This volume offers a cross-disciplinary approach to narratives in the 21st century, in response to the growing scholarly concern with the decreasing explanatory capacity of theoretical concepts and narrative configurations originating in postmodernism. The essays collected here meet this conceptual gap by offering cutting-edge research from a variety of disciplines, such as literary studies and design and media studies, as well as social sciences, all of which employ narrative models to explore the distinctive patterns which shape contemporary conceptions of the 3rd millennium. Jessica Homberg-Schramm studied English Studies, German Studies and Political Science at the University of Cologne, Germany, and Durham University, UK. She taught German as a Foreign Language at Murray Edwards College at Cambridge University and English Literary Studies at the University of Cologne. In her PhD thesis Colonised by Wankers she analyses the contemporary Scottish novel as postcolonial. Her research and teaching focuses on 20th- and 21st-century fiction, Scottish studies, Black British writing and Victorian literature and culture. Anna Rasokat studies History, English and Medicine at the University of Cologne, Germany. Her current project From Bench to Global Bedside: Imagining Medical Paradigm Shifts in Global Health examines literary and scientific narratives of public health since the 19th century. She is a member of the editorial staff of Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies, and her recent work includes a paper on the representation of leprosy and ethics of care in Graham Greenes A Burnt-Out Case presented at the conference Doing Science. Texts. Patterns. Practices (2015). Felicitas Schweiker studied Romance Languages and Literatures, Philosophy, and English Studies at the University of Cologne, Germany and at the Université Paris-Est Créteil, France. She completed her Masters thesis on space and place in contemporary Canadian novels and is currently enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Cologne. Her project on contemporary Canadian city fiction was funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom.