Affiliation: Ohio State University
Keywords: Narrative Theory - Environmental Humanities - Literature Studies
Katra Byram works and teaches in the areas of narrative theory, environmental humanities, gender studies, and German literature and culture from the late 19th century to the present. In all of these areas, she asks how historical and cultural contexts affect the stories that people tell about themselves and the world around them. Her work in the environmental humanities focuses on the way that existing narratives and narrative forms are adapting as evolving environmental realities destabilize conceptions of the relationship between people and the nonhuman world—and on the way that inherited narrative patterns persist. In this vein, she has published on stories about tiny houses as a contemporary form of the traditional Bildungsroman.