Contributors
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Mary Besmeres is a Research Associate at the Australian National University. She is the author of Translating One’s Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2002) and a founding co-editor of Life Writing.
Floyd Cheung is Associate Professor of English and of American Studies at Smith College. He is the co-editor of Recovered Legacies: Authority and Identity in Early Asian American Literature (Temple UP, 2005) and the new edition of Kathleen Tamagawa’s Holy Prayers in a Horse’s Ear (Rutgers UP, 2008).
Jenny Coleman is a Senior Lecturer and Coordinator of the Women’s Studies program at Massey University, New Zealand. She teaches the history of feminism, textual analysis, and feminist research methodologies. She is author of Mad or Bad? The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock (Otago UP, 2010).
Kathy Comfort is an Associate Professor of French at the University of Arkansas. Her research interests include the nineteenth- and twentieth-century French novel and the interrelationship between literature and medicine. She has published articles on Honoré de Balzac, Emile Zola, André Gide, and Jean Giono, among others.
Julie A. Eckerle is an assistant professor of English literature at the University of Minnesota, Morris. She co-edited, with Michelle Dowd, Genre and Women’s Life Writing in Early Modern England and is currently working on a book on the influence of romance on early modern Englishwomen’s life writing.
Jacqueline Edmondson is Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Graduate studies in the College of Education at the Pennsylvania State University. Her faculty appointment is in Curriculum and Instruction (Language, Culture, and Society). Her research has been published in a number of academic journals and her books include biographies for adolescent readers. She is currently editing Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars and Stories that Shaped our Culture for ABC-CLIO.
Christina Houen is an adjunct research associate in social sciences at Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia. She is a life writer, [End Page 155] researcher, and editor, and is currently writing a biography of British single parents and their children who migrated to Western Australia post-World War II under the Fairbridge scheme.
Claire Lynch is a lecturer at Brunel University London, and author of Irish Autobiography (Peter Lang, 2009). Her current projects include a monograph on the representation of Irish identity in online forms of life writing (forthcoming from Palgrave) and a collaborative project to digitize the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography.
Susannah B. Mintz, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of the Department of English at Skidmore College, received an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and her Ph.D. from Rice University. She is the author of Threshold Poetics: Milton and Intersubjectivity (Delaware, 2003), and Unruly Bodies: Life Writing by Women with Disabilities (UNC Press, 2007), and has written extensively in the fields of autobiography and disability in literature. Her essay, “Vanishings,” was a finalist for the William Allen Nonfiction Prize and “The Dirty Little Secret of Sabbatical” was named a Notable Essay in the 2010 Best American Essays. Other creative work has appeared in such journals as Michigan Quarterly Review and Ninth Letter. She has recently completed a memoir, Hopeful Lane, and is currently at work on a study of literary representations of pain.
John O’Brien received his Ph.D. from the University of Leeds (UK) in 2009. He is currently working on a monograph about the relationship between autobiography and comedy, humor, and laughter in American culture. Other research interests include contemporary British and American fiction and the representation of risk society in European and American literature. Heteaches English at the International Language School, Frankfurt.
Sandra Pinasco has a B.A. in Hispanic literature and an M.A. in psychoanalytic theory. She currently works as Academic Coordinator in the Department of Humanities of the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya in Lima, Peru. Her areas of research are autobiographical studies, literary memoirs, and life writing in Latin America.
Arnaud Schmitt is an associate professor in the Department of Languages at the University of Bordeaux-Montesquieu. His areas of interest are postmodern fiction, narratology, and Pragmatism. His current research focuses on autobiographical novels...
