Publications

Books

Edited Books

Edited Journal Issues

• Sommer, R., M. Caracciolo, C. Gebauer. "European Narratives on Migration." Special Issue of DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 12.2 (2023).
• Sommer, R., M. Caracciolo, C. Gebauer. "Migration and Narrative Ecologies: Public and Media Discourse in the EU." DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 12.2 (2023), 1-17.
• Sommer, R., I. Fábián. "Hungary's 'Rebalanced' Media Ecology: Controlling the Narratives on Migration, Gender, and Europe." DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 12.2 (2023), 117-140.
• Sommer, R., C. Gebauer. "Beyond Vicarious Storytelling: How Level-Telling Fields Help Create a Fair Narrative on Migration." Open Research Europe 3.10 (2023), 1-14.
• "Empirical Approaches to Narrative." DIEGESIS: Interdiscinplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 5.1 (2016). (co-editors: Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon)
• "Beyond (Classical) Narratology." EJES: European Journal for English Studies 8.1 (2004)

Selected Articles

• "Mindwandering as World-Modeling. Toward a Slow Theory of Resonant Reading." In: Hauthal, J., Hove, H. (eds.) On Readers and Reading. Gent: Academia Press, 2023, 23-40.
• "The Slow Refugee: Transit as Stasis, Narrative Ethics, and Level Telling Fields" In: Humanities. 12.4 (2023): 59.
• "Migration and Narrative Dynamics" In: Dawson, P., & Mäkelä, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory (1st ed.). Routledge. 496-511.
• "Dolus Trump: Presidential Lies and the 2016 Masterclass on Truth-Bending." In: Antonius Weixler, Matei Chihaia, Matías Martínez, Katharina Rennhak, Michael Scheffel, and Roy Sommer (eds.): Postfaktisches Erzählen? Post-Truth − Fake News − Narration. Berlin / Boston, MA: De Gruyter, 47-64.  "Libraries of the Mind: What Happens after Reading." In: DIEGESIS: Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 9.1 (2020). 83-99. Abstract↵
• "The (Un)Natural Response: Reading Walter Abish." In: Jan Alber / Brian Richardson (eds.). Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 115-223.
• "Lehrerbildung aus fachwissenschaftlicher Perspektive: Beispiel Anglistik." In: Ulrich Heinen (Hg.). Die Stimmen der Fächer hören! Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019. 307-321.
• "A Tale of Two Concepts: Ansgar Nünning at Sixty." In: Astrid Erll / Roy Sommer (eds.). Narrative in Culture. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2019. 1-14 (zusammen mit Astrid Erll).
• "Brexit as Cultural Performance: Towards a Narratology of Social Drama." In: Astrid Erll / Roy Sommer (eds.). Narrative in Culture. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2019. 293-320.
• "Wer hört? Narratologische Konzepte der 'Stimme', der Neue Pluralismus in der Erzähltheorie und das Grüne in der Literatur." In: Andreas Blödorn / Christof Hamann / Christoph Jürgensen (eds.). Erzählte Moderne. Fiktionale Welten in den 1920er Jahren. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2018. 235-256.
• "Kulturwissenschaftliche Konzepte des Erzählens." In: Wolf Schmid / Martin Huber (eds.). Grundthemen der Literaturwissenschaft: Erzählen. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2018. 613-622.
• "Beware the Siren Servers: How Techlash Novels Like Dave Eggers's The Circle and Jarett Kobek's I Hate the Internet Make the Need for Change Feel Real." In: Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies 9.1-2 (2017). 51-70.
• "Kollektiverzählungen: Wie narrative Wirklichkeitsentwürfe gesellschaftlich wirksam werden." In: Roman Banzer / Hansjörg Quaderer / Roy Sommer (eds.). Liechtenstein erzählen 1: Demokratische Momente. Zürich: Limmat Verlag, 2017. 213-235.
• "The Future of Narratology’s Past: The Future of Metanarratology." In: John Pier / Philippe Roussin (eds.). Emerging Vectors of Narratology. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2017. 593-608.
• "Unnatural Fallacy? The Logic of Unnatural Narrative Theory." In: Style 50.4 (2016). 405-409.
• "Standards in den Literaturwissenschaften: Anmerkungen zum Verhältnis von Theorie und Methodologie am Beispiel der transdisziplinären Erzählforschung." In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 65.1 (2015). 79-95. Abstract↵
• "Narration in Poetry and Drama." In: Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid, and Jörg Schönert (eds.): Handbook of Narratology. 2nd edition, fully revised and expanded. Volume I. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter, 2014. 419-434. (co-author: Peter Hühn).
• "'Metadizájn.' A fogyasztói kultúra önreferenciájának 'mitologikus' megközelítése." In: apertúra: film – vizualitás – elmélet (2013). Translated by Csönge Tamás. [Translation of: "'Metadesign': A 'Mythological' Approach to Self-Reference in Consumer Culture." In: Werner Wolf (ed.): The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media. Forms, Functions, Attempts at Explanation. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2011. 569-578.] URL: http://uj.apertura.hu/2013/tel/sommer-metadizajn-a-fogyasztoi-kultura-onreferenciajanak-mitologikus-megkozelitese/ (26.11.2015).
• "Obama's American Narrative: A Narratological Approach to Complex Rituals." In: Vera Nünning, Jan Rupp, and Gregor Ahn (eds.): Ritual and Narrative: Theoretical Explorations and Historical Case Studies. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013. 77-99.
• "Other Stories, Other Minds: The Intercultural Potential of Cognitive Approaches to Narrative." In: Lars Bernaerts, Luc Herman, and Bart Vervaeck (eds.): Mind and Narrative. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013. 155-174.
• "Erzählforschung als Kulturwissenschaft: Erkenntnisinteressen, Ansätze und Fragestellungen der postklassischen Narratologie." In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift 63.1 (2013). 85-101. Abstract↵
• "The Merger of Classical and Postclassical Narratologies and the Consolidated Future of Narrative Theory.“ In: DIEGESIS. Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung / Interdisciplinary E-Journal for Narrative Research 1.1 (2012). 143-157. Abstract↵
• "What Do Lady Di and a Mobile Phone Have in Common?" In: Der Fremdsprachliche Unterricht Englisch 118 (2012). 40-42.
• "Erzählliteratur der Gegenwart (ab 1930)." In: Matías Martínez (ed.): Handbuch Erzählliteratur. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 2011. 272-284.
• "'Metadesign': A 'Mythological' Approach to Self-Reference in Contemporary Consumer Culture." In: Werner Wolf (ed.): The Metareferential Turn in Contemporary Arts and Media. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2011. 569-578. Abstract↵
• "'Black' British Literary Studies and the Emergence of a New Canon." In: Orbis Litterarum 66.3 (2011): 238-248.
• "The Performative Power of Narrative in Drama: On the Forms and Functions of Dramatic Storytelling in Shakespeare's Plays.” In: Greta Olsen (ed.): Current Trends in Narratology. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2011. (co-author: Ansgar Nünning) Abstract↵
• "Anglistische Gattungsforschung." In: Rüdiger Zymner (ed.): Handbuch der Gattungstheorie. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. 253-256. (co-author: Ansgar Nünning)
• "Methoden strukturalistischer und narratologischer Ansätze." In: Ansgar Nünning (ed.). Methoden der literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Textanalyse. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010. 91-108.
• "Making Narrative Worlds: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Literary Storytelling." In: Sandra Heinen and Roy Sommer (eds.): Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009. 88-108.
• "Introduction: Narratology and Interdisciplinarity." In: Sandra Heinen and Roy Sommer (eds.): Narratology in the Age of Cross-Disciplinary Narrative Research. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009. 1-10. (co-author: Sandra Heinen)
• "Narration in Poetry and Drama." In: Peter Hühn, John Pier, Wolf Schmid, and Jörg Schönert (eds.): Handbook of Narratology. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2009. 228-241. (co-author: Peter Hühn)
• "Diegetic and Mimetic Narrativity: Some Further Steps Towards a Narratology of Drama." In: John Pier and José Ángel García Landa (eds.): Theorizing Narrativity. Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 2008. 331-354. (co-author: Ansgar Nünning)
• "'Contextualism' Revisited: A Survey (and Defence) of Postcolonial and Intercultural Narratologies." In: Journal for Literary Theory 1.1 (2007): 61-79.
• "New Directions in Cultural Studies." In: Ansgar Nünning and Jürgen Schlaeger (eds.): Anglistik heute/English Studies Today. Trier: WVT 2007.
• "The Aesthetic Turn in 'Black' Literary Studies: Zadie Smith's On Beauty and the Case for an Intercultural Narratology." In: Victoria R. Arana (ed.): Black British Aesthetics Today. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 176-192.
• "Initial Framings in Film." In: Werner Wolf and Walter Bernhart (eds.): Framing Borders in Literature and Other Media. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi, 2006. 383-406.
• "Drama and Narrative." In: David Herman, Manfred Jahn, and Marie-Laure Ryan (eds.): The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory. London / New York: Routledge, 2005. 119-124.
• "Beyond (Classical) Narratology: New Approaches to Narrative Theory." In: EJES 8.3 (2004): 3-11.