Narrative Culture, Volume 12, Number 2, Fall 2025

Narrative Culture claims narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective to grasp its place comparatively across time and space. Inviting contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, the journal seeks to offer a platform that integrates approaches spread across numerous disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. 

Volume 12, Number 2 (Fall 2025)

Editors’ Introduction: Emerging Themes and Unexpected Connections
Sheila Bock and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa

The Rise and Fall of the Nabob: Narrating the Emerging Empire in Eighteenth-Century England
Mrinmoyee Roy

Reclaiming Sapphic Vampire Narrative in the Twilight Renaissance
Vassa Yakymets

Using Narrative Webs to Facilitate Effective Science Communication
Emma Frances Bloomfield

Children’s Television, Happy Endings, and Values: A Case Study of the Preschool Series Momonster
Slivia Rusiñol-Romero and Sergio Cobo-Durán

“I’ve Become a Blue-winged Bird . . .”: Tracing Violent Deaths in Folktales with the Aid of an Algorithmic Companion
Risto Järv