Our Purpose & Mission

The Institute for Critical Storytelling (ICS) is a group of students and faculty who are interested in how stories can simultaneously function as tools of oppression and liberation. More specifically, we are interested in how stories act as vehicles for ideology and how these ideologies create, maintain, and justify social and racial hierarchies.

The mission of the Institute for Critical Storytelling is to further the theory and practices of critical storytelling and counterstorytelling and to elevate the scholarship and voices of student researchers.