David Herman is Professor in the Department of English at North Carolina State University. His research and teaching interests center on discourse analysis, with a special focus on the study of narrative. The author of Universal Grammar and Narrative Form (Duke UP, 1995) and Story Logic: Problems and Possibilities of Narrative (U of Nebraska P, 2002), Herman is the editor of Narratologies: New Perspectives on Narrative Analysis (Ohio State UP, 1999) and Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences (forthcoming from CSLI Publications in 2003). He has also published articles on such topics as linguistic markers of spatial reference in stories; recipients' reliance on story schemas to facilitate narrative comprehension; narrators' use of verbal moods to signal points of view adopted on storyworlds; storytelling in spoken versus written discourse; and the broader role of narrative in human cognition, communication, and interaction. Current projects include a monograph on "narrative as cognitive artifact" and a textbook on linguistic methods of narrative analysis. Both projects draw on a corpus of narratives recorded as part of the North Carolina Language and Life Project. In addition, Herman is the editor of the Frontiers of Narrative book series at the University of Nebraska Press and one three lead editors of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dherman/RENT.html), a 400,000-word reference resource involving 15 consultant editors and slated for publication in 2005.