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Crossing The Void: Life after the PhD This new blog series, edited by Olga Michael, addresses the challenges facing emerging scholars upon completion of their graduate degrees. The series invites emerging and established scholars to share their experiences and advice, joining us in a conversation that devised strategies to cross this void...
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Playing with Self-Narrative: The Interactive (Non)fiction of Depression Quest Adan Jerreat-Poole reflects on how select game designers are coding their life experiences into games, while players are actively playing their personal stories into existence. She focuses on Zoe Quinn’s Depression Quest as both an expression of the creator’s subjective experience of mental illness, and an interactive medium that allows mad players to choose-their-own-life-narrative about depression.
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Lena Dunham and Sexual Violence Amanda Spallacci explores the power life writing in the field of gender and sexuality, through a discussion of Dunham's narrative of a sexual encounter that she classifies as rape vs. her refusal to identify as a rape victim, considering the narrative vis-a-vis theories of rape culture which explain what is at stake when a person identifies as a rape victim.
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Gender Enhancement Anna Kozak writes about performativity and capitalism in Chuck Palahniuk’s 'Frontiers' (from Stranger than Fiction: True Stories)
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On Professionalization, Collaboration, and Mentorship In this emerging scholars' conversation Jason Breiter, Lucinda Rasmussen and Orly Lael Netzer summarize their experience as (first-time) guest editors of Biography's special issue "Auto/biography in Transit". In response, Julie Rak reflects on the role of mentorship in academia, and her experience leading this team.
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Wellness through Womyn's Circle In this post, Tala Khanmalek and Maria Faini discuss wellness, self care, safe spaces, discourses on ability, and political praxis made possible through a co-creative healing circle.
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Hunt: Using Facebook's Timeline as a Platform for Storytelling Amin Ansari, a young Iranian novelist, reflects on transforming his novel Hunt into a transmedia project -- creating a FB profile for his protagonist and using the FB Timeline as a way to blur the boundaries between fiction and life, transcend censorship, and explore the limits of readership.
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LitFest Stories Karla Comanda and Niall Fink, two emerging Albertan writers, reflect on reading and writing lives. Their reflections emerge from their participation at Edmonton's annual non-fiction festival. #LitFest14
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Life Writing in the Canadian Rockies Elizabeth Rodrigues, Alex Winder, and Maria Faini on emerging-scholar mentorship and life writing as political praxis. Autobiography In Transit Recap.
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Autobiography in Transit - Conference Review Seraphima Kennedy reviews the 2014 IABA World Conference, in Banff, Alberta, Canada.
Autobiography in Transit - Conference Review
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Welcome to The Conversation This network came into being through a discussion that began in Banff and has continued, across locations and time zones, for months. Rather than creating a tidy but misrepresentative statement of purpose, we invite you to join us in what we hope will be an ongoing conversation.
Welcome to The Conversation
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