Narrative, Identity, and Academic Community in Higher Education

Introduction Section I: Interrogating and Framing Reality: Identity and Cultural Perceptions 1. Old and New Technologies of Asynchronous Communication: Virtual Narratives and "Presence" Thomas Klein 2. Onitsha Market Literature: Narrating Identity and Survival in a Colonial African City Raphael Chijioke Njoku and King Yik3. Narrative Identities in India’s Global Age Alan Johnson 4. Narrative Text and Photographs: A Case for Ethnographic Research Poetry Terry Ownby Section I Summary: An Author Conversation Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Thomas Kline, Terry Ownby, and Alan Johnson Section II: Narratives at the Intersection of the Public and Private 5. Finding Story in Unexpected Places: Branding and the Role of Narrative in the Study of Communication John Gribas, Zac Gershberg, Jim DiSanza, and Nancy Legge 6. The "Not Yet Pregnant:" The Impact of Narratives on Infertility Identity and Reproductive Policy Kellee J. Kirkpatrick 7. Letter-Writing and the Eighteenth-Century Scientific Community: Constructing Narratives and Identity Paul Sivitz Section II Summary: An Author Conversation Zac Gershberg, Paul Zivitz, and Kellee Kirkpatrick Section III: Performing Bodies, Creating Stories 8. Narratives of Pain Gesine Hearn 9. Narrative and the Performing Arts: A Symposium
Brian Atteberry, Vanessa Ballam, Grant Harville, and Lauralee Zimmerly 10. Stories and Objects: Narrative and the Construction of Connective Links in an American Quilting Guild Sonja Launspach 11. The Currency of Stories: Anthropologists, Nawaals, and the Strange World of Academe Elizabeth Cartwright Section III Summary: An Author Conversation Gesine Hearn, Sonja Launspach, Grant Harville, and Elizabeth Cartwright Conclusion???: Narrative Diffusion Paul Sivitz