Contributors
- Contributors
Paul Longley Arthur is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. He was previously Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography at the Australian National University.
danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, the founder of Data & Society, and the author of It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale UP, 2014). She blogs at Apophenia: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts and on Twitter @zephoria.
Kylie Cardell is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University. She is the author of Dear World: Contemporary Uses of the Diary (U of Wisconsin P, 2014) and editor (with Kate Douglas) of Telling Tales: Autobiographies of Childhood and Youth (Routledge, 2015).
David Clark is a media artist who teaches at NSCAD University in Halifax, Canada.
Pamela Graham is a PhD candidate and tutor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University in South Australia. Her research interests include innovative biographical practice, cultural memory, and public history.
Diana Josefowicz has taught writing at Boston University and Columbia University, where she was University Writing Fellow while earning an MFA in fiction. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications, and she is the author, with Jed Z. Buchwald, of The Zodiac of Paris (Princeton UP, 2010), a study of scientific controversy in nineteenth-century France.
John B. Killoran is an Associate Professor of English at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus. His research focuses mainly on our professional uses of the Web and is published in such journals as Technical Communication, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, and the Journal of Technical Writing and Communication.
Andreas Kitzmann is an Associate Professor in the department of Humanities at York University. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from [End Page 321] McGill University, and has written widely on the impact of communications technology on the construction and practice of identity, memory, electronic communities, and the influence of new media on narrative conventions.
Patricia G. Lange is an Anthropologist and Assistant Professor of Critical Studies at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, California. Her work focuses on technical identity performance, mediated communication, new media studies, and use of digital video to express the self and accomplish civic engagement. In addition to her book Kids on YouTube: Technical Identities and Digital Literacies (Left Coast, 2014), her work has been widely published in numerous journals including the Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Visual Communication, Anthropology of Work Review, Games & Culture, Discourse Studies, Enculturation, and Human Organization. For more information see www.patriciaglange.org.
Emma Maguire is a PhD Candidate in English Literature at Flinders University, where she is completing her doctoral thesis, titled “Automedial Girlhoods: Reading Girls’ Autobiographical Practice in Digital Contexts.” Her project investigates the autobiographical strategies employed by girls in online texts such as blogs, vlogs, and websites in order to examine how gender, youth, and mediation converge to produce girlhood subjectivities. Emma is interested in autobiography, pop culture, digital media, and gender. You can find out more about her work at emmamaguire.wordpress.com.
Laurie McNeill is an Instructor I (tenure track) in the Department of English, and Acting Chair of First Year Programs, Arts at the University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research focus on the social actions of auto/biography, particularly digital life narratives. Her most recent publications appear in Biography (2012), and Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves (Wisconsin UP 2014). Her article on teaching testimony and the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission is forthcoming in A/B: Auto/Biography Studies in 2016.
Molly Pulda, a 2013–2015 Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities at the University of Southern California, currently teaches at Brooklyn College. She has published articles in A/B: Auto/Biographical Studies, Contemporary Women’s Writing, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Her article “Unknown Knowns: State Secrets and Family Secrets” appeared in Biography 35.3 (Summer 2012). [End Page 322]
Julie Rak is a Professor and the Associate Chair of Graduate Studies in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of...
