Sidonie Smith

Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies Chair of the English Department Ph.D., Case Western Reserve

Contact Information:
3187 Angell Hall
435 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003
734.647.7477
Email: sidsmith@umich.edu

Website:
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/faculty/fibdetail.asp?ID=288

Biography: Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women’s Studies and Chair of the English Department. Her fields of interest include human rights and personal narrative, women’s autobiography, women’s travel narrative and memory, women’s studies in literature more generally, feminist theory, and postcolonial literatures. 

Publications:

A Poetics of Women's Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation (Indiana University Press, 1987).

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, University of Minnesota Press, 1996).

Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe (co-edited with Gisela Brinker-Gabler, University of Minnesota Press, 1997)

Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader (co-edited with Julia Watson, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998).

Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (with Julia Watson, University of Minnesota, 2001).

Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth Century Travel Narratives (University of Minnesota, 2001).

 Interfaces: Women’s Visual and Performance Autobiography (co-edited with Julia Watson, University of Michigan Press, 2002).

Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (with Kay Schaffer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing 1819-1919. (co-edited with Julia Watson, 2007, Univisity of Wisconsin Press).