This introduction to the volume Narratives of Resilience/Narrative der Resilienz begins with a brief discussion of the term ‘resilience’ as a travelling concept across a range of research fields, evaluating both its critique and its promise, especially for the environmental humanities. It proceeds to consider how resilience research might be expanded through literary and cultural studies and how these can develop concepts of cultural resilience and literary resilience in dialogue with other disciplines. In the definition of “narratives of resilience”, which is the main concern of this introduction, both a transdisciplinary and a specifically literary concept of narrative are taken into account. In contrast to disaster narratives and risk narratives, resilience narratives, seen as a transhistorical phenomenon, focus on the vulnerability experienced by individuals and societies and, even more so, on the strenuous process of their successful or failing resilience. That leads to reflections on the role of narrative practices in both disclosing and, potentially, building resilience, based on the conviction that resilience can be developed through and in the act of sharing stories of catastrophic events and survival. The introduction concludes with a systematic overview of the research questions, concerns, and approaches in this volume’s chapters. The latter examine various narrative strategies in resilience narratives and discuss a broad spectrum of interpretations and facets of resilience between resistance, regeneration, adaptation, and transformation.