Sylvie Patron

Sylvie Patron is Professor of 20th Century French Literature and Director of the Paris Centre for Narrative Matters at Université Paris Cité, France. A specialist in the history and epistemology of literary narrative theory, she has published several books in French and in English, among which The Narrator: A Problem in Narrative Theory (University of Nebraska Press, 2023) and The Death of the Narrator and Other Essays (WVT, 2019). She has edited or coedited eight collections in the field of narrative theory, among which Optional-Narrator Theory: Principles, Perspectives, Proposals (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) – the last one being Small Stories Research: Tales, Tellings, and Tellers Across Contexts (with Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Korina Giaxoglou, Routledge, 2023). She was vice-president, then president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative (ISSN) from 2017 to 2020.