Life and Narrative: The Risks and Responsibilities of Storying Experience

About

Brian Schiff is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology and Director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide Human Rights and Conflict Prevention at the American University of Paris. A graduate of The University of Chicago's Committee on Human Development Schiff's research uses narrative in order to examine the meeting place between person social relationships and culture. He is editor of Rereading Personal Narrative and Life Course New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development and author of A New Narrative for Psychology. A. Elizabeth McKim is Professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Thomas University in Fredericton New Brunswick Canada and a founding member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Narrative. She is co-editor of the journal Narrative Works: Issues Investigations & Interventions and the co-author (with William L. Randall) of Reading Our Lives: The Poetics of Growing Old. Sylvie Patron is a Lecturer and Research Supervisor in French Language and Literature at the Université Paris Diderot. A specialist in the history and epistemology of literary theory she has published Le Narrateur: Introduction à la théorie narrative La Mort du narrateur et autres essais and the collective volume Théorie analyse interprétation des récits. She is the author of numerous articles published in both French and English on the narrator and other problems in narrative theory.