In Search of Mid-size Theories for Narratologists and Social Scientists

Maria Mäkelä is senior lecturer in comparative literature and Director of Nar-rare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University, Finland. In 2018, she was a visiting professor at the Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University. She is currently President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. Coeditor of Narrative, Interrupted and Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media, she has published on consciousness, voice, and realism across media, the literary tradition of adultery, authorial ethos, and critical applications of postclassical narratologies. She heads three research projects that deal with the contemporary instrumentalization of narratives.