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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Writing (from) the Rubble: Reflections on the August 4, 2020 Explosion in Beirut, Lebanon	13
No Cure: Illness through a Lebanese Arab Queer Lens	4
Avatars as the Raison d’Être of Autofiction	4
Testimony and its Mediations in Life Writing	4
Embodied Dread in Covid-19 Images and Narratives	4
Body Work: Diarising Self-Display and Risk	3
How to be a Fan in the Age of Problematic Faves	3
From Diaries to Data Doubles. Self-Tracking in Dutch Diaries (1780–1940)	3
Illnesses of Illusion and Disillusionment: From Euphoria to Aporia	3
The Tree of Love: Life Writing and ‘Seasons of Self’ by Former Child Soldiers in Colombia	3
Truman in Beirut: Journeying Through Fear and Immobility	2
‘Dear Diary, Dear Body’: Reading Embodied and Narrated Selves	2
Narrating the Imprisoned Body in Life Writing from the Kamioka POW Camp	2
Becoming a Settler Descendant: Critical Engagements with Inherited Family Narratives of Indigeneity, Agriculture and Land in a (Post)Colonial Context	2
‘In Our Daily Struggles’: Diaries as a Tool for Teacher Well-being	2
Family History and Life Writing	2
I Want to Become: My (Own) Reference List	2
Details Optional: An Account of Academic Promotion Relative to Opportunity	2
Autofiction, Emotions, and Humour: A Playfully Serious Affective Mode	2
From the Inside: Indigenous-Settler Reflections on the Family uses of the Thomas Dick ‘Birrpai’ Photographic Collection 1910–1920	2
In Parallel With My Actual Diary: On Re-writing an Exile	1
Narratives of Translators: The Translational Function of Prisoner Writing	1
The Selfless Ego I. Memory and Imagination in Tibetan Hagiographical Writing	1
Light-Writing and Photography’s Bodies of Memory	1
Authenticity and Gender: Public Responses to Great War Memoirs by Nurses and Frontline Soldiers in Britain, France and Germany	1

Domestic Listening Across Generations: Irene Oore’sThe Listener: In the Shadow of the Holocaust	1
‘The Synergy Between You’: Mothers, Nannies, and Collaborative Caregiving in Contemporary Matroethnographies	1
Survivor Memory and Rape Memoir: Chanel Miller’s Know My Name	1
The Poetics of the Hypercycle in Mircea Cărtărescu’s Solenoid	1
Autofiction and Testimony in Vigdis Hjorth’sWill and Testament	1
Interior Matter: Photography, Spaces, Selves	1
Interrogating the Ethics and Intentions of Family Life Writing Relating to the Holocaust	1
‘A Present for My Daughter’: Gender and Posterity in Victorian Inter-generational Life Writing	1
Autobiography as Archival Act: Reckoning with Personal and Political Pasts in They Called You Dambudzo and Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness	1
The Implied Rummager: Reading Intimate Interiors in Andy Warhol’sTime Capsules	1
Manthia Diawara’s Autoethnographic Forays in Memoir and Film from ‘Counter’ to ‘Strong’ to ‘Beyond’	1
Essays in Life Writing	1
Speculative Biography and Countering Archival Absences of Women Clowns in the Circus	1
Re-reading Immigrant Chinese Self-narratives in English (1980s to 1990s): A West–East Perspective of Philosophy and Literature	1
Assessing the Neoliberal Künstlerroman. ‘Creative’ Self-Realisation and the Art World in Michael Cunningham’s by Nightfall	1
Two Sides of a Coin: A Grief Memoir and its Readers	1
Letter Writing and Space for Women’s Self-expression in Janet Frame’sOwls Do Cryand Jane Campion’sAn Angel at My Table	1
From Landscape to Country: Writing Settler Belonging in Post-Mabo Australia	1
Gender Tensions, Taboos and Textual Acts in Melina Rorke’s Autofiction	1
Arriving on YouTube: Vlogs, Automedia and Autoethnography	1
Autoethnography and Beyond: Colonialism, Immigration, Embodiment, and Belonging	1
Media’s Domestication as Intimate Geography	1
Uncovering the Unwritten: A Paratextual Analysis of Autofiction	1
Searching for Moon Chow: A Joint Journey	1
Imperial Debris in Janet Frame's To the Is-Land (1982)	1
Bearers of the Past, Bridges with the Beyond: The Complicated Lives of Ordinary Objects	1
Circuits of Children’s Testimony: Reading Syrian Children’s Drawings of Home	1
Treading Warily into the Lives of Others	1