Autobiography and Changing Identities

27-30 July 2000
The University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada

 

 

 

 

Conference Organizers:

Susanna Egan is Associate Head and Chair of the Graduate Program in the Department of English at UBC. She has taught women's writing, 19th century literature, and autobiography studies. Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography was published by North Carolina Press in 1999.

Gabriele Helms is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at UBC. In her current research she explores the connections between generic instability in contemporary Canadian life-writing and reconceptualizations of experience. She has published on auto/biography and contemporary Canadian literature. Challenging Canada: Dialogism and Narrative Techniques in Canadian Novels will be published by McGill-Queen's University Press next year.

Shirley Neuman is Dean of the College of Literature, Science and the Arts, and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She spent many years in Canadian universities where she taught modernist literature, women's writing, and Canadian literature. She has published numerous books, edited volumes, and articles on autobiography, the modernists, and Canadian writing. She has also been the founding member of two Canadian literary presses.

 

For information about the conference, please contact us at:

ab2000@arts.ubc.ca

 

You can also write to us at:

Department of English
The University of British Columbia
397-1873 East Mall
Vancouver, BC
V6T 1Z1
Canada

Or send us a fax at:

(604) 822-6906

 

 

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