Narrative Organizations

Research + Education + Storytelling + Practice

Research
Orgs

Center for Digital Narrative
University of Bergen

Center for Narrative Research
University of Wuppertal

Narrative Intelligence Lab
University of Kentucky

Project Narrative
Ohio State University

Fostering a global intellectual community that encourages and advances scholarly research at the intersections of philosophical, literary, cultural, textual, visual, medial, art, and aesthetic theories.

Dedicated to developing connections between scholars of fiction worldwide. It brings together specialists of literature, literary theory, cinema, video games, philosophy, psychology and neurosciences. 

Humanities-driven research in electronic literature, games studies, digital culture, and computation to advance understanding of digital narrative.

Research and teaching on all aspects of narrative from theoretical and systematic, as well as historical and cultural perspectives. Publisher of Diegesis.

Facilitating research on the role of narrative in human experience, assisting the development of theory on the narrative complexity of human life and encouraging the use of narrative approaches to practice in a variety of fields.

The commission gathers a large network of researchers from around the world, fostering interdisciplinary discussions on the intersections between science and literature.

Bringing together researchers in literary studies, social sciences, game studies, media and journalism, history, philosophy, education, psychology, health sciences, political science and administrative studies.

Investigating how computers can use narrative to interact more naturally with people.

A cluster of faculty, visiting scholars, and graduate students who work on narrative and narrative theory.

Project Narrative regularly holds free events hosting narrative experts, that can be joined by Zoom.

Research
Projects

AI Stories
University of Bergen

Extending Digital Narrative (XDN)
University of Bergen

Narrative Group
USC Institute for Creative Technologies

A five-year ERC-funded project that explores how narrative archetypes shape the stories generative AI creates.

Investigating the narrative potential of new technologies to understand how they will shape future storytelling genres.

Developing ideas and analytical instruments that will equip researchers, professional groups and non-academic audiences to navigate today’s social and textual environments that are dominated by storytelling.

Pursuing basic and applied research to advance technologies for automated storytelling and narrative understanding. Core technologies include logical abduction reasoning with large-scale formalizations of commonsense knowledge, generative AI models for content creation, and the integration of neural, probabilistic, and symbolic reasoning methods.

Storytelling

Listening Lab
Penn Medicine, PA USA

Stanford Storytelling Project
Stanford University, CA USA

A storytelling initiative created by patients, caregivers, staff, and providers, that embraces the power of listening as a form of care.

Exploring all forms of stories, from myth to memoir, in all kinds of media, from print to performance.

Committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. We’ve helped nearly 700,000 people across the country have meaningful conversations about their lives, archived in the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.

Communications

Reframe
USA

Transforming how practitioners and their organizations approach storytelling now and into the future.

Cultivating imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.

Collaborating with social movements to transform deeply held beliefs and values to make equity and justice the foundations of multiracial democracy.

Investing in people — strategists, creatives, leaders, and dreamers — to develop the skills, acumen, and networks needed to advance just narratives at scale.