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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia14
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness6
Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary5
Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing5
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel5
My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato4
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–19204
Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double4
Trans/national(ism) in Chinese Trans Memoir: Jin Xing’s Shanghai Tango and Lei Ming’s Life Beyond My Body3
Glamorous Healing and ‘Rebellious Hope’: Tracing Grief in Transmedial Cancer Life Writing3
Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood3
I Give Birth / I Lay Bare / I Dissolve: Experiments in Narrating Self-Loss in Recent Dutch-Language Birth Literature3
Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?2
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust2
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women2
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness2
Mapping Madness: A Reading of Figurative Language in Jay Griffiths’s Tristimania and Mike Barnes’s The Lily Pond2
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 2
Duty to Presence2
The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)2
Doctor Who? Reflecting Upon Regenerations of Educational Identity Utilising Autoethnography and the Method of Currere2
Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness2
‘I Hope You and Your Loved Ones Remain Safe’: Dispatch from a Teacher-Scholar-Life Writer in Wartime1
Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography1
My Family History: the Past and the Present1
Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing1
Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography1
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing1
Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance 1
Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis1
True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays1
Cries of ‘Fire!’: Narrating Deaths Across Borders in Tibetan Testimony1
Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)1
Preserving Personhood: Resisting Objectification While Dying and Managing the Ethics of Life Online After Death1
On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa1
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry1
Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues : An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics1
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives1
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them: An Eton College Memoir1
The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow1
The Museum of Failure1
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing1
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
Coercive Control in Queer Relationships: Reframing Gender and Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House1
Leo Ferrero and the Diary Dilemma1
Memoir and Respectable Femininity: Shirani A. Bandaranayake' s Hold Me in Contempt0
Experimental Life Writing—Special Issue Introduction0
Death Rehearsal0
Imperial and Religious Dependency in a Twelfth-Century Tibetan (Auto)Biography0
The Life and Death, and Life of William Mackay0
Trauma and Healing through Postgenerational Holodomor Survivor Research0
The Man in the Mirror: Reflections on Dementia Caregiving in Lebanon0
Individuality, Collectivity, and Pluralised Diasporic Chinese Identity in British Chinese Life Writing0
A History of African American Autobiography0
Light and Shadows: Self-Presentation of Panteleimon Kulish and Oleksandr Konyskyi through Their Diaries0
Zelda Popkin: The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Author0
The Light of Our Lives0
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
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
Authenticity and Gender: Public Responses to Great War Memoirs by Nurses and Frontline Soldiers in Britain, France and Germany0
The Protagonist Vanishes: A Dickensian Life-Writing Mystery0
Correction0
Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women’s Writing0
Yawmiyyāt al-Wāḥāt: Reading Precarity in the Prison Diaries of Sonallah Ibrahim (1962–1964)0
Reading (Like) a Translator: The Sensory Life and Travel Writing of Danish Literary Translator Anne Marie Bjerg0
Suicide in Nazi Germany: Transformative Family History0
Life Writing as Micropolitics: Prussian CVs at the Dawn of Bureaucratic Meritocracy0
Jhumpa Lahiri and the Translation Memoir: To Write and Exist Beyond the Mother Tongue0
Discerning the Autobiographical in English Court of Chancery Town Depositions0
Our Hearts are Restless: the Art of Spiritual Memoir0
Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused Metaphor in Illness Writing: Fight and Battle Reused , by Anita Wohlmann, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2020
Field Culture in Unprecedented Times: Writing the Unexpected, Narrating the Future at a Virtual Conference0
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
On Learning to Love Your Mother-in-law: RememberingLa Ménagein Colonial and Postcolonial Algeria0
Torn Bodies: Inner Conflicts of Surviving Composers0
Repeat the Important Words Until You Understand Them: Metaphor, Memory and Meaning in Anne Carson’s Essaying0
Patchwork Diaries and the Movement in Space0
Narrating Sexual Blackmail in Lebanon: A Present-Day Pathography0
Place and Social Anxiety in Xianfeng Yi and Ying Yang'sDoctor Zhang and Doctor Wang0
‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle0
Treading Warily into the Lives of Others0
Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing0
Claiming to Be Cosmopolitan: Alienation of the Colonised Self in Kuni Masami’s Autobiographies0
Lives in the Margins: Hester Piozzi’s Annotated Johnsoniana and Georgian Life Writing0
Biography across the Digitized Globe: Essays in Honour of Hans Renders0
The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet0
Unspoken: Experimental Life Writing and Child Narration0
The Photographer as Autobiographer0
‘She Loved This Place’: Memorial Benches as Death Writing, Life Writing and Life Siting0
These are War Stories : Therapeutic Citizenships and Brandon Stanton’s Humans of New York0
The Art of ‘Creatical Writing’: Unlocking Insights Through Creative-Critical Fusion0
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List0
Life-Story Narratives of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People as Sensory Autobiographies of Deafness0
Maternal Grief-Writing as Transformative Practice0
Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma0
Irish Women’s Confessional Writing: Identity, Textuality and the Body0
Memoir and the Aesthetics of Employability in Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius0
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
Affective Ambush: An Autotheoretical Approach to Understanding Emotions as Useful to the Research Process0
Narrating Captivity—Narrating Oneself: The Report of Filipp Efremov About His Coerced Mobility in Central Asia (1774–1782)0
Writing the Lives of Ordinary People—Opportunities and Challenges0
Life Writing and the Southern Hemisphere: Texts, Spaces, Resonances0
Writing Death: The Performative Purposes of Auto/Pathography in One Boy at War: My Life in the AIDS Underground0
From the Psychoanalytic Personal to Cold War Psychwar: Martha Graham’s Modern Dance, Jungian Archetypes, and Allen Dulles’ Central Intelligence Agency0
No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens0
Women and the Autobiographical Impulse: A History0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel0
Writing Against Erasure: Life Narratives as Biopolitical Resistance0
Playing Tennis in Beirut: Sisterhood and Transnational Aches0
Fantasy and Dissimulation in the Memoirs of Getzel Zelikovits (1855–1926)0
Wounded Poetry Hands: The Poetics of Agha Shahid Ali0
Writing Pretty: On Self-Cannibalism and Disfigured Tongues0
Theodor Adorno and Life Writing in the Anthropocene0
J. A. Vargas’s Transgressive Life in Exile0
Restorying Ageing: Amplifying Older Women’s Voices Through Creative Life Writing0
Wounded Scholar—Healing Witness0
Autobiographical Diary-Writing: Between Self-Fashioning and Historical Source in Grazia Pierantoni Mancini's Impressioni e Ricordi (1908)0
Threads of Memory: Lidia Beccaria Rolfi’s Ravensbrück Testimony0
‘I Am Not A Melodramatic Person’: Defining the Lyric Diary0
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller’s Know My Name0
‘A Stranger in the City’: Selfhood, Community and Modes of (Un)belonging in Muhammad Iqbal’s Self-Portraitures0
‘Runaway’ Ads as Records of Life Writing: Ariadne’s Story0
Our Bodies, Ourselves Translated into Brazilian Portuguese: A Study of the Impacts on the Translators0
Echoes of Li Sao : The Reinvention of Exile in Bei Dao’s Sidetracks0
Death at the Time of COVID-190
Scrambling (for) Time: Experimental Diaries and Feminised Work0
The Role of Serendipity and Collaboration in Adding Texture and Family Context to the Career of Australian Educator Renée Erdos (1911–1997)0
Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction0
‘The Words were Like a Charnel House’: Towards a Body of Postpartum Psychosis Life Writing0
‘To You, Who May Find Yourself in This Story’: What a Baker’s Memoir Taught an Emerging Education Scholar0
‘I Shall Know It Well Enough When I Feel It’: Sensing the Moment in Montaigne, Woolf and Borges0
Making a Narrative of Repetition: Diachronicity and the Second-Person Address in YouTube's Routine Videos0
American ‘Goddess of Mercy’ in the Nanjing Massacre: Minnie Vautrin and the Afterlife of Her Wartime Diary0
‘Expand’: From Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s by Noémie Grunenwald0
Writing Climate, Season and Cycle: Autobiographical Composting in Maggie MacKellar’s Eco-Autobiography, Graft0
Family Conscience: A Memoir of Four Generations0
Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013)0
Scriptotherapy: WW2 Shanghai Female Refugees’ Memoirs0
Depictions of the Enemy in Early Blue Division Accounts. The Writings of Martínez Esparza and Gómez Tello0
Not All That: Autoforms, Narcissism, and the Neoliberal Cultural Landscape0
The Book, the Camera, and the Concept of Dust in Life Writing by Patti Smith0
Narrating the Breakthrough: Spiritual Awakening, Mental Health and the Struggle for Meaning in New Age Memoirs0
Ta(l)king Back (to) the City—Fragments of Beirut and/in Me0
Short Diary Fiction: A New Global Anthology0
Enduring the ‘Face of the War’. Ernst Jünger’s Kriegstagebücher 1914–1918 Between Factualness and Stoicism0
Reflecting on Memory, Imagination and Place: Reading Janet Frame’s The Envoy from Mirror City Through a Cognitive Literary Lens0
Exercises in Loss by Agata Tuszyńska as a Poetic Rendition of the Untellable Experience of Co-Dying0
Co-writing, Cross-genesis, and Authorial Self-Fashioning in the Diaries of Catherine Pozzi and Paul Valéry0
‘From Impasse to Development’: Life Writing as a Reparation in Yang Benfen's I am Rich in Fragrance0
Embodied Emotion Work in Feminist Research: Crying, Running, Dancing, Loving0
Mathematics of Translation: Encounters with Literature’s Excess Interpretive Potential0
Reading Through Grief0
Belonging/s: An Object-led Reflection on Maternal Loss0
‘I’ve Just Always Hated It When Anyone Suffers Alone’: Neoliberal Exhaustion and Regenerative Form in Anne Boyer’s The Undying0
Love Letters as Testimony: An Estonian Case0
The Translation Memoir: An Introduction0
The Aesthetic of an Orphaned Memory: Journeying Across the ‘Lit-Up Stage’ of Hisham Matar's Siena0
Knausgård and the Autofictional Novel0
Hospital0
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks 1914–1916. Achieving Self-Knowledge Through the Experience of the Great War0
Nightshade Mother: A Disentangling0
Intercultural Mediation in the Translation of the Self in Travel Writing: A Case Study of Shark’s Fin and Sichuan Pepper0
Life as Prime Minister: A Genre Study of Speeches Made by Australian Prime Ministers Following Leadership Spills0
Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility0
You Don’t Know What War Is: Yeva Skalietska’s Diary as a Testimony and Counter-Narrative of Trauma in Conflict0
Life Writing 2.0: Joanna Walsh, Technology, and the Politics of Sharing0
On Witnessing, the Responsibility of Transmitting, and the Healing Powers of Creativity. An Interview with the Jewish-Argentine Artist Mirta Kupferminc0
An Autoethnographic Perspective on Scholarly Impact, Citation Politics, and North–South Power Dynamics0
Fleeing Father0
Alba de Céspedes’ Quaderno proibito : Intermedial Perspectives on a Diaristic Novel0
Scarred Skin and Wiggling Worms: What I Learned from my Eating Disorder0
Neutrality Affected: Negotiating the Promise of Empathy in Interpreters’ Memoirs0
Apophatic Theology at the Edge of Life Writing: A Reading of Gregory of Nyssa's The Life of Macrina0
Ghost Stories: On Writing Biography0
Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey0
A (Re)Construction of Self in Slavery, Freedom and Asymmetrical Dependency: The 1837 Autobiography of Samuel Crowther0
Rearranged: An Opera Singer’s Facial Cancer and Life Transposed0
Dialogic Reading Spaces in Autofiction: Rachel Cusk’s Kudos0
Family History and Life Writing0
The Eunuch and the Emperor: Social Ties and Selfhood in the Writings of Bakhtāwar Khān0
Hanif Kureishi: Writing the Self: A Biography0
Crossing the Bamboo Curtain: Occidentalism and the English Language in Cultural Revolution Memoirs0
Metaphor, Embodiment, Diary0
New York-letters : An Ode to New York, a Panegyric to Persia0
Be Right Back—The Promise and Perils of AI Resurrection: Ghosts, Hauntings, and Digital Necromancy as Speculative Automedia0
Couples: A Collective Life0
Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography Writing Life Writing: Narrative, History, Autobiography , by Paul John Eakin, foreword by Craig Howes, New York a0
Technologies of Automathographies: Mary Somerville and the Republic of Mathematics0
Artificial Intelligence in Textual Biographical Research: A Systematic Review of Methods, Effectiveness, and Epistemological Limits0
Drink the Sea: Twenty Years of Walking and Falling in Beirut0
On the Vulnerability of Memory and the Power of Storytelling, or How My Grandmothers Made Me a Historian0
Narrating the Edges of Life. Birth and Death in Amateur Memoirs from Small Mazovian Towns0
Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher0
(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency: An Introduction0
Deux étés (1997): The (Auto)fiction of the French Translation of Vladimir Nabokov’s Ada or Ardor (1969)0
What it Feels Like to Take Flight: My Grandmother as Travel Writer, Black Flâneuse and Writing Muse0
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Georg Henrik von Wright: An Unexpected Friendship0
Dissonant Discourses: Evelyn Scott and Cyril Kay-Scott’s Experiences in Brazil (1914–1919)0
The Versatile Vernacular Genre0
Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives From the Enlightenment to the Digital Age0
Rapport-Building and Meaning-Making in Collaborative Body Map Life Writing: A New Approach for Transference of Atomic Bomb Survivors’ Memories0
Writing the Self, Rewriting the Novel: Graham Greene and the Autofiction Turn0
Mother’s Day: Song of a Sad Mother0
The Writer’s Diary in the Twentieth Century: From Private to Literary. The Polish Case0
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
Japan, the Ambiguous, and My Fragile, Complex and Evolving Self0
Wandering from China to America: A Life Straddling Different Worlds0
Construction of an Artistic Self: Sophie Gaudier-Brzeska’s Poetry Notebooks and Journal0
Historiography and the Self: Functions of Writing in Victor Klemperer's Third Reich Diaries0
Theorising Lebano-Pathography: A Biographical Exploration of Medical-Cultural Pathologies0
Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography0
Memoir as a Herstory Narrative: Fethiye Çetin’s My Grandmother and Azar Nafisi’s Things I’ve Been Silent About0
Between the Personal and the History: Writing a Biography in the First Person0
My Diary Diary0
The Relational Self: Maternal Inheritance and Eurasian Identity in Han Suyin’sThe Crippled Tree0
Writing Disability and Breaking Language: A Collaborative Essay0
The Time Was Now: Paranormal Non-fiction and Hauntological Metalepsis in Nick Redfern’s The Man-Monkey: The Search for the British Bigfoot0
The Poetics of Memory in Contemporary Spanish Poetry: Antonio Machado, Luis Cernuda and Jaime Gil de Biedma0
Reading Autobiography Now. An Updated Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives0
Life Writing and the End of Empire: Homecoming in Autobiographical Narratives0
Correction0
Twentieth-century diaries: echoes of identity0
Berries of the Lost Garden: Narrating the Life and Legacy of an Iconic Architect0
Image of a Man: The Journal of Keith Vaughan0
Kinship in Darkness: On the Humanities’ Intrinsic Potential to Foster Post-Traumatic Healing0
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