Contributors
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Mary Besemeres, a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, is the author of Translating One's Self: Language and Selfhood in Cross-Cultural Autobiography (2002) and is co-editor of Translating Lives: Living with Two Languages and Cultures (2007). She was founding co-editor of Life Writing.
Clare Brant is Professor in the English Department at King's College London, where she co-directs the Centre for Life-Writing Research. She is the author of Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture (2006), which won the ESSE Book Award for 2008; numerous articles; and various creative works, including Shadow Goes to a Gallery (2011)—a shaggy dog story as life writing.
Anastasia Christou is Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Convenor of the MA programme in Globalisation, Ethnicity and Culture at the University of Sussex, UK. She has expertise in social and cultural geography researching within critical perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural theory. She has widely published on issues of diasporas, migration, and return migration; the second generation and ethnicity; space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory; gender and feminism; home and belonging; and emotion and narrativity.
Micha Edlich is a PhD student in the American studies program at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. He is currently completing his dissertation on contemporary North American environmental life writing.
Rebecca L. Harrison is an Assistant Professor at the University of West Georgia, where she teaches courses in the modern Southern female aesthetic, American literature, captivity genre, and secondary education for English/Language Arts. A women's literature specialist, She has published on women writers such as Mary Dorcey and Beatrice Witte Ravenel. Her current research interests on captivity paradigms in the Southern female imaginary have garnered numerous grants, including a Southern Historical Collection Fellowship.
Kathryn Hughes is Professor of Life Writing at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK where she runs the MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction. Her most recent book is The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton. She writes fortnightly in the Guardian newspaper as well as in the TLS. [End Page 309]
Philippe Lejeune taught French Literature at Université Paris-Nord from 1970 to 2004. He works include L'Autobiographie en France (1971), Le Pacte autobiographique (1975), Je est un autre (1980), Moi aussi (1986), "Cher cahier . . ." (1990), Le Moi des demoiselles (1993), Les Brouillons de soiI (1998), "Cher écran . . ." (2000), Un journal à soi. Histoire d'une pratique, with Catherine Bogaert (2003), Signes de vie (2005). Selections from his works have been published in English: On Autobiography, ed. Paul John Eakin (1989) and On Diary, ed. Jeremy D. Popkin and Julie Rak (2009). In 1992 he co-founded APA (Association pour l'autobiographie), an archive devoted to unpublished autobiographical writings by ordinary people.
Claire Lynch is a Lecturer in English Literature at Brunel University. Her research on the Burnett Archive is connected to the multi-institutional UK digitization project AWW (Archive of Working Class Writing). Her publications include Irish Autobiography (2009), "Trans-Genre Confusion: What Does Autobiography Think It Is?" (Life Writing, ed. R. Bradford (2009), and "Who Do You Think You Are? Intimate Pasts Made Public" (Biography, 2011).
Mārtiņš Kaprāns is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Latvia and a researcher at The Advanced Social and Political Research Institute. He is the author of a number of articles on Soviet culture and society. His research interests include social representations of the communist past in the public discourses of post-communist societies. He is also interested in the relations between factual and fictional discourses.
Jeremy D. Popkin is T. Marshall Hahn, Jr., Professor of History at the University of Kentucky. His contributions to the field of autobiography studies include History, Historians and Autobiography (2005) and articles in Biography, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and several other journals. Together with Julie Rak, he edited On Diary, a volume of Philippe Lejeune's essays.
Ruth Richardson is a historian of medicine, author, and broadcaster. She is currently a Visiting Professor in Medical Humanities, Hong Kong University, and an Affiliated Scholar in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge. Her...
