Master of Arts in Narrative Studies Storytelling Matters As human beings we are seemingly built to crave stories, to tell stories, to respond to stories, and to make sense of the world and ourselves through story. In this 30-credit interdisciplinary master’s program you’ll focus on the structural, social, cultural, aesthetic, rhetorical, and historical aspects of narrative and storytelling in texts, film, and other media. You’ll explore how narratives have been and are being constructed across cultures, geographies, and genres. You’ll gain practice in crafting narratives for a range of audiences. You’ll prepare to apply the power of narrative in the world. Valuable and relevant for work in professions and organizations that value imagination, critical thinking, and highly skilled communication, this master’s degree can also advance your teaching career or serve as a great launch-point for doctoral studies.
Program Faculty Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Chicana/o Studies, Indigenous literature, Southwest Studies, oral history, testimonio, environmental justice, and colonial literature.
Asao Inoue
Professor of English
Antiracist writing assessment, compassion and social justice work in writing classrooms and the academy, labor-based grading contracts, composition theory and pedagogy, understanding and addressing White language supremacy.
Rafael A. Martínez Orozco
Assistant Professor, Southwest Borderlands
Immigrant narratives, migration storytelling, social justice and social movements, undocumented literature, oral histories, digital humanities, podcasting, audio and radio production.
Learn More For more information about joining this innovative master’s degree at ASU’s Polytechnic campus and full admission criteria, contact:
Ian Moulton, PhD ASU President's Professor of English and Cultural History Santa Catalina Hall, Room 251A Ian.Moulton@asu.edu 480-727-1172 College of Integrative Sciences and Arts 7271 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall ASU Polytechnic campus Mesa, AZ 85212-2780
Ian Moulton, Director
ASU President's Professor of English and Cultural History
History of gender and sexuality, sixteenth-century English and Italian literature, history of the book, cultural and intellectual history.
Patricia Colleen Murphy
Principal Lecturer of English
Social media, creative writing (fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction), technology adoption, Drupal, digital humanities.
Jewell Parker Rhodes
Virginia G. Piper Endowed Chair and Professor of Narrative Studies
Fiction/historical fiction for adults and children, African American storytelling, memoir, and narratives for social justice.
Wendy R. Williams
Associate Professor of English Education
Literacy, visual narratives, arts in education, adolescent and children’s literature, narrative research, out of school learning.
"To be a person is to have a story to tell." – Isak Dinesen