James Phelan, Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University, has devoted his research to thinking through the consequences of conceiving of narrative as rhetoric. Since 1993 he has been the editor of Narrative and coeditor of the Theory and Interpretation of Narrative Series at the Ohio State University Press. His recent publications include Debating Rhetorical Narratology (2020, with Matthew Clark), the coedited volume Fictionality in Literature: Core Concepts Revisited (2022), Narrative Medicine: A Rhetorical Rx (2023), and Black Women's Stories of Everyday Racism: Narrative Analysis for Social Change (coauthored with Simone Drake, Robyn Warhol, and Lisa Zunshine, forthcoming). In 2021 Phelan received the Wayne C. Booth Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
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