Episode 42: Jim Phelan and Daniel Punday — Charles Yu’s “Problems for Self-Study”

In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Daniel Punday discuss Charles Yu’s 2020 short story, “Problems of Self-Study,” which you can access here to read along with the podcast. Daniel Punday is Professor of English at Mississippi State University, where he specializes in contemporary American literature, digital media, and literary theory, especially narrative theory. Punday’s books include Narrative after Deconstruction, Five Strands of Fictionality, Narrative Bodies: Towards a Corporeal Narratology, Writing at the Limit. The Novel in the New Media Ecology, Computing as Writing, Playing at Narratology, and most recently, Infrastructure in Video Games. Punday has also been a major contributor to the International Society for the Study of Narrative: he served as president; he organized two annual conferences himself, one with his colleague at Mississippi State, Kelly Marsh; Punday also served for several years together with Lindsay Holmgren as a liaison between the society and its other conference organizers.