Life Writing's Uses and Abuses

Autobiographical texts have shaped understandings of nineteenth-century U.S. culture. How has this capacious genre proven illuminating? Generative? Misleading? Corrosive? Textually based theories and provocations welcome. Interventions inspired by any autobiographical form. 250-word abstracts, 250-word bios.

Deadline for submissions: Thursday, 20 March 2025

Koritha Mitchell, Boston U (kamitche@gmail.com )