Annjeanette Wiese

  • Associate Chair, Director of Undergraduate Studies
  • Teaching Associate Professor
  • HUMANITIES

Annjeanette Wiese (Ph.D., Comparative Literature) is Associate Chair/Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Humanities Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has published articles on experimental fiction and narrative in various contexts, including College Literature, Journal of Narrative Theory, Prose Studies, Frontiers of Narrative Studies, Narrative, and Style. Her book  was published as a part of the University of Nebraska Press鈥檚 Frontiers of Narrative Series in fall 2021.  She is currently working on a new book project provisionally titled, Toward a More Inclusive Narratology: Rethinking Mimesis and the Lessons We Can Learn from Contemporary Experiments in Narrative.

Teaching Interests

Narrative theory, experimental literature, the rhetorical and formal differences between nonfiction and fiction, narrative in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Courses

  • HUMN 1001: Forms of Narrative: An Introduction to Humanities
  • HUMN 1110/1120: Introduction to Humanities (previously 1010/1020)
  • HUMN 2000: Methods and Approaches to Humanities
  • HUMN 3210: Narrative
  • HUMN 3500: Literatures of Consciousness
  • HUMN 3666: Critical Futures: Theorizing Climate Change
  • HUMN 4170: Fiction and Reality
  • ENGL 3060: Modern and Contemporary Literature

Major Works in Progress

  • Toward a More Inclusive Narratology: Rethinking Mimesis and the Lessons We Can Learn from Contemporary Experiments in Narrative (manuscript in progress)

Publications

  • Introduction and Critical Review: Tobias Wolff Entry. Short Story Criticism, Layman Poupard Publishing
    (2023).
  • 鈥淩epresentational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado鈥檚 In the Dream House,鈥 Style 57.2 (2023), 205-224.
  •  (2021, University of Nebraska Press).
  • 鈥淩eplacing Omniscience: Superior Knowledge and Narratorial Access,鈥 Narrative 29.3 (2021): 321-38.
  • 鈥淲ho Says? Problematic Narration in Paul Auster鈥檚 City of Glass.鈥 Special issue, 鈥淓xperimental Literature and Narrative Theory,鈥 ed. Brian Richardson. Frontiers of Narrative Studies 3.2 (2017): 304-318.
  • 鈥淭elling What Is True: Truthiness and Fictional Truths in Hybrid (Non)Fiction.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Prose Studies 37.1 (2015): 66-82.
  • 鈥淣arrative Palimpsest: The Representation of History and Identity in Agota Kristof鈥檚 The Notebook, The Proof, and The Third Lie.鈥&苍产蝉辫;Journal of Narrative Theory 43.2 (2013): 137-159.
  • 鈥淩ethinking Postmodern Narrativity: Narrative Construction and Identity Formation in Don DeLillo鈥檚 White Noise.College Literature 39.3 (2012): 1-25.
  • Translation: 鈥淭he End of Writing? Grammatology and Plasticity.鈥 [鈥淟a fin de l鈥櫭ヽriture? Grammatologie et plasticit茅.鈥漖 Written by Catherine Malabou. The Legacy of Jacques Derrida. Spec. issue of The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 12:4 (2007): 431-441.
  • Translation: 鈥淎gain: 鈥楾he Wounds of the Spirit Heal, and Leave No Scars Behind.鈥欌 Written by Catherine Malabou. Keynote address delivered by C. Malabou at 鈥淔ollowing Derrida: Legacies,鈥 a conference presented by Mosaic at the University of Manitoba, October 2006. Published in Following Derrida: Legacies. Spec. issue of Mosaic 40:2 (2007): 27-37.

Recent Conferences & Lectures

  • 鈥淩evisiting Mimesis: Toward a More Inclusive Narratology.鈥 2024 ISSN International Conference on Narrative (annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Narrative), Newcastle, UK, April 2024. (proposal accepted)
  • 鈥淭he Effects of Form: Rethinking Narrativity and the Lessons We Can Learn from Experiments in Narrative.鈥 2023 ISSN International Conference on Narrative (annual meeting of the International Society for the Study of Narrative), TWU, Dallas, TX, March 2023.
  • 鈥淩epresentational Intelligibility and the Confines of Framing the Self: Carmen Maria Machado鈥檚 In the Dream House.鈥 2022 ISSN International Conference on Narrative, University of Chichester, UK, June 2022.
  • 鈥淚mpossible Identities: An Exploration of Character and Storyworld in Charles Yu鈥檚 Interior Chinatown,鈥 Impossible Fictions Conference, University of Chicago, March 2022.
  • 鈥淩ethinking the Context of Narration: Problems and Possibilities of Fictional Enunciation,鈥 2021 ISSN International Conference on Narrative, virtual conference, May 2021.
  • World Literature Series lecture, 鈥淲illiam Faulkner,鈥 hosted by the Boulder Book Store, Spring 2021. [Postponed]
  • 鈥淢ind the Gap: Omissions and the Relationship between Narrative Time and Human Experience in Woolf, McGuire, McEwan, and Jenkins,鈥 2020 International Conference on Narrative, Mississippi State University, New Orleans, LA, March 2020.
  • 鈥淚n (Partial) Defense of Omniscience,鈥 2019 International Conference on Narrative, Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, May鈥揓une 2019.
  • World Literature Series lecture, 鈥淓.L. Doctorow,鈥 hosted by the Boulder Book Store, March 2019.
  • 鈥淎n Argument for Narrative Truthiness: Tim O鈥橞rien and Using Complex Narrative to Counter Fake News,鈥 2018 International Conference on Narrative, McGill University, Montreal, April 2018.
  • 鈥淐onflicting Categories: Graphic Narratives and the Revision of Truth,鈥 2017 International Conference on Narrative, University of Kentucky, March 2017.
  • "Satire and Truth: Fake News and the Complex Nature of Narrative Truthiness," 2016 International Conference on Narrative, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 2016.
  • 鈥淣arrative Truthiness and the Rhetorical Context,鈥 2015 International Conference on Narrative, Purdue University Calumet, Chicago, IL, March 2015.
  • 鈥淏eyond Opposition: The Duality of Truth and Fiction in Binjamin Wilkomirski鈥檚 Holocaust Memoir,鈥 International Conference on Narrative, MIT, Cambridge, MA. March 2014.
  • 鈥淏lurring Narrative Truth: Truthiness and Fictional Truths in Hybrid (Non-)Fiction,鈥 International Conference on Narrative, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. June 2013.
  • 鈥溾楤ooks say: She did this because鈥: Julian Barnes鈥 _Flaubert鈥檚 Parrot_ and the Argument for a New Realism,鈥 Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 in February. University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, February 2013.
  • 鈥淐ontemporary Palimpsests: Telling History and Identity as Narrative in Morrison鈥檚 Beloved and Atwood鈥檚Handmaid鈥檚 Tale,鈥 Narrative Conference, Case Western reserve University, Cleveland, OH, April 2010.

Outreach and other work

  • Organizer of the World Literature Series lectures hosted by the Boulder Book Store
  • Honors Council representative, Humanities
  • Invited interview on myth, truth, and the Loch Ness Monster for A&S eNewsletter, 12/1/23 
Section 001, Class Nbr 22029
Critical Futures: Theorizing Climate Change