Visitors

Professor Lois Presser

Narrative Criminology: Theory and Methods
Visited Narrare during the academic year 2019-2020
Department of Sociology
University of Tennessee

About me

As a Fulbright Professor with the U.S. Fulbright program, located within the Faculty of Social Sciences at Tampere University and affiliated with Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary NarrativeStudies, I will conduct research and teach in the area of narrative criminology which I founded. I am a professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee in the USA, a faculty I joined in 2002 after earning my Ph.D. in Criminology/Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati. I have published extensively in the areas of narrative, harm, identity, and restorative justice. My books include Been a Heavy Life, Why We Harm, Narrative Criminology (co-edited), Inside Story: How Narratives Drive Mass Harm and The Emerald Handbook of Narrative Criminology (co-edited). My Fulbright/Tampere project concerns the development of methods for pinpointing facts and understandings that have been rendered invisible in dominant cultural stories. My concern is with the logics taken for granted in, and the real constraints on people’s lives omitted from, hegemonic narratives. In addition to this research, I will co-teach graduate seminars and give public lectures.

Kim Schoofs

PhD student
Visited Narrare during the Autumn 2019
Department of Linguistics
KU Leuven

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Kim Schoofs is a PhD student at KU Leuven within the Department of Linguistics. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Brussels, 2013), a master’s degree in linguistics and literature (KU Leuven, 2014) and a master’s degree in broadcast journalism (KU Leuven, 2015). In 2016, she started working on her PhD project, under the supervision of Dorien Van De Mieroop. Kim’s PhD project aims to gain insight into new ways of scrutinizing the dialectic relation between the discursive construction of local stories and of identities on the one hand, and dominant discourses circulating in the global context on the other hand. The theoretical elaboration of Positioning Analysis is at the core of her project. In general, Kim’s research interests cover Narrative, Life stories, Identity Construction, Discourse Analysis and Interactional Sociolinguistics.

Professor Henrik Skov Nielsen

Professor & Director of Narrative Research Lab and Centre for Fictionality Studies
Narrare's Visiting professor during the academic years 2015-2018
Department of Aesthetic and Communication
Aarhus University

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Henrik Skov Nielsen is a Professor at the Department of Communication and Culture at Aarhus University. He heads ‘Narrative Research Lab’ and ‘Centre for Fictionality Studies’. His areas of expertise include first person narratives, unnatural narratives and fictionality.

Nielsen and his research teams work with Narrare scholars on unnatural narratology, free indirect discourse and rhetorical uses of fictionality. In addition to this theoretically and methodologically inclined research collaboration, Nielsen’s visiting period includes graduate and doctoral training, visiting lectures and workshops, as well as the planning of future research infrastructures and funding applications, particularly in the context of Scandinavia and the Baltic.

Professor Jens Brockmeier

Department of Psychology, Health and Gender
Visited Narrare during 2015
The American University of Paris

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Jens Brockmeier is a Professor of Psychology at the American University of Paris. His research is concerned with issues of memory, identity, and the autobiographical process, which he has studied in a variety of cultural contexts and languages and under conditions of health and illness. His work includes Beyond the Archive. Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015)

Jens Brockmeier was a visiting professor at Narrare in 2015.

On May 19th, 2015, he lectured on “Memory and metaphor: How do we make sense of the past?”

On May 25th, a workshop day was organized on the subject with the title Narrative, Memory, Identity, with following program:

11:00-12:00 Jens Brockmeier “Rethinking Narrative Identity”

13:00-17:30 Closed seminar workshops for researchers

Brockmeier was a commentator on Narrare’s “Narrative identity” -workshop with professor Arto Laitinen.

In August 2015 (17th-21st), Brockmeier held a course at Tampere Summer School with the title The Autobiographical Process.