This volume analyzes the Serial podcast, situating it in the trajectory of other popular crime narratives and contemporary cultural theory.

Ellen McCracken is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Program in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Introduction: The Unending Story

[Ellen McCracken]

1. The Ethics of Serialized True Crime: Fictionality in Serial Season One

[Erica Haugtvedt]

2. Sounds Authentic: The Acoustic Construction of Serial's Storyworld

[Jillian DeMair]

3. Narrative Levels, Theory of Mind, and Sociopathy in True-Crime Narrative-Or, How Is Serial Different from Your Average Dateline Episode?

[David Letzler]

4. The Serial Commodity: Rhetoric, Recombination, and Indeterminacy in the Digital Age

[Ellen McCracken]

5. "What We Know": Convicting Narratives in NPR's Serial

[Sandra Kumamoto Stanley]

6. The Impossible Ethics of Serial: Sarah Koenig, Foucault, Lacan

[Ryan Engley]

7. Serial's Aspirational Aesthetics and Racial Erasure

[Charli Valdez]