Life Writing

Papers
(The TQCC of Life Writing is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness9
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–19206
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia5
Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing5
Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’5
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel5
Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary4
Historical Fiction and the Breton Landscape: Writing the Life of Jeanne de Belleville3
My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato3
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust3
Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood3
Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness3
Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double3
Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?2
The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)2
Trans/national(ism) in Chinese Trans Memoir: Jin Xing’s Shanghai Tango and Lei Ming’s Life Beyond My Body2
Duty to Presence2
Doctor Who? Reflecting Upon Regenerations of Educational Identity Utilising Autoethnography and the Method of Currere2
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness2
‘Dear Diary, Dear Body’: Reading Embodied and Narrated Selves1
Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance 1
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry , by Tamarin Norwood, London, The Ind1
Wilhelm Joest, Early German Ethnography and Contemporary Approaches to Writing the Life of an Imperial Actor: An Interview with Wilhelm Joest’s Biographer Anne Haeming1
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives1
Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing1
Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice Lives Beyond Borders: US Immigrant Women’s Life Writing, Nationality and Social Justice 1
On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa1
The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow1
The Museum of Failure1
My Family History: the Past and the Present1
‘I Hope You and Your Loved Ones Remain Safe’: Dispatch from a Teacher-Scholar-Life Writer in Wartime1
Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography1
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing1
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women1
Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)1
Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues : An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics1
Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis1
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing1
Becoming a Settler Descendant: Critical Engagements with Inherited Family Narratives of Indigeneity, Agriculture and Land in a (Post)Colonial Context0
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode0
No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens0
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Georg Henrik von Wright: An Unexpected Friendship0
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them: An Eton College Memoir0
Scarred Skin and Wiggling Worms: What I Learned from my Eating Disorder0
Image of a Man: The Journal of Keith Vaughan0
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller’s Know My Name0
Writing Disability and Breaking Language: A Collaborative Essay0
Echolation as Modulation: A Case Study of Chus Pato and Erín Moure’s Secession/Insecession , Accompanied by a Fan Fiction of Moure’s Work More Generally0
The Photographer as Autobiographer0
Family History and Life Writing0
Couples: A Collective Life0
Correction0
Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography0
Spectator Curator: An Autoethnographic Tour of a Latinx in Canada0
Emptying the Attic: The Family Archive in Transition0
Death Rehearsal0
On Being Impossible: Thoughts on Ethnicity, Embodiment and Kinship0
Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene0
Trauma and Healing through Postgenerational Holodomor Survivor Research0
Repeat the Important Words Until You Understand Them: Metaphor, Memory and Meaning in Anne Carson’s Essaying0
Scrambling (for) Time: Experimental Diaries and Feminised Work0
Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel0
The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon0
Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed0
From Diaries to Data Doubles. Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780–1940)0
Resistance and Desire: Autofictional Satire and Intersubjectivity in Samuel Shem’sThe House of God0
Narrating Captivity—Narrating Oneself: The Report of Filipp Efremov About His Coerced Mobility in Central Asia (1774–1782)0
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body0
The Eunuch and the Emperor: Social Ties and Selfhood in the Writings of Bakhtāwar Khān0
‘I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary0
On Learning to Love Your Mother-in-law: RememberingLa Ménagein Colonial and Postcolonial Algeria0
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary0
Mathematics of Translation: Encounters with Literature’s Excess Interpretive Potential0
Treading Warily into the Lives of Others0
Dissonant Discourses: Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott’s Experiences in Brazil (1914–1919)0
Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Occidentalism and the English Language in Cultural Revolution Memoirs0
Reading Objects, Watching YouTube, Writing Biography, and Teaching Life Writing: Student Engagement When Learning Online During Covid-190
The Life and Death, and Life of William Mackay0
Strangers in a Strange Land: Jewish Memories of Istanbul in the Memoirs of Roni Margulies0
Writing Pretty: On Self-Cannibalism and Disfigured Tongues0
Discerning the Autobiographical in English Court of Chancery Town Depositions0
Kinship in Darkness: On the Humanities’ Intrinsic Potential to Foster Post-Traumatic Healing0
‘Runaway’ Ads as Records of Life Writing: Ariadne’s Story0
An Autoethnographic Perspective on Scholarly Impact, Citation Politics, and North–South Power Dynamics0
Editorial Note0
Jhumpa Lahiri and the Translation Memoir: To Write and Exist Beyond the Mother Tongue0
(Re)collecting Myself in Arabic and English: Personal Reflections on Literature, Place, and Identity0
Narrative Agency at the Interface of Embodiment and Emotions: The North-American Epistolary Diary of Barbara Bodichon0
The Role of Serendipity and Collaboration in Adding Texture and Family Context to the Career of Australian Educator Renée Erdos (1911–1997)0
Neutrality Affected: Negotiating the Promise of Empathy in Interpreters’ Memoirs0
The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet0
The Ridiculous Legend of El Gran Vázquez: Self-deprecation and Picaresque in the Autofictional Comics by Vázquez0
Between the Personal and the History: Writing a Biography in the First Person0
Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography0
As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969 As Told by Herself: Women’s Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969 , by Lorna Martens, Madison, The University0
Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age0
Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography0
Arriving on YouTube: Vlogs, Automedia and Autoethnography0
Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography0
Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos0
Disability and Life Writing in Post-Independence Ireland0
Suicide in Nazi Germany: Transformative Family History0
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction0
Torn Bodies: Inner Conflicts of Surviving Composers0
Embracing the ‘Good-enough’—Teaching, Learning, Living During the COVID-19 Lockdown0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel0
‘Who does he think he is: Jesus?’ J. M. Coetzee's Last Confession in Summertime0
The Oxford History of Life Writing Vol VII: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020 The Oxford History of Life Writing Vol VII: Postwar to Contemporary, 1945–2020 , by Patric0
Domestic Listening Across Generations: Irene Oore’sThe Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust0
Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma0
‘The Synergy Between You’: Mothers, Nannies, and Collaborative Caregiving in Contemporary Matroethnographies0
Narrating the Imprisoned Body in Life Writing from the Kamioka POW Camp0
Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process0
Deux étés (1997): The (Auto)fiction of the French Translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor (1969)0
Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing0
Two Sides of a Coin: A Grief Memoir and its Readers0
The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’sThe Crippled Tree0
Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey0
Echoes of Li Sao : The Reinvention of Exile in Bei Dao’s Sidetracks0
Intercultural Mediation in the Translation of the Self in Travel Writing: A Case Study of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper0
Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013)0
Berries of the Lost Garden: Narrating the Life and Legacy of an Iconic Architect0
Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies0
Gender, Trauma and Power in China Keitetsi’sLa petite fille à la Kalachnikov: Ma vie d’enfant soldat0
Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography , by Paul John Eakin, foreword by Craig Howes, New York a0
Our Hearts are Restless: the Art of Spiritual Memoir0
From the Psychoanalytic Personal to Cold War Psychwar: Martha Graham’s Modern Dance, Jungian Archetypes, and Allen Dulles’ Central Intelligence Agency0
Body Work: Diarising Self-Display and Risk0
Autoethnography and Beyond: Genealogy, Memory, Media, Witness0
Katherine May’s Wintering and the Care of the Self0
Wounded Scholar—Healing Witness0
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History0
Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali0
The Tiger Skin on the Bannister (and Other Stories): Internal Dialogues and Parallel Autobiographical Process in a Reading of Wilfred Bion’s The Long Weekend, 1897–1919: Part of a Life0
Experimental Life Writing—Special Issue Introduction0
‘I Shall Know It Well Enough When I Feel It’: Sensing the Moment in Montaigne, Woolf and Borges0
Japan, the Ambiguous, and My Fragile, Complex and Evolving Self0
Where the Centres Line Up: Finding Myself in the Fabric of the Highlands0
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography0
Reading, Race, and Remembering Childhood Abuse—Returning to Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)0
Correction0
How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying How I Lost My Mother: A Story of Life, Care and Dying , by Leslie Swartz, Johannesburg, Wits University Press, 20210
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused , by Anita Wohlmann, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020
On the Vulnerability of Memory and the Power of Storytelling, or How My Grandmothers Made Me a Historian0
On Witnessing, the Responsibility of Transmitting, and the Healing Powers of Creativity. An Interview with the Jewish-Argentine Artist Mirta Kupferminc0
Materialising the Decolonising Autobiography0
‘She Loved This Place’: Memorial Benches as Death Writing, Life Writing and Life Siting0
Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Author0
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List0
Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling0
Not All That: Autoforms, Narcissism, and the Neoliberal Cultural Landscape0
A History of African American Autobiography0
True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays0
Narratives of Translators: The Translational Function of Prisoner Writing0
Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility0
Scriptotherapy: WW2 Shanghai Female Refugees’ Memoirs0
Embodied Dread in Covid-19 Images and Narratives0
A (Re)Construction of Self in Slavery, Freedom and Asymmetrical Dependency: The 1837 Autobiography of Samuel Crowther0
Life Writing 2.0: Joanna Walsh, Technology, and the Politics of Sharing0
Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference0
(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency: An Introduction0
Writing Ourselves into Time: Stories of Indo-Trinidadian Women0
Life Writing as Micropolitics: Prussian CVs at the Dawn of Bureaucratic Meritocracy0
Memoir and Respectable Femininity: Shirani A. Bandaranayake' s Hold Me in Contempt0
James Joyce’s Dubliners and Nataliia Kobrynska’s Galicians: Concurrences, Mirrorings and Differences0
Making a Narrative of Repetition: Diachronicity and the Second-Person Address in YouTube's Routine Videos0
Authenticity and Gender: Public Responses to Great War Memoirs by Nurses and Frontline Soldiers in Britain, France and Germany0
The Aesthetic of an Orphaned Memory: Journeying Across the ‘Lit-Up Stage’ of Hisham Matar's Siena0
Details Optional: An Account of Academic Promotion Relative to Opportunity0
Hip Hop, La Crónica and Epiphany in Mexico City: Performative Research, Methodological Identities and Affective Analysis0
‘To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar0
‘A Present for My Daughter’: Gender and Posterity in Victorian Inter-generational Life Writing0
‘A Stranger in the City’: Selfhood, Community and Modes of (Un)belonging in Muhammad Iqbal’s Self-Portraitures0
These are War Stories : Therapeutic Citizenships and Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York0
Our Bodies, Ourselves Translated into Brazilian Portuguese: A Study of the Impacts on the Translators0
Fleeing Father0
Establishing Narrative Voice and Encountering the ‘I’ Through Identity Creation in Life Writing0
‘An Awakening of the Senses’: Reading Julia Child's My Life in France as Gastrography0
Drink the Sea: Twenty Years of Walking and Falling in Beirut0
My Diary Diary0
Life as Prime Minister: A Genre Study of Speeches Made by Australian Prime Ministers Following Leadership Spills0
Reading Autobiography Now. An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives0
The Language of Food: Semiotics in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Gastrographies0
Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)0
Ta(l)king Back (to) the City—Fragments of Beirut and/in Me0
Place and Social Anxiety in Xianfeng Yi and Ying Yang'sDoctor Zhang and Doctor Wang0
‘Expand’: From Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s by Noémie Grunenwald0
‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle0
New York-letters : An Ode to New York, a Panegyric to Persia0
Playing Tennis in Beirut: Sisterhood and Transnational Aches0
The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’: Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion0
The Book, the Camera, and the Concept of Dust in Life Writing by Patti Smith0
Bitter/Love: A Mixed-Race Body Archive0
Journalling in the Currents of Yin and Yang: Adrift in the Chinese Academic Job Market0
Unspoken: Experimental Life Writing and Child Narration0
Reading (Like) a Translator: The Sensory Life and Travel Writing of Danish Literary Translator Anne Marie Bjerg0
Writing the Lives of Ordinary People—Opportunities and Challenges0
Autoethnography and Beyond: Colonialism, Immigration, Embodiment, and Belonging0
Imperial and Religious Dependency in a Twelfth-Century Tibetan (Auto)Biography0
The Translation Memoir: An Introduction0
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