Contributors
- Contributors
Marta Bladek is an associate professor at the Lloyd Sealy Library of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York. Her research interests include the interplay of place and memory in contemporary life narratives, Eastern European women's memoirs, and Russian American literature.
Monika Browarczyk is an associate professor of South Asian studies with a focus on Hindi literature at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. She has been at Adam Mickiewicz University since 1999. She taught at Delhi University under the government cultural exchange program from 2005 to 2008 and was awarded a Fulbright senior research grant at the University of Texas, Austin, from 2012 to 2013. In cooperation with Maria Puri, she translated selected poems of Adam Zagajewski (Sahitya Akademi, 2011) and Andrzej Stasiuk's Tales of Galicia from Polish into Hindi (Rajkamal Prakashan, 2014). She edited and cotranslated from Hindi into Polish a volume of selected poems by Harivansh Rai Bacchan (Namas, 2013). She is currently conducting research on Hindi autobiographies by women.
Andrew Crislip is an associate professor and Blake Chair in the History of Christianity in the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.
Meliz Ergin is an assistant professor of comparative literature at Koç University, Istanbul. Her research areas include modern Turkish and European literature, literature and philosophy, and ecocriticism. Her articles have been published in Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, The Italianist, Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, Europe and Its Others, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment. Her book, The Ecopoetics of Entanglement in Contemporary Turkish and American Literatures, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan. [End Page 396]
Sam Ferguson completed a doctorate at the University of Oxford on "Diaries Real and Fictional in Twentieth-Century French Writing." He is currently a Junior Research Fellow at Oxford, specializing in diaries in French literature and the work of André Gide and Roland Barthes.
Sanaz Fotouhi is a writer, scholar, and filmmaker interested in diasporic writing and issues. Her book, The Literature of the Iranian Diaspora: Meaning and Identity Since the Islamic Revolution (IB Tauris, 2015), is one of the first book-length studies of the body of Iranian writing in English. As a writer, Sanaz has published in Australian and international anthologies and journals. Her work appears in The Guardian UK, The Jakarta Post, as well as The Griffith Review and Southerly. The documentary she coproduced in Afghanistan, Love Marriage in Kabul, has been the recipient of numerous awards and shortlisted for the prestigious Australian Walkely Awards. Currently, Sanaz is the director of the literary network Asia Pacific Writers and Translators.
Marianne Hirsch is the William Peterfield Trent professor of comparative literature and gender studies at Columbia University. Hirsch's work combines feminist theory with memory studies, particularly the transmission of memories of violence across generations. Her recent books include The Generation of Postmemory: Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust (Columbia UP, 2012), Ghosts of Home: The Afterlife of Czernowitz in Jewish Memory, coauthored with Leo Spitzer (U of California P, 2010), Rites of Return: Diaspora, Poetics and the Politics of Memory, coedited with Nancy K. Miller (Columbia UP, 2011). With Diana Taylor she coedited the Summer 2012 issue of é-misferica on "The Subject of Archives." She is currently at work on a coauthored book with Leo Spitzer titled School Photos in Liquid Time: Archives of Possibility and on a series of essays on the future of memory.
Jesse Hutchison is a PhD graduate from the University of Waterloo's English language and literature department. His dissertation, "Private People in Public Places: Contemporary Canadian Mennonite Life Writing," considers the various ways that Canadian Mennonite authors use autobiographical writing to highlight the significance of history, family, and community. His recent research considers the role of epigenetic memory in life writing. [End Page 397]
Laura E. Lyons is a professor of English and the Interim Dean of the College of Languages, Linguistics & Literature at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. With Cynthia Franklin, she coedited the 2004 special issue of Biography titled Personal Effects: The Testimonial Uses of Life Writing, and a number of articles on life writing and human rights. In 2010...
