The Use and Abuse of Stories: New Directions in Narrative Hermeneutics

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Hanna Meretoja is Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of SELMA: Centre for the Study of Storytelling Experientiality and Memory at the University of Turku (Finland) and Principal Investigator in the Academy of Finland research consortium Instrumental Narratives: The Limits of Storytelling and New Story-Critical Narrative Theory (2018-2023). Her monographs include The Ethics of Storytelling: Narrative Hermeneutics History and the Possible (Oxford 2018) and The Narrative Turn in Fiction and Theory (2014) and she has co-edited The Routledge Companion to Literature and Trauma (2020 with Colin Davis) and Storytelling and Ethics: Literature Visual Arts and the Power of Narrative (2018) Memory Studies special issue Cultural Memorial Forms (2021 with Eneken Laanes) and Poetics Today special issue Critical Approaches to the Storytelling Boom (2022 with Maria Mäkelä). Mark Freeman is Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Society in the Department of Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross. He is the author of numerous works including Rewriting the Self: History Memory Narrative (1993); Hindsight: The Promise and Peril of Looking Backward (Oxford 2010); The Priority of the Other: Thinking and Living Beyond the Self (Oxford 2014); and most recently Do I Look at You with Love? Reimagining the Story of Dementia (2021). Winner of the Theodore R. Sarbin Award from the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology and the Joseph B. Gittler Award from the American Psychological Foundation Freeman is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association and serves as Editor for the Oxford University Press series Explorations in Narrative Psychology.