David Herman teaches in the English department at Ohio State University. He has published widely in the areas of interdisciplinary narrative theory, modern and postmodern fiction, and storytelling across media. He is the editor of the book series Frontiers of Narrative and the journal Storyworlds. Brian McHale is Humanities Distinguished Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the author of books and articles on modernist and postmodernist fiction and poetry, narrative theory, and science fiction, and coeditor, with Randall Stevenson, of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. James Phelan is Distinguished University Professor of English at Ohio State University. He is the editor of the journal Narrative and coeditor, with Peter J. Rabinowitz, of the series Theory and Interpretation of Narrative. His most recent books are Living to Tell about It: A Rhetoric and Ethics of Character Narration and Experiencing Fiction: Judgments, Progressions, and the Rhetorical Theory of Narrative.