The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

aul Dawson received a PhD in English from the University of Melbourne. He is currently an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of two monographs: The Return of the Omniscient Narrator: Authorship and Authority in Twenty-First Century Fiction (OSU Press, 2013) and Creative Writing and the New Humanities (Routledge, 2005). He is the winner of the 2010 prize for Best Essay in Narrative, awarded by the International Society for the Study of Narrative, and he was guest-editor for a 2018 special issue of Poetics Today on Narrative Theory and the History of the NovelMaria Mäkelä received her PhD in Comparative Literature at Tampere University where she is now a Senior Lecturer and founding director of Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies (2016-2020). In 2018, she was Visiting Professor at the Centre for Fictionality Studies, Aarhus University and in 2019, President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. She is co-editor of Narrative, Interrupted (De Gruyter, 2012) and Narrative Theory, Literature, and New Media (Routledge, 2015), as well as guest-editor for a 2022 Poetics Today special issue on critical approaches to the storytelling boom. She heads three funded projects dealing with the instrumentalization of narratives.