OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Life Writing is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia	14
Head Above Water: Reflections on Illness	7
Witnessing Con/Text(s) and Narrativizing Subjectivities: Rhetorical Questions in Atef Abu Saif’s The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary	6
Radical Realism, Autofictional Narratives and the Reinvention of the Novel	5
Individualism, Collectivism, and Identity Politics in Palestinian Life Writing	5
I Give Birth / I Lay Bare / I Dissolve: Experiments in Narrating Self-Loss in Recent Dutch-Language Birth Literature	4
Duping Someone Else’s Body: Life Story of a Body Double	4
Glamorous Healing and ‘Rebellious Hope’: Tracing Grief in Transmedial Cancer Life Writing	4
My Mothers, My Others: A Conversation about a Hot Potato	4
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–1920	4
Trans/national(ism) in Chinese Trans Memoir: Jin Xing’s Shanghai Tango and Lei Ming’s Life Beyond My Body	3
Sickness of Separation: Reflections on Expatriation, Repatriation, and Motherhood	3
Duty to Presence	3
The Protocols of Dependency in Frederick Douglass’ My Bondage and My Freedom (1855)	3
Reading and Seeing Women’s Life Writing Through Adrienne Rich in Alison Bechdel’s Are You My Mother?	3
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	3
No Longer a ‘Guy’, But a ‘Flaming-Hot Mess of a Queen’: The Role of Language in Contemporary Nonbinary Autobiographical Life Writing	2
Writing the Hearing Line: Telling Family Stories of Deafness	2
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
Preserving Personhood: Resisting Objectification While Dying and Managing the Ethics of Life Online After Death	2
The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women	2
Mapping Madness: A Reading of Figurative Language in Jay Griffiths’s Tristimania and Mike Barnes’s The Lily Pond	2
Ghost Plants: The Possibilities of Botanical Ecobiography	2
On the Memory of Birds: A Meditation on Memory and Mourning AIDS Deaths in South Africa	2
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust	2

Doctor Who? Reflecting Upon Regenerations of Educational Identity Utilising Autoethnography and the Method of Currere	2
Wilhelm Joest, Early German Ethnography and Contemporary Approaches to Writing the Life of an Imperial Actor: An Interview with Wilhelm Joest’s Biographer Anne Haeming	1
The Myth of ‘Wound’ Writing: The Multiple Surfaces of Jessica Au’s Cold Enough for Snow	1
The Song of the Whole Wide World: On Grief, Motherhood and Poetry	1
‘I’ve Just Always Hated It When Anyone Suffers Alone’: Neoliberal Exhaustion and Regenerative Form in Anne Boyer’s The Undying	1
(In)Dependent Selves: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Life Writing, Slavery and Dependency: An Introduction	1
Memoir and the Aesthetics of Employability in Dave Eggers’ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius	1
The Objects of Family History: Eliza Bennett's Straw Wedding Bonnet	1
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List	1
Leo Ferrero and the Diary Dilemma	1
Handling Hazardous Biographical Materials: Dealing with Questionable Character Traits through Poetic Biography	1
Crowd Coaxing and Citizen Storytelling in Archives of Crisis	1
Inhospitable Conditions: Hospitality, Kinship and Complaint in Maureen Freely's Angry in Piraeus and Mireille Gansel's Translation as Transhumance	1
Community, Self and Dependency: Enslaved Voices in Moravian Lebensläufe (1747–1820)	1
Becoming Simple and Honest: Nietzsche’s Practice of Spontaneous Life Writing	1
The Politics of Shame in Musa Okwonga’s One of Them: An Eton College Memoir	1
Discerning the Autobiographical in English Court of Chancery Town Depositions	1
Torn Bodies: Inner Conflicts of Surviving Composers	1
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, 2021	1
Metabiography: Reflecting on Biography	1
Coercive Control in Queer Relationships: Reframing Gender and Violence in Carmen Maria Machado’s In the Dream House	1
‘I Hope You and Your Loved Ones Remain Safe’: Dispatch from a Teacher-Scholar-Life Writer in Wartime	1
Traversing the (In)Visible Territory of Schizophrenia in HOAX Psychosis Blues : An Intersection of Life Writing and Graphic Medicine in Comics	1
My Family History: the Past and the Present	1
The Museum of Failure	1
True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays	1
Co-writing, Cross-genesis, and Authorial Self-Fashioning in the Diaries of Catherine Pozzi and Paul Valéry	1
‘I Shall Know It Well Enough When I Feel It’: Sensing the Moment in Montaigne, Woolf and Borges	1
‘Honesty of that Order Threatens Order’: The Autofiction of Chris Kraus, Annie Ernaux, and Sophie Calle	1
Enduring Places and Excavating Memories: Biographical Narratives of Delhi in Malvika Singh’s Perpetual City (2013)	1
Writing Disability and Breaking Language: A Collaborative Essay	1
Pulling out the Most Colourful Threads: Revealing and Weaving Positionality into Collaborative Life Writing	1
Narrating the Breakthrough: Spiritual Awakening, Mental Health and the Struggle for Meaning in New Age Memoirs	1
Journeys of Transformation: Searching for No-Self in Western Buddhist Travel Narratives	1
Cries of ‘Fire!’: Narrating Deaths Across Borders in Tibetan Testimony	1