Narrative Structure in Time: How to Historicize Theoretical Concepts - Incite at Columbia University

As part of the Narrative Workshop, Jessica Merrill joins us from the English and Comparative Literature department at Columbia University to discuss “Narrative Structure in Time: How to Historicize Theoretical Concepts”.

The Narrative Workshop has limited capacity. To inquire about joining, please contact Dian Sheng or Amy Weissenbach.

About Jessica Merrill

Jessica Merrill is a scholar of twentieth century Russian literature and a specialist in the fields of Russian and Czech literary theory, folklore theory, and Russian and Czech modernisms. Her book The Origins of Russian Literary Theory: Folklore, Philology, Form (Northwestern University Press, July 2022) is an intellectual history that reconstructs contexts for thinking about literary form from the 1840s to 1950s. This contextualization enables a reinterpretation of central Russian Formalist concepts and reveals lost paths in the history of literary theory.