Lois Presser
List of John Benjamins publications in which Lois Presser is involved.
Articles
2026 Narrating violent victimization by positioning self and others Narrative Inquiry 36:1, pp. 1–23 | Article
Victimologists observe that telling one’s story can foster healing for survivors of violence. To understand these processes better, victims’ narratives must be understood as situated acts of telling. This paper takes one man’s narration of victimization long past — child abuse and rape — as a… read more
2024 Narratology, applied: The case of narrative criminology Applied Narratology, Moenandar, Sjoerd-Jeroen, Laura Karttunen and Anna Ovaska (eds.), pp. 364–386 | Article
Criminology is foundationally an applied discipline, or one whose knowledge seeks to shape some non-academic practice. Narratives – particularly the narratives of parties to ‘crime’ – are essential to criminology, but criminologists have hardly engaged with narratology. This paper tracks the… read more