Friday 13 April (3222 Angell Hall)
9:30-10:00
Sidonie Smith— University of Michigan
Introductory Remarks
Books:
Where I’m Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography (Greenwood Press, 1974); A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Indiana University Press, 1987); De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women’s Autobiography, co-edited with Julia Watson (Minnesota University Press, 1982); Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century (Indiana University Press, 1993); Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography, co-edited with Julia Watson (Minnesota University Press, 1996); Writing New Identities: Gender, Nationalism and Immigration in New European Subjects, co-edited with Gisela Brinker-Gabler (University of Minnesota Press, 1996); Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader, Co-edited with Julia Watson (University of Wisconsin Press, 1998); Indigenous Australian Voices, Co-edited with Kay Schaffer and Jenifer Sabioni (Rutgers University Press, 1998); The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games, co-edited Kay Schaffer (Rutgers University Press, 2000); Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (University of Minnesota, 2001); Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth Century Travel Narratives (University of Minnesota, 2001); Interfaces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance, co-edited Julia Watson (University of Michigan Press, 2002); Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (Palgrave-St Martin's, 2004);and numerous articles.