Daniel Punday
Division
- Graduate Faculty
Classification
- Professor
Contact
dpunday@english.msstate.edu
662-325-3644
Address
- 2004 Lee Hall
Education
- Ph.D. 1995 The Pennsylvania State University
- M.A. 1990 The Pennsylvania State University
- B.A. 1988 University of Pittsburgh
Teaching Interests
- contemporary American Literature
- literary theory
Dan Punday served as the Head of the Department of English at Mississippi State University from 2016 until 2023. Before that he was Head of the Department of English and Philosophy at Purdue University, Calumet. He has published on contemporary literature, digital narrative, and narrative theory. He is a past president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative.
Books
- Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination. New York: Routledge, 2021.
- Playing at Narratology: Digital Media as Narrative Theory. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019.
- Computing as Writing. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
- Writing at the Limit: Searching for the Vocation of the Novel in the Contemporary Media Ecology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2012.
- Five Strands of Fictionality: The Institutional Construction of Contemporary American Writing. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010.
- Narrative Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Narratology. New York: Palgrave, 2003.
- Narrative after Deconstruction. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002.
Recent Articles in Refereed Journals and Edited Collections
- “Networks, Interfaces, Digital Media Infrastructure, and Their Implications for Fictional World Theory.” The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. Paul Dawson and Maria Mäkelä. New York: Routledge, 2023. 149-63.
- “Conclusion: Digital Space and the Keyword.” Digital Narrative Spaces: An Interdisciplinary Examination. Ed. Daniel Punday. New York: Routledge, 2021. 160-72.
- “Digital Writing: Authorship and Platform.” World Authorship. Eds. Tobias Boes, Rebecca Braun, and Emily Spiers. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 118-31.
- “Metalepsis and Emotion in Unnatural Stories.” Unnatural Narratology: Extensions, Revisions, and Challenges. Eds. Jan Albert and Brian Richardson. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2020. 99-114.
- “Rereading Manovich’s Algorithm: Genre and Use in Possible Worlds Theory.” Possible Worlds Theory and Contemporary Narratology. Eds. Alice Bell and Marie-Laure Ryan. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2019. 296-314.
- “UI Time and the Digital Event.” The Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Narrative Theories. Eds. Zara Dinnen and Robyn Warhol. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. 202-212.
- “The University ‘After’” Theory.” American Literature in Transition: 1900-2000. Ed. Stephen J. Burn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 347-61.
- “Space across Narrative Media: Towards an Archaeology of Narratology.” Narrative 25.1 (January 2017): 92-112.
