Digital Narrative Spaces

Daniel Punday received his PhD in English at The Pennsylvania State University. He is currently Head of the Department of English at Mississippi State University. He has published on contemporary literature, digital narrative, and narrative theory. He has recently completed his term as the president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative. His previous publications include Computing as Writing (2015) and Writing at the Limit: Searching for the Vocation of the Novel in the Contemporary Media Ecology (2012).

• Introduction: “Four Types of Textual Space, and Their Digital Manifestations" by Marie-Laure RyanChapter 1: “Unnatural Spaces in The Pickle Index: Inscrutable Mapping and Post-digital Dys-topicalization" by Astrid EnsslinChapter 2: “Stalking Rebus: Locative Media and Global Conspiracy" by Brian L. GreenspanChapter 3: “Virtual Wanderings: Embodied Spatial Narrativity in ‘Walking Simulators’" by Greg Whistance-SmithChapter 4: “Pencils, paper, and pixels: Mapping imaginary spaces" by Paul WakeChapter 5: “Behind-the-Screens (BTS) Storytelling: Reverse Engineeringthe Computational Infrastructure of Nick Montfort’s Round from CPU to Silicon" by Lai-Tze FanChapter 6: “The Digital Terrain of the Literary Anecdote" by David CiccoriccoChapter 7: “Footprints in Spatial Narratives: Wearable Technology, Active Reading, and a New Digital Literary Mapping of Dorothy Wordsworth’s Scafell Pike Excursion" by Joanna E. Taylor and Christopher DonaldsonChapter 8: “Archival Interface and Nationalist Memorializations of 9/11" by Dhanashree ThoratConclusion: “Digital Space and the Keyword" by Daniel Punday