Inside the black box: Modeling "Life Writing" for lifelong health and well being.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2018.02.002
Abstract: We articulate the lifespan theory of change by which an attachment-focused integrative reminiscence intervention, "Life Writing", is expected to interrupt the continuing problem of insecure attachment in adults and reverse associated reduced health and well-being… read more here.
Keywords: health well; black box; program; life ... See more keywords
feminist disability studies as methodology: life-writing and the abled/disabled binary
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DOI: 10.1057/s41305-017-0039-x
Abstract: abstractWhat does feminist disability studies contribute to feminist methods? Feminist disability scholars interweave life-writing about their experiences of disability or caring for a disabled person to challenge ableist stereotypes. As such, they foreground their own… read more here.
Keywords: disability studies; methodology; feminist disability; disability ... See more keywords
Teaching Fail: The Life-Writing Scholar's Cameo Appearance
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2017.1241519
Abstract: My colleague teaches an undergraduate elective subject on eighteenth-century English literature, with the themes of sex and satire. He wants to set a whore biography (which fits the theme of sex) and wonders whether I,… read more here.
Keywords: writing scholar; fail life; teaching fail; biography ... See more keywords
After Auto, after Bio: Posthumanism and Life Writing
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2017.1288038
Abstract: Critical posthumanism, as distinguished from popular posthumanism (see Simon), troubles virtually every tenet of autobiographical practice and criticism—the autonomous self, the pact between author and reader, the foregrounding of the human—in favor of focusing on… read more here.
Keywords: posthumanism; auto; life writing; life ... See more keywords
Linking Immigrant Women's Life Writing and Service Learning in a Women's and Gender Studies Classroom
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2018.1390044
Abstract: Intersections of gender, migration, and literature—specifically life writing— are a site of inquiry in my research and teaching. I am a German immigrant who came to the US on a student visa and changed her… read more here.
Keywords: immigrant women; service learning; service; women gender ... See more keywords
Concealing and Revealing: Life Writing at the Edges
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2019.1592374
Abstract: The 11th International Autobiography Association Conference, held at the Universidade Federal de S~ao Jo~ao del Rey, Minas Gerais, Brazil, in July 2018, focused on the conference theme, “Secret Lives: Hiding, Revealing, Belonging.” For many IABA… read more here.
Keywords: revealing life; concealing revealing; writing edges; life ... See more keywords
“Desperation for Life”: Writing Death in the Anthropocene
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2020.1722377
Abstract: A conservative analysis of extinctions of other-than-human species published in 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America estimates that “as much a... read more here.
Keywords: death anthropocene; writing death; desperation life; life writing ... See more keywords
Teaching Black Life Writing in the 2020 US Election Season and beyond
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2154439
Abstract: ... we create scholarship not simply for ourselves but for the unseen faces of people who depend on the unwavering commitment of scholars who take up justice work. We know that the ongoing work to… read more here.
Keywords: black life; life; teaching black; 2020 election ... See more keywords
Grasping the Scope of Individual Human Devastation in War: Life Writing’s Place in Mapping in the Classroom
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2022.2154442
Abstract: In Dr Katherine Roseau’s spring 2020 course on Nazi-occupied France, students learned to trace memory and experience by reading letters and diaries, identifying authors’ identity trajectories and creating visual narratives with ArcGIS StoryMaps. As a… read more here.
Keywords: war; identity; scope; life ... See more keywords
Forty Years of Life Writing Scholarly Brilliance
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DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2025.2494449
Abstract: Abstract This commentary reflects on the author’s first interactions with the editors of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies in 1991. From that experience, the author developed deep appreciation and admiration for the journal and all its editors. read more here.
Keywords: writing scholarly; forty years; life writing; years life ... See more keywords
Helen Keller’s ‘Sense of light’: life-writing, light-writing and the photosynthetic subject
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DOI: 10.1080/0950236x.2024.2379176
Abstract: ABSTRACT Contributors to Mere Light ask how ‘light’ falls in and through the non-visual medium of the literary text, illuminating that medium’s potential to initiate an experience of immediacy. While we might look to the… read more here.
Keywords: light writing; keller; sense; life writing ... See more keywords