Showing posts with label life writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life writing. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
2015 Keynote Speaker: Dr. Emily Hipchen
We’re pleased to announce that this year’s keynote speaker will be Emily Hipchen. Dr. Hipchen is an Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia. She is currently on the Executive Committee of the MLA Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing. She is co-editor of the academic journal a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and editor of Adoption & Culture. Also, Dr. Hipchen is co-editor of the books Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez, The Autobiography Studies Reader, and of Autobiography Studies across the Americas. Her poetry and creative nonfiction have appeared in Bayou Magazine, Solstice, Fourth Genre, Arts & Letters, Baltimore Review, and elsewhere. Furthermore, Dr. Hipchen has taught a breadth of courses under the English Studies umbrella, ranging from “New Journalism and Modernist Forms” to “Life Writing and Trauma.”
Monday, December 3, 2012
New Directions Proposal: Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence: Aging, Identity, Secrets, and Silence: Part 2
Amy E. Robillard, Stephanie Guedet Scott, and Debbie Parker will present "Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence: Aging, Identity, Secrets, and Silence: Part 2."
Abstract: How do we narrate violence in ways that elide the complexities of affective life in the early twenty-first century? How can contemporary life writing scholarship contribute to an understanding of violence in its myriad forms? This two-part presentation examines the rhetorics of violence across genres and disciplines, including children’s literature, memoir, and family history while theorizing the ways in which the narration of aging, identity, secrets, and silence itself constitutes a form of violence. This work, coming out of a semester-long inquiry embodying the central tenets of the English Studies model, reveals the complex multi-dimensionality of violence as it is conceptualized in transdisciplinary spaces.
Because this presentation represents the in(ter)dependent work of five English Studies scholars, we request a two-panel, back-to-back session. We plan to divide our time into a brief introduction and four robust presentations.
Kathleen Daly, Stephanie Guedet Scott, Debbie Parker, Amy Robillard, and Elizabeth Williams participated in what they like to call an interdependent study in Fall 2012 called Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence. Their work together was interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intimate. As such, individual biographies would constitute a kind of rhetorical violence that their work refuses.
Abstract: How do we narrate violence in ways that elide the complexities of affective life in the early twenty-first century? How can contemporary life writing scholarship contribute to an understanding of violence in its myriad forms? This two-part presentation examines the rhetorics of violence across genres and disciplines, including children’s literature, memoir, and family history while theorizing the ways in which the narration of aging, identity, secrets, and silence itself constitutes a form of violence. This work, coming out of a semester-long inquiry embodying the central tenets of the English Studies model, reveals the complex multi-dimensionality of violence as it is conceptualized in transdisciplinary spaces.
Because this presentation represents the in(ter)dependent work of five English Studies scholars, we request a two-panel, back-to-back session. We plan to divide our time into a brief introduction and four robust presentations.
Kathleen Daly, Stephanie Guedet Scott, Debbie Parker, Amy Robillard, and Elizabeth Williams participated in what they like to call an interdependent study in Fall 2012 called Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence. Their work together was interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intimate. As such, individual biographies would constitute a kind of rhetorical violence that their work refuses.
New Directions Proposal: Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence: Aging, Identity, Secrets, and Silence, Part 1
Amy E. Robillard, Kathleen Daly, and Elizabeth Williams will present "Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence: Aging, Identity, Secrets, and Silence, Part 1"
Abstract: How do we narrate violence in ways that elide the complexities of affective life in the early twenty-first century? How can contemporary life writing scholarship contribute to an understanding of violence in its myriad forms? This two-part presentation examines the rhetorics of violence across genres and disciplines, including children’s literature, memoir, and family history while theorizing the ways in which the narration of aging, identity, secrets, and silence itself constitutes a form of violence. This work, coming out of a semester-long inquiry embodying the central tenets of the English Studies model, reveals the complex multi-dimensionality of violence as it is conceptualized in transdisciplinary spaces.
Because this presentation represents the in(ter)dependent work of five English Studies scholars, we request a two-panel, back-to-back session. We plan to divide our time into a brief introduction and four robust presentations.
Kathleen Daly, Stephanie Guedet Scott, Debbie Parker, Amy Robillard, and Elizabeth Williams participated in what they like to call an interdependent study in Fall 2012 called Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence. Their work together was interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intimate. As such, individual biographies would constitute a kind of rhetorical violence that their work refuses.
Abstract: How do we narrate violence in ways that elide the complexities of affective life in the early twenty-first century? How can contemporary life writing scholarship contribute to an understanding of violence in its myriad forms? This two-part presentation examines the rhetorics of violence across genres and disciplines, including children’s literature, memoir, and family history while theorizing the ways in which the narration of aging, identity, secrets, and silence itself constitutes a form of violence. This work, coming out of a semester-long inquiry embodying the central tenets of the English Studies model, reveals the complex multi-dimensionality of violence as it is conceptualized in transdisciplinary spaces.
Because this presentation represents the in(ter)dependent work of five English Studies scholars, we request a two-panel, back-to-back session. We plan to divide our time into a brief introduction and four robust presentations.
Kathleen Daly, Stephanie Guedet Scott, Debbie Parker, Amy Robillard, and Elizabeth Williams participated in what they like to call an interdependent study in Fall 2012 called Life Writing and Rhetorics of Violence. Their work together was interdisciplinary, collaborative, and intimate. As such, individual biographies would constitute a kind of rhetorical violence that their work refuses.
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