Narrative and Maps

Marie-Laure Ryan is a world authority on narrative and digital media, fictional worlds and cognitive narratology. She is an independent scholar with a training in literature, linguistics and computer science, and is currently Scholar in Residence in the English Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her books include Possible Worlds, Artificial Intelligence and Narrative Theory (1991), Narrative as Virtual Reality: Immersion and Interactivity in Literature and Electronic Media (2001), and Avatars of Story (2006); she has also edited Cyberspace Textuality: Computer Technology and Literary Theory (1999), Narrative Across Media: The Languages of Storytelling (2004), and, with David Herman and Manfred Jahn, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (2005).