Brian Richardson Travels the World with His Scholarship

Brian Richardson has recently traveled across the world with his scholarship. 

Brian gave a plenary address, “The Boundaries of Narrative and the Limits of Narratology,” at the European Narratology Network conference in Paris in March. In April, he had a fellowship at the Institute of Aesthetics and Communication at Aarhus University in Denmark. There he gave two lectures: “Fiction, Nonfiction, and Postmodern Boundary Violations” and “Dangerous Misreadings in Lolita”; he also led discussion groups on fictionality and on problems in contemporary narrative theory. At the University of Tampere in Finland, he gave a talk on “The Limitations of Standard Narrative Theory.” In May, he gave a Masterclass at the University of Giessen (Germany) on “Unnatural Narrative Beginnings, Middles, and Endings” and a lecture on “The Use and Abuse of Reading in Twentieth Century Fiction” at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He gave the inaugural lecture of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Narrative Studies at York University (UK) on “Unnatural Narratives: Poetics and Paradoxes” in June. Later that month he gave a talk on unnatural stories and plots and chaired a roundtable on unnatural narrative theory at the International Narrative conference in Manchester, UK. His co-authored article, ““What Really Is an Unnatural Narrative? A Response to Tobias Klauk and Tilmann Köppe” was published in Storyworlds 5 (2013). “Narrations non naturelles, théorie non naturelle” appeared online in August at http://narratologie.ehess.fr/index.php?760. His anthology, A Poetics of Unnatural Narrative, co-edited with Jan Alber and Henrik Skov Nielsen, was published in July; it includes an essay by him on “Unnatural Stories and Sequences.”