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AUTOBIOGRAPHY
LIFE-WRITING
REPRESENTING THE SELF

ASSOCIATIONS

• International Auto/Biography Association

CONFERENCES

2009:

2008:

2007:

2006:

• Controlling Time and Shaping the Self: the Rise of Autobiographical Writing since 1750, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, June 15-17
• Practical Identity and Narrative Agency, Macquarie University, March 30-April 1

2005:

• Narrative and Understanding Persons, Department of Philosophy, University of Hertfordshire, July 12-14

• Storytelling and Cultural Identity, Congresso Internacional de Narrativa Oral e de Identidade Cultural,  Terceira, Azores (Portugal), June 27-29

2004:

• Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti)Global Age, Fourth International Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association, Chinese University of Hong Kong, March 15-20

2003:

• Identity, Narrative, and Truth in Biography and Autobiography, Forum for European Philosophy, New Theatre, LSE East Building,  October 18

• Autobiografictions, Goldsmiths College, University of London, September 8-9

• Writing Lives: the Past and Future of Biography, Center for the Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center, April 10

• The Poetics of the Subject, Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches du Monde Anglophone, Université de Provence (Aix-Marseille I), March 28-29

2002:

2001:

2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• University of Arizona:
  • Autobiography I (Crane)
  • Autobiography II (Crane)
• University of Canterbury: Autobiography and the Representation of the Self
• University of East Anglia:
  • Autobiography (Hughes)
  • Biography (Hughes)
  • Life Writing: Theory into Practice (Hughes)

JOURNALS

• A/B: Auto/Biography Studies

• Biography

• Life Writing

PERSONS

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Epstein, William H., ed.  Contesting the Subject: Essays in the Postmodern Theory and Practice of Biography and Biographical Criticism.  Ashland, OH: Purdue UP, 1991
  • Olney, James, ed. Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
  • Zinzer, William, ed.  Inventing the Truth: the Art and Craft of Memoir.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995. 

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bruss, Elizabeth.  Autobiographical Acts: the Changing Situation of a Literary Genre.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1976.

  • Carroll, David.  The Subject in Question: the Languages of Theory and the Strategies of Fiction.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1982.

  • Cascardi, Anthony J.  The Subject of Modernity.  Cambridge: CUP, 1992.

  • Cascardi, Anthony J.  The Bounds of Reason: Cervantes, Dostoevsky, Flaubert.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

  • Corngold, Stanley.  The Fate of the Self: German Writers and French Theory.  New York: Columbia UP, 1986.

  • Donskis, Leonidas.  Forms of Hatred: the Troubled Imagination in Modern Philosophy and Literature.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003.

  • Eakin, Paul.  Touching the World.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1992.
  • Eakin, Paul.  Fictions in Autobiography: Studies in the Art of Self-Invention.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1985.

  • Freccero, John.  "Autobiography and Narrative."  Reconstructing Individualism: Autonomy, Individuality and the Self in Western Thought.  ed. Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellbery.  Stanford: Stanford UP, 1986.  16-29.

  • Gusdorf, Georges.  "Conditions and Limits of Autobiography."  Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical.  Ed. James Olney.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.  29-48.

  • Jay, Paul.  The Question of Being: Self-Representation from Wordsworth to Roland Barthes.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1984.

  • Kerby, A.  Narrative and the Self.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1991.

  • Lejeune, Philippe.  Le Pacte autobiographique.  Paris: Seuil, 1975.
    • On Autobiography.  Trans. Katherine Leary.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1989.
  • Lloyd, Genvieve.  Being in Time: Selves and Narrators in Philosophy and Literature.  London: Routledge, 1993.
  • Spacks, Patricia Meyer.  Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth Century England.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1976.
  • Sprinker, Michael.  "Fictions of the Self: the End of Autobiography."  Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical.  Ed. James Olney.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.  321-342.
  • Starobinskyi, Jean.  "The Style of Autobiography."  Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Practical.  Ed. James Olney.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.  73-83.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Hamilton, Nigel.  How to Do Biography.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2008.

On-Line:

• Hughes, Kathryn: The Death of Life Writing Guardian June 28, 2008

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Australasia:

• Curtin University of Technology: Life Writing Research Unit
• La Trobe University: Unit for Studies in Biography and Autobiography

Europe:

• UK:

  • University of East Anglia: MA in Life Writing

  • University of London, Queen Mary College: MA in Identity and Representation

USA:

• University of Hawaii, Manoa: Center for Biographical Research

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