Jonathan Gottschall

Jonathan Gotschall is a Distinguished Fellow in the English Department at Washington & Jefferson College. His past books include The Storytelling Animal and The Professor in the Cage.

2 Posts

Anatomy of a Murder

On New Year’s Eve 2021 news of my killing began to circulate on Twitter. holy shit this is a murder https://t.co/CwsF0sZ9sZ — Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 1, 2022 I scrolled through scores of posts before I could stop myself, pausing to read replies and retweets. Some

Jonathan Gottschall

18 Mar 2022 · 10 min read

The Universal Structure of Storytelling

Storytelling is then—in every era and every culture—a dramatization of the everlasting war between the princesses and the tigers.

Jonathan Gottschall

29 Nov 2021 · 11 min read