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Graphic Medicine
A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Guest Editors: Erin La Cour (Free University of Amsterdam) and Anna Poletti (Utrecht University
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RELEASE OF BIOGRAPHY 42.1
We’re happy to announce the publication of the latest issue of Biography, vol. 42, no. 1, 2019 with our International Year in Review and Annual Bibliography. Check out the new journal design.
The full issue is available on Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40486
Table of Contents
Editors’ Notes
John David Zuern and Craig Howes
Essays as Life Writing: The Year in Australia
Kylie Cardell
The Tercentenary of Maria Theresa (1717–1780): The Year in Austria and Germany
Tobias Heinrich
The Brazilian “I/Eye” at the IABA Global Conference: The Year in Brazil
Sergio da Silva Barcellos
Musicians’ Lives and National Identity: The Year in Canada
Alana Bell
Independent Biographical Documentaries: The Year in China
Chen Shen
Testigo de barbarie y resistencia: El año en Colombia
Gabriel Jaime Murillo-Arango
Life Writing’s Coming of Age: The Year in Estonia
Leena Kurvet-Käosaar and Maarja Hollo
The Ghosts of World War II: The Year in France
Joanny Moulin
Selves and Identities in the Arabian Gulf: The Year in the Gulf Cooperation Council
Szidonia Haragos
What the Stars Tell: The Year in India
Pramod K. Nayar
Biographies from the Alps to Capri: The Year in Italy
Ilaria Serra
Emergent Subjectivities: The Year in Korea
Heui-Yung Park
Archiving the Political, Narrating the Personal: The Year in Lebanon
Sleiman El Hajj
Politics and Violence: The Year in Mexico
Gerardo Necoechea Gracia
Mediators as the Subject of Dutch Biography: The Year in the Netherlands
Hans Renders and David Veltman
Voices against Erasure, Loss, and Dehumanization: The Year in Palestine
Adam Yaghi
A Time of Great Biographies—Gombrowicz and Herbert: The Year in Poland
Paweł Rodak, Alessandro Malusà
“No Coward Soul is Mine”: The Year in Portugal
Cláudia Faria
Auto/Biography After Disaster: The Year in Puerto Rico
Ricia Anne Chansky
Cultural Figures and the Biographical Turn: The Year in Romania
Ioana Luca
“Born-Frees” on South Africa’s Memory Traps: The Year in South Africa
Nick Mdika Tembo
Auto/Biography and Conflict: The Year in Spain
Ana Belén Martínez García
“The necessary disloyalty”: The Year in the UK
Tom Overton
#MeToo and the Memoir Boom: The Year in the US
Leigh Gilmore
American Biography: The Year in the US
Carl Rollyson
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After(Life) Narratives of #MeToo
A Special Issue of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
Guest Editors: Rebecca Wanzo (Washington University in St. Louis) and Carol Stabile (University of Oregon)
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2019 Biography Prize
No’ukahau’oli Revilla and Lyz Soto are the recipients of the 2019 Biography Prize. Congratulations to both of these amazing scholars and writers. Both won the prize for their recently defended dissertations. No’ukahau’oli Revillaʻs dissertation is entitled If We Vanish: A Collection of Queer ‘Ōiwi Poetry. The title of Lyz Sotoʻs dissertation is About Homelands Speaking\Her Bodies of Stories.
Release of Biography 41.4
We’re thrilled to announce the publication of the latest special issue of Biography, vol. 41, no. 4, M4BL and the Critical Matter of Black Lives, edited by Brittney Cooper and Treva B. Lindsey
The full issue is available on Project Muse: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/40025
Table of Contents
Introduction to M4BL and the Critical Matter of Black Lives
Brittney Cooper and Treva B. Lindsey
Movement for Black Love: The Building of Critical Communities through the Relational Geography of Movement Spaces
Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester
Choreographies of the Ongoing: Episodes of Black Life, Events of Black Lives
Rhaisa Kameela Williams
Black Lives as Snuff: The Silent Complicity in Viewing Black Death
Rasul A. Mowatt
R.I.P. Shirts or Shirts of the Movement: Reading the Death Paraphernalia of Black Lives
Robin Brooks
Black Lives Abroad: Encounters of Diasporic Solidarity in Brazil
Gillian Maris Jones
Visible Black Motherhood Is a Revolution
Danielle Fuentes Morgan
Mama’s Gon’ Buy You a Mocking Bird: Why #BlackMothersStillMatter
A Short Genealogy of Black Mothers’ Maternal Activism and Politicized Care
Kaila Adia Story
Restoring Optimal Black Mental Health and Reversing Intergenerational Trauma in an Era of Black Lives Matter
Jameta Nicole Barlow
#BlackHealingMatters in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter
Kai M. Green, Je Naé Taylor, Pascale Ifé Williams, and Christopher Roberts
From Ferguson to Palestine: Reimagining Transnational Solidarity Through Difference
Marc Lamont Hill
Ferguson: An Identity Politics Liberation Manifesto
Tef Poe
Brown Bag Biography Spring 2019 Schedule
Every semester, this series feels groundbreaking in the diversity of life writing projects and approaches it showcases. Save the dates, bring your lunch, and join us!
BROWN BAG BIOGRAPHY
DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE WRITING BY & FOR TOWN & GOWN
THURSDAYS, 12:00 NOON–1:15 PM • KUYKENDALL 409A
All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774 or biograph@hawaii.edu
SPRING 2019 SCHEDULE
Jan 24: “At the Edges of Empathy: Journalistic Ethics and Reporting from Conflict Zones in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Gorazde and Sarah Glidden’s Rolling Blackouts”
Eva Karpinski, York University, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Biographical Research
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Jan 31: “Gaucho Legacies: El Sosneado, My Home of Yesteryear (Antonio Entre Ríos)”
Lissi Entre Ríos, Former Dean and Professor of Dance, Instituto Superior de Artes, and Joy Logan, Dept. of Spanish and Latin American and Iberian Studies at UH Mānoa
Feb 7: “Hawaiʻi Stories of Change: Kōkua Hawaiʻi Oral History Project”
Gary Kubota, freelance journalist/playwright/poet
Cosponsored by the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Feb 14: “How I Protested the Vietnam War as a Soldier in the Army”
David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Feb 21: “Writing after Murder: Literary Reportage from Metro Manila”
Laurel Flores Fantauzzo, Dept. of English at UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Feb 28: “The Carceral Continuum: Apparitions of World War II at the Wai’anae Boat Harbor”
Laurel Mei-Singh, Dept. of Ethnic Studies at UH Mānoa
Mar 7: “The Body Speaks: Chief Spence’s Hunger Strike, Treaty Dialogue, and Mixed Media Storytelling”
Sarah Wiebe, Dept. of Political Science at UH Mānoa
Mar 14: “Documenting Extinction: The Making of A Paradise Lost”
Laurie Sumiye, Hawaiʻi-based artist and documentary filmmaker
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Mar 28: “Biography on the Body: Decoding Soviet Prison Tattoos”
Helena Goscilo, Chair of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University
Cosponsored by Russian Studies, Dept. of LLL at UH Mānoa
Apr 4: “The Art of Disappearing: Exploring the Filmmaker’s Process and Presence in Documentary Storytelling”
Ciara Lacy, director and producer of Out of State
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Apr 11: “Biography of a Merchant”
Derrick Higginbotham, Dept. of English at UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Apr 18: “Being Boricua”
Sashily Kling, creative writer with an MA from the Dept. of English at UH Mānoa
Apr 25: “My Daughter Alice: Stalking Behavior and Victims’ Legal Protections”
Clive Ruggles, Professor Emeritus of Archaeoastronomy, University of Leicester
Release of Biography 41.3
We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of Biography, vol. 41, no. 3, which includes two clusters–Asian American Hip-Hop Musical Auto/Biographies (edited by Roderick N. Labrador and Brian Su-Jen Chung) and Political Biography in Literature and Cinema (edited by Joanny Moulin and Delphine Letort).
The full issue is available on Project Muse: http://muse.jhu.edu/issue/39537
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
“Freaky” Asian Americans, Hip-Hop, and Musical Autobiography: An Introduction
Roderick N. Labrador
“Bad Gal” and the “Bad” Refugee: Refugee Narratives, Neoliberal Violence, and Musical Autobiography in Honey Cocaine’s Cambodian Canadian Hip-Hop
Kenneth Chan
Redefined What is Meant to Be Divine: Prayer and Protest in Blue Scholars
Mark Redondo Villegas
The Posse Cut as Autobiographical Utterance of Place in the Night Marchers’ Three Dots
Ruben Enrique Campos III
(Re)Writing Contemporary Cantonese Heritage Language and Identity: Examining MC Jin’s ABC Album
Melissa Chen and Genevieve Leung
Narrating Failure: MC Jin’s Return to Rap in the United States
Brian Su-Jen Chung
Beats, Rhymes, and Life in the Ocean of Sound: An Object-Oriented Methodology for Encountering Rap Music
David A. M. Goldberg
Introduction to Political Biography in Literature and Cinema
Delphine Letort and Joanny Moulin
French Television and Political Biography
Rémi Fontanel
Recasting the Iron Lady into Flesh and Blood: Gender Performance and Politics in Three Thatcher Biopics
Nicole Cloarec
Writing the Life of Ronald Reagan: An Impossible Mission?
Françoise Coste
From Political Biography to Political Event: The Daens Myth in Literature in Cinema
Gertjan Willems
Political Life Writing in the Pacific: Reflections on Practice ed. by Jack Corbett and Brij V. Lal (review)
Alexander Mawyer
Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their by Leigh Gilmore (review)
Sarah Brophy
Picture Bride Stories by Barbara F. Kawakami (review)
Kelli Y. Nakamura
How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses? Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs by Tahneer Oksman (review)
Roberta Mock
Gendered Testimonies of the Holocaust Writing Life by Petra M. Schweitzer (review)
Batsheva Ben-Amos
Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age Survivors’ Stories and New Media Practices by Jeffrey Shandler (review)
Sarah Jefferies
Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies by Kimberly G. Wieser (review)
Lisa King
Corrigendum
Nadine Gordimer and the Vices of Biography: A Reply to Hedley Twidle
Ronald Suresh Roberts
Release of Biography 41.2 on Interviewing as Creative Practice
Biography’s latest special issue, Interviewing as Creative Practice, guest-edited by Anneleen Masschelein and Rebecca Roach, is now available for download on Project Muse!
Please help us spread the word! https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/25
Table of Contents
Putting Things Together: Introduction to Interviewing as Creative Practice
Anneleen Masschelein, Rebecca Roach
The Interview as Criticism: David Sylvester’s Artist Interviews
James Finch
Confessions of a Ventriloquist
Sylvère Lotringer, Anneleen Masschelein, Catherine Combes
Criticism Live: The History and Practice of the Critical Interview
Jeffrey J. Williams
Emergent Conversations: Bronwyn Davies on the Transformation of Interview Practices in the Social Sciences
Anneleen Masschelein, Rebecca Roach
“Three words you must never say”: Hermione Lee on Interviewing
Rebecca Roach
The Interviewer Speaks Back: Turning the Tables of the Literary Interview in Contemporary French Novels
Galia Yanoshevsky
“To Unreel a Whole Story”: Julia Kerninon on Writers’ Interviews
Rebecca Roach
“Making Friends”: The Geopolitics of the Interview on the BBC’S Eastern Services
Julie Cyzewski
Ways of Seeing/Ways of Talking: Conversation and Collage in the Films of Mike Dibb
Anneleen Masschelein
Morituri Te Salutant: The Mediatization of the Literary Last Interview at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
Anneleen Masschelein
Theoretical Perspectives on Historians’ Autobiographies: From Documentation to Intervention by Jaume Aurell (review)
Barbara Caine
Documentary Across Disciplines eds. by Erika Balsom and Hila Peleg (review)
S. Topiary Landberg
Women Writing Cloth: Migratory Fictions in the American Imaginary by Mary Jo Bona (review)
Christine D. Beaule
Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Autobiographical Process—Explorations in Narrative Psychology by Jens Brockmeier (review)
Maarit Leskelä-Kärki
Reading Lessons in Seeing: Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel by Michael A. Chaney (review)
Anna Poletti
PInay: Culture Bearers of the Filipino Diaspora eds. by Virgie Chattergy and Pepi Nieva (review)
Kim Compoc
Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation by Kate Douglas and Anna Poletti (review)
Victoria Ford Smith
Click and Kin: Transnational Identity and Quick Media eds. by May Friedman and Silvia Schultermandl (review)
Oline Eaton
Representations of Forgetting in Life Writing and Fiction by Gunnthorunn Gudmundsdottir (review)
Ellen G. Friedman
Biography, Gender and History: Nordic Perspectives ed. by Erla Hulda Halldórsdóttir et al. (review)
Hannah Yoken
Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts by George M. Johnson (review)
Kathy J. Phillips
Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II eds. by Marlene Kadar and Jeanne Perreault (review)
Penny Summerfield
Girls’ Feminist Blogging in a Postfeminist Age by Jessalynn Keller (review)
Akane Kanai
Autobiographical Comics by Andrew J. Kunka (review)
Candida Rifkind
Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism ed. by Eric D. Lamore (review)
Roland Leander Williams Jr.
Joseph: Portraits through the Ages by Alan T. Levenson (review)
Kapali Lyon
Memoir Ethics: Good Lives and the Virtues by Mike W. Martin (review)
Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai’i: From the Land of the Morning Calm to Hawai’i Nei by Heui-Yung Park (review)
Joseph Han
Understanding Biographies: On Biographies in History and Stories in Biography by Birgitte Possing (review)
Jeremy D. Popkin
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds: Creating Community by Voicing the Past by Andrea L. Smith and Anna Eisenstein (review)
Michael Silverstein
Life Writing in the Long Run by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson (review)
Thomas R. Smith
Emblem of Faith Untouched: A Short Life of Thomas Cranmer by Leslie Williams (review)
Fredrica Harris Thompsett
The Antiquary: John Aubrey’s Historical Scholarship by Kelsey Jackson Williams (review)
Andrea Walkden
Fall 2018 Brown Bag Biography
Every semester, this series feels groundbreaking in the diversity of life writing projects and approaches it showcases. Save the dates, bring your lunch, and join us!
BROWN BAG BIOGRAPHY
DISCUSSIONS OF LIFE WRITING BY & FOR TOWN & GOWN
THURSDAYS, 12:00 NOON–1:15 PM • KUYKENDALL 409A
All are welcome to attend. For more information, please contact the Center for Biographical Research at 956-3774 or biograph@hawaii.edu
FALL 2018 SCHEDULE
Sept 27: “Writing About Other People’s Memories.”
Ellen G. Friedman, English Dept., The College of New Jersey
Cosponsored by U H Fund for the Promotion of Jewish Life and Studies and the UHM Dept of English
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Oct 4: “Techniques for Conveying Unusual Personal Experience (Such as Growing Up with Psychics): Readings from Two Short Sections of River Stone Running.”
Kathy Phillips, Dept. of English, UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
Oct. 11: “Hawaiʻi Okinawan-Owned Restaurant Project: Oral History and Community Archives.”
Gene Kaneshiro and Howard Takara, Project Leaders
Cosponsored by the Center for Oral History
Oct. 18: “Kihawahine: Shapeshifting Life and Afterlife of Maui’s Famous Akua Mo’o.”
Māhealani Ahia, Dept. of English, UH Mānoa
Oct 25: “Return to Kahiki: Native Hawaiians in Oceania.”
Kealani Cook, Dept. of Humanities, UH West-O‘ahu
Nov. 1: “Jewish Childhood Recollections in Post-Soviet Autobiographical Discourse.”
Marina Balina, Russian Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University
Cosponsored by Russian Studies, Dept of LLL at UH Mānoa
Brown Bag Biography Cosponsored Event on Nov 1st: 3:00 to 4:30 pm, Lecture in KUY 410: Ramzy Baroud, “Give the Palestinian People the Right to Tell Their Own Stories.” Response from Gaza by Yousef AlJamal (via Skype).
Cosponsored by UH-Students and Faculty for Justice in Palestine and the UHM Departments of English and Political Science
Nov 8: “‘Aumua Mata’itusi Simanu: The Lifestory of a Ninety-Seven-Year-Old Samoan Orator and Educator in Diaspora.”
Fata Simanu-Klutz, Indo-Pacific Languages and Literatures, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, UH Mānoa
TUESDAY Nov 13: “The ‘intimate sphere of poetry’ of Ștefan Baciu, Jean Charlot, and Larry Kauanoe Kimura in the literary magazine MELE: International poetry letter from Hawaiʻi.”
Yoshiro Sakamoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Visiting Researcher at the Center for Biographical Research UH-Mānoa
Nov 29: “Art for Life.”
Don Ed Hardy, Tattoo Artist, Author, and Curator
TUESDAY Dec 4: “Nā Wāhine Koa: Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization.”
Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, Indigenous Politics, UH Mānoa
*this session will be held in KUYKENDALL 410
We’re hiring!
Aloha Friends,
The Center for Biographical Research seeks a managing editor to join our team of editors, and we are hoping you can help spread the word about this exciting opportunity!
The job description for this full-time, permanent position can be found below.
This position is designed for those who are invested in life writing and editing, and the position comes with travel opportunities and benefits.
The ad for the Editor position (#80851) is posted here.
**The closing date is 06/29/2018 at 11:59 PM.**
Please note that all applicants will have to apply on this site.
Sincerely,
The CBR Team