Cities of My Heart

“Cities of My Heart” is a brief intellectual autobiography. It traces the progress of my work in narrative studies through attention to the important places—and people—in my career. My encounters with these cities and especially with the scholars in each of them—Prague, Ann Arbor, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Toronto, Stockholm, Paris, and Amsterdam—have been crucial to the evolution of my thought. I am pleased to pay tribute, however small, to these cities and these colleagues in this short piece.