HAN University of Applied Sciences)

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

Publications

New article on we-narrative and nonhuman collectives

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)

Read the print version on Jstor (requires a subscription) here

Publications

New article on embodiment and animal collectives

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)

Read the print version here

Publications

New article on narrative endings and computation

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)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Carlos A. Segovia (Saint Louis University - Madrid)

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

Publications

New article on narrative, embodiment, and the nonhuman

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)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Liliane Campos (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)

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

Publications

New article on narrative form and the Anthropocene

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)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Kevin Curran (University of Lausanne)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Lieven Ameel (Turku Institute of Advanced Studies)

"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

Event

Guest lecture by Pierre-Louis Patoine (Université Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen)

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

Publications

New article on nonhuman characters in fiction

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

Event

Guest lecture by Kári Driscoll (Utrecht University)

"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

Event

Guest lecture by David Rodriguez (Stony Brook University and NARMESH visiting scholar)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Jan Alber (RWTH University Aachen)

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

Publications

New article on narrative and temporality in postapocalyptic fiction

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)

Read the print version on Jstor

Event

Guest lecture by Alexa Weik von Mossner (Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt)

"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)

Event

Guest lecture by Ben Van Overmeire (Ghent University)

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

Publications

New article on narrative, embodiment, and deep time

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)

Event

Guest lecture by Erin James (University of Idaho)

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

Event

Guest lecture by Jon Hegglund (Washington State University)

"'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)

Event

Guest lecture by Ben De Bruyn (Maastricht University)

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

Publications

New article on Michel Faber's Under the Skin

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)