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        • 24.1: Autobiography and Changing Identities
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        • 27.1: Personal Effects: The Testimonial Uses of Life Writing
        • 30.1: Life Writing and Science Fiction
        • 31.1: Autographics
        • 31.3: Something Other than Autobiography: Collaborative Life-Narratives in the Americas
        • 32.1: IABA: Life Writing and Translations
        • 33.1: Personal Narrative & Political Discourse
        • 34.1: Life Writing & Intimate Publics
        • 34.3: Performing Queer Lives
        • 35.2: Life Stories from the Creole City
        • 36.1: Baleful Postcoloniality
        • 36.3: “He the One We All Knew”
        • 37.1: Life Writing and Corporate Personhood
        • 37.2: Life in Occupied Palestine
        • 38.1: Auto/Biography in Transit
        • 38.2: Online Lives 2.0
        • 39.1: The Verse Biography
        • 40.1: Caste and Life Narratives
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“My Name is Dovie” Video

Click here to watch the video!

As Warren Cariou notes in his article "Life-Telling: Indigenous Oral Autobiography and the Performance of Relation,” "Dovie Thomason told 'My Name Is Dovie' to an audience of approximately 120 Native Studies students and other interested listeners at the University of Manitoba on January 22, 2015. This was her inaugural performance as Storyteller-in-Residence at the Centre for Creative Writing and Oral Culture” (316).

Cariou’s article is available in the journal Biography, issue 39, volume 3, 2016. Cariou's full article is also available through purchasing an individual print copy of the journal here.

Free access to Biography 37.2!

The special issue of Biography entitled "Life in Occupied Palestine," edited by Cynthia G. Franklin Morgan Cooper, and Ibrahim G. Aoudé, is available for free on Project MUSE! Click here to access the issue! Also available on Project MUSE is Professor Franklin's article in Biography 38.3 that details the aftermath of the issue, "The Afterlife of the Text: Launching 'Life in Occupied Palestine'" (restricted access, unfortunately!).

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  • Release of Biography 42.4
  • 2020 Biography Prize
  • Release of Biography 42.3
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Established in 1988, the Center for Biographical Research (CBR) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa is dedicated to the interdisciplinary and multicultural study of life writing. CBR programs include teaching, publication, and outreach activities. The CBR publishes Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, the premier scholarly journal in its field. Appearing continuously since 1978, Biography explores the theoretical, historical, generic, cultural, and practical dimensions of life writing.

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University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Center for Biographical Research
1960 East-West Road, Biomed B-104
Honolulu, Hawaiʻi 96822

Phone: (808) 956-3774

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