Gerald Prince is Professor of Romance Languages and Chair of French Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Faculty at the Annenberg School of Communication, and a member of the graduate groups in Linguistics and in Comparative Literature. He is the author of hundreds of articles and reviews and of several books, including Métaphysique et technique dans l'œuvre romanesque de Sartre; A Grammar of Stories; Narratology: The Form and Functioning of Narrative; A Dictionary of Narratology; Narrative as Theme; Guide du roman de langue française: 1901-1950, and he is writing Guide du roman de langue française: 1951-2000.Contact: mailto:gprince@babel.ling.upenn.edu