We welcome all scholarly approaches to the study of autobiography, biography, life writing, diaries, letters, life narrative, online representations of identity and personal narrative in print and other media.
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Leigh A. Neithardt started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2021 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 8 months agoThe next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2021, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets in January 2021. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nominate at least one candidate who…[Read more]
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Janine M. Utell started the topic S340: The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 1 year, 5 months agoMelody Nixon will be unable to join us for S340: “The Space Between Creative Nonfiction and Literary Criticism: Theorizing, Writing, and Publishing Critical-Creative Hybrids” (Friday 3:30–4:45). She requests that those interested review her comments (attached) and consider her questions/prompts/provocations. Please join us in Sheraton Rav…[Read more]
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Megan Brown started the topic Call for Papers: “Un/Bound” Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 1 year, 8 months agoCall for Papers: “Un/Bound”
Special Issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
36.3 Autumn 2021
http://www.tandfonline.com/rautSubmissions Deadline: February 1, 2020
Memoirs and other auto/biographical genres that describe selfhoods at, on, or over borders have long been a subject of scholarly interest but have recently acquired greater urgency. Border cro…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Contingency, Staff, Anxious Pedagogy — and Love in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 1 year, 11 months agoThis essay explores the role of love, as defined by bell hooks, in pedagogy as well as how it plays into anxiety in our current moment.
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoRoutledge Auto/Biography Studies
Series Editor: Ricia Anne Chansky
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Palgrave Series in Life Writing in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months ago
Palgrave Studies in Life Writing Brant, C. (Ed), Saunders, M. (Ed) This series features books that address key concepts and subjects, with an emphasis on new and emergent approaches. It offers specialist but accessible studies of contemporary and historical topics, with a focus on connecting life writing to themes with cross-disciplinary appeal.…[Read more] -
Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Special Issue — The Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe Textualities of the Auto/biogrAfrical
Following the founding colloquium of the IABA Africa chapter in October 2017, this special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies will both explore and provisionally consolidate examples of contemporary scholarship on the varied forms of ‘auto/biogrAfrical’ life storying that emerge from (and in rel…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: International Auto/Biography Association Americas Conference – Jamaica in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoLives in Transition: Negotiating the Currents in a Changing World
The 4th Biennial Conference of the IABA Americas Chapter
The conference conveners invite papers that explore the means by which auto/biographical subjects explore lives ‘in transition’ and/or in the process of ‘transitioning.’ How do life narratives explore the kinds of adjustm…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFP: Women and Language in the discussion
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 7 months agoCall for Papers | Women & Language
Editor: Leland G. Spencer, PhD | Miami University
Women & Language, an international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal publishes original scholarly articles and creative work covering all aspects of communication, language, and gender. Contributions to Women & Language may be empirical,…[Read more]
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Shashi Bhusan Nayak started the topic Help Us Brainstorm in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 2 years, 11 months agoAs we at GS AutoFiction continue to expand our online initiatives, we’d like to hear from you about how we can best use this platform. Do you have ideas for posts relevant to the autofiction community and discipline? Who should we talk to? Do you want to guest post for us? Let us know!
1- What pressing issues in the field of Autofiction s…[Read more]
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Susanna Margaret Ashton deposited A Corrupt Medium: Stephen Burroughs and the Bridgehampton, New York, Library in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 4 months agoIn his eighteenth-century Memoirs, criminal Stephen Burroughs tells of his campaign to establish a library in Bridgehampton, New York. When the town elders discover the plan, they insist upon reviewing Burroughs’s choices. Undercurrents of other debates spill over into what would otherwise merely be some quibbling over book selections. In a series…[Read more]
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George Prokhorov deposited A MIXTURE OF PERFORMANCE AND NARRATIVITY, OR TRAVELOGUE AS A GENRE in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoIn the article, we trace some aspects of development of eventivity and narrativity in Medieval and early Modern Era travel literature. Dissecting episodes of Sir Thomas Smithes Voiage and Entertainment in Rushia (1605), A Travel of Anonimous Citizen of Suzdal to The Council of Florence (15th century), Russian Primary Chronicle (12th century), and…[Read more]
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Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 7 months agoDear Members of the Life Writing Group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCFP: POSTHUMAN LIVES
Deadline: October 15, 2017
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies seeks original articles for a special issue on “Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web” to be published as volume 34.3, Autumn 2019. A major theorist in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal stu…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers
Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging
The International Auto/Biography Association
Biennial World Conference: July 11-14, 2018
Universidade Federal de São João del-Rei, São João del-Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Co-conveners: Suely Quintana, Alberto Ferreira da Rocha, Junior, and Sergio da Silva Barcellos
The co-…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies Special Issue on Trans Narratives
“Trans” has taken on a number of important theoretical and critical meanings inside and outside the academy. A prefix with the sense in the OED of ‘across, through, over, to or on the other side of, beyond, outside of, from one place, person, thing, or state to anoth…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky posted an update in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 3 years, 11 months agoA little spoiler to get everyone excited for MLA 2018 in NYC:
The GS Forum in Life Writing panels are as follows:
Eminent Victorians at One Hundred; Thu Jan 4; 1:45-3:00 pm
Catfished: Lies Online; Fri Jan 5; 1:45-3:00 pm
New York Transit; Sat Jan 6; 12:00-1:15 pmAnd, an additional auto/biography studies panel:
#wethepeople; Thu Jan 4;…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited How to Make Love to a Negro: But What if I get Tired? Transculturation and its (Partial) Negation In and Through Translation in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoDany Laferrière’s first novel, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre was a literary sensation when it was first released in Quebec in the mid-80s. The author/narrator plays with reader’s expectations, presenting both a stereotypical image of the black man (sex-obsessed, white-hating) and one that contradicts and upsets their expectations. Influen…[Read more]
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Lee Skallerup Bessette deposited Dany Laferrière, Japanses Writer? Borderless Texts, Borderless Trauma in the group
GS Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 3 months agoAuthor Dany Laferrière, after a seven year hiatus from writing, produced the book Je suis un écrivain japonais (2008) [I am a Japanese Writer]. The title recalls statements he has frequently made in interviews about how much he hates being pigeon-holed by national or racial labels. The book itself is an examination of what (or who) defines s…[Read more]
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Ricia Anne Chansky started the topic CFPs for 2018 MLA GS Forum in Life Writing in the discussion
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 4 years, 5 months agoCatfished: Lies Online
How do platforms that facilitate sharing life narratives open doors to fake lives? This panel explores social media and other online spaces as means for constructing counterfeit lives: romantic, political, and otherwise.250 word abstracts and brief bios by March 15.
Contact: Ricia Anne Chansky (ricia.chansky@upr.edu) and…[Read more]
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