James Phelan (literary scholar)
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January 25, 1951 Flushing, New York |
| Occupation | literary |
| Literary movement | Narratology, Rhetoric |
| Notable works | Living to Tell About It: A Rhetoric And Ethics Of Character Narration |
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James Phelan (born 1951) is an American writer, literary scholar, and Distinguished University Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He joined the faculty of Ohio State in 1977 after earning his MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. At the University of Chicago, he studied with the Chicago School theorists Sheldon Sacks and Wayne Booth. In 2013 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Aarhus University (Denmark) and in 2016 he was inducted into the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
The editor of Narrative (the journal of the International Society for the Study of Narrative), he has also written numerous books and articles on narrative theory, including Worlds from Words (1981), Reading People, Reading Plots (1989), Narrative as Rhetoric(1996), Living to Tell about It (2005), Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative (2007). Phelan has also edited or co-edited several collections including the Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory (2005, co-edited with Peter J. Rabinowitz) and Teaching Narrative Theory (2010, co-edited with David Herman and Brian McHale). With Peter J. Rabinowitz, Phelan co-edits the Ohio State University Press book series, The Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. Born in Flushing, NY, Phelan graduated in 1972 with a BA from Boston College. At BC he played on the basketball team, earning Academic All-America honors in 1972.
In 1991 he wrote a memoir called Beyond the Tenure Track: Fifteen Months in the Life of an English Professor. Along with Frederick Aldama, Brian McHale, and David Herman, he is one of the founders of Project Narrative, an initiative at Ohio State University.
Reading the American Novel, 1920-2010. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.
Narrative Theory: Core Concepts and Critical Debates. Co-authored with David Herman, Peter J. Rabinowitz, Brian Richardson, and Robyn Warhol. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
After Testimony: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Holocaust Narrative for the Future. Co-edited with Susan Suleiman and Jakob Lothe. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2012.
Fact, Fiction, and Form: Selected Essays of Ralph W. Rader. Columbus:Ohio State University Press, 2011.
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