Featured JNT Authors
55.3 Featured Author: Andrew Todd
1. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. I believe one of the most useful frameworks for analyzing narrative is by reading a novel through its handling of a fundamental tension between stability and dynamism. In…
55.3 Feature Author: Katherine Weese
1. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT: My essay addresses the multilinear structure of Kate Atkinson’s Life After Life¸ exploring the novel in conjunction with Brian Richardson’s work on…
55.3 Featured Author: Annjeanette Wiese
1. Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. My contribution, “Impossible Identities: An Exploration of Character and Storyworld in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown,” looks at the ways that Yu’s novel uses unnatural narrative techniques to connect…
55.2 Featured Author: Johannes Wally
Conceptualizations of Forgiveness as a Way of Exploring a Text’s Implied Worldview Forgiveness is often recognized as a general human phenomenon. It occurs across all cultures and societies and is seen as a positive force, a way of freeing oneself…
55.2 Featured Author: Aarushi Punia
1.Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. The essay I’ve written for JNT expands the narrative concept of focalization, which answers to the question of ‘who sees’ instead of ‘who speaks’. It analyses two novels that…
55.1 Featured Author: Dr. Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
1.Tell us a bit about the essay you wrote for JNT. Under-narration is a narrative mode that has not been studied very much so far. It can be roughly defined as ‘hinting at a story without fully telling it’. It…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Ella Wydrzynska
My JNT essay titled ‘Opening a Window or Pulling Back the Curtain’ is based on a section of my PhD thesis which I completed at the University of Nottingham in 2023. My doctoral research explored a variety of interactive postmodern…
JNT 54.3 Featured Author: Margaret Mackey
As a young reader, I tore through every book about Nancy Drew or Judy Bolton or Beverly Gray that I could lay my hands on. My access to these books was spotty since the library refused to carry them. I…
"Having a crisis of faith is essentially the new normal in the humanities, but refracted through the world’s new abnormal, it became something else entirely, especially when teaching a student population disproportionately hit by the virus, as I do."
- JNT 51.1 Featured Author: Dr. Frederick J. Solinger
"As an audience member I witnessed, from a distance, the accelerated lifespan of a temporary encampment transitioning into something resembling a city, forged by people who shared little besides having survived inhumane traumas. "
- JNT 50.3 Featured Author: Dr. Nasia Anam
"The tempestuousness of Rhys, the provocativeness of Mansfield and the theoretical weight of Woolf, all come to bear equally, in fractious albeit enriching ways, in this peregrination through women’s rooms."
- JNT 50.1 Featured Author: Dr. Ruchi Mundeja
"Writing the essay in 2019 felt like a charm against the current erosion of women’s rights compounding the historic lack of women’s autonomy and voice."
- JNT 49.3 Featured Author: Dr. Christine Hume
"One cannot truly think unless one ceases the banal activities and drudgery that take up too much of our brief lives. Such a simple idea is foundational to all of Arendt’s work, from The Human Condition (1958) to her unfinished masterpiece The Life of the Mind (posthumously published, 1978)."
- JNT 48.3 Featured Author: Professor Eric Keenaghan
"If critics mention the texts at all, they tend to offer compelling assessments that the characters and events depicted are stereotypical, offensive, and responsible for perpetuating real-world racism or injustice."
-JNT 51.2 FEATURED AUTHOR SARAH COPLAND
