Contributors
- Contributors
Alana Bell is a Toronto independent scholar, editor, and teacher. She has a PhD in English with a focus in life writing theory from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and was a contributing reviewer to Biography’s Reviewed Elsewhere for several years.
Michael A. Chaney is the author of Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative (Indiana UP, 2008), the editor of Graphic Subjects: Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels (U of Wisconsin P, 2010), and, more recently, author of Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel (forthcoming from UP of Mississippi, 2017). His essays have appeared in or are forthcoming from Arizona Quarterly, American Literature, Callaloo, ESQ, and College Literature. He is an associate professor of English at Dartmouth College as well as the Chair of the African and African American Studies Program.
Sergio da Silva Barcellos is an independent scholar from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received his Master and PhD degrees in literary studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in 2004 and 2009, respectively. He teaches an annual seminar on diary studies at the Rio de Janeiro State University.
Cláudia Faria is a narrative researcher based on Madeira Island, Portugal. In 2008 she published a book on the Phelps family. Her main interests are life writing and travel literature. She is a member of project Memória das Gentes que fazem a História, CEHA, and also a member of CETAPS Lisbon (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).
Sam Ferguson is a junior research fellow in French literature at Christ Church, University of Oxford. His work concerns the diary in French writing, particularly in the twentieth century. He has published articles on works by André Gide, Raymond Queneau, and Roland Barthes. [End Page 839]
Leigh Gilmore is the author of Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives (Columbia UP, 2017), The Limits of Autobiography: Trauma and Testimony (Cornell UP, 2001), Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Autobiography (Cornell UP, 1994), and coeditor of Autobiography and Postmodernism (U of Massachusetts P, 1994). Her articles on feminist theory, autobiography, contemporary literature, and literary and legal testimony appear in Feminist Studies, Signs, Women’s Studies Quarterly, Law & Literature, American Imago, Journal of the History of Sexuality, Prose Studies, Profession, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Biography, and in numerous collections. She was a Dorothy Cruickshank Backstrand Chair of Gender and Women’s Studies at Scripps College, professor of English at the Ohio State University, and has held visiting appointments at Brown University, Harvard Divinity School, Northeastern University, University of California, Santa Cruz, and University of California, Berkeley. She is currently a distinguished visiting professor of women’s and gender studies at Wellesley College.
Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Iceland. She has published widely on contemporary life writing and memory studies, including her two books, Borderlines: Autobiography and Fiction in Postmodern Life Writing (Rodopi, 2003) and Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Wilhelm Hemecker is the director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for the History and Theory of Biogaphy. He is a professor in the Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies at the University of Vienna. He has published monographs on Freud, Rilke, and Mechtilde Lichnowsky.
Sarah Jamal is a PhD candidate at Aberystwyth University in the Department of International Politics. Sarah’s research is based on the separation wall in the West Bank, Palestine, and focuses on the politics of surfaces and contemporary Palestinian art.
Dalia Judovitz is a National Endowment for the Humanities professor in the Department of French and Italian at Emory University. She has published extensively on questions of subjectivity and representation in philosophy, art, and literature, including Subjectivity and Representation in Descartes: The Origins of Modernity (Cambridge UP, 1988); Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit (U of California P, 1995); The Culture of the Body: Genealogies of Modernity (U of Michigan P, 2001); and Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company (U of Minnesota P, 2010). [End Page 840]
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki, PhD, is an adjunct...
