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Books (Monographs and Edited Works)
Books (Monographs and Edited Works)
2023: Ed. with Sonja Boon, Laurie McNeill, Candida Rifkind. The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada. New York: Routledge. Series editors Robert Lecker and Lorraine M. York. 227 pp.
2020-2022: Associate Editor, Identities volume 2 of Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Online version published July 2020. 1103-1526.
2021: False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction. Kingston, Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 268 pp.
2021: Edited with Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer and Sarah McRae, Trans Narratives: Trans, Transmedia, Transnational. London and New York: Routledge. Reprint of 2019: with Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer and Sarah McRae, Eds. Special issue of a/b: auto/biography studies 34.1, "Trans Narratives."
2018. Edited with Hannah McGregor and Erin Wunker. Refuse: CanLit in Ruins. Toronto: Book*hug Press.
2015. Life Among the Qallunaat by Mini Aodla Freeman. Eds. Keavy Martin and Julie Rak. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.
2014. with Anna Poletti, Co-Editor. Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online. Madison, WI: Wisconsin University Press.
2013. Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
2009. with Jeremy Popkin, Co- editor. On Diary, by Philippe LeJeune. Translated by Katharine Durnin. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.2005: Editor, Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions . Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press.
2008. with Andrew Gow, Co-editor. Mountain Masculinity: the Life and Writings Nell "Tex" Vernon-Wood in the Canadian Rockies, 1906-1938. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press.
2005. Editor. Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
2004: Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.
Finalist, 2006 Raymond Klibansky Prize (now the Canada Prize) for the best English-language academic book in the humanities, in Canada.
Special Issues of Journals
Special Issues of Journals
2021: with Ana Horvat, Orly Lael Netzer and Sarah McRae, "Introduction: "Unfixing the Prefix," Trans Narratives: Trans, Transmedia, Transnational. London and New York: Routledge, 1-7. doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2019.1548084
2020: with Bill Mullen, Ed. Special cluster for Biography, "Academic Freedom, Academic Lives." Vol 42, no. 4.
2015: with Jason Breiter, Orly Lael Netzer and Lucinda Rasmussen, Eds. Special issue of Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly, "Auto/biography in Transit."
2009: Editor, special issue "Popular Auto/biography" of The Canadian Review of American Studies.Includes a 5 page introduction, "Pop Life."
2008. Reader's Forum "Popular Culture and the Culture of Research Funding." English Studies in Canada 32.4. Spring.
2008. with Sharon Rosenberg and Anne Whitelaw, Eds. Special issue of Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, "What's the Matter: Cultural Studies and Urgency."
Articles
2024: “Teaching Secrets: Reading Alice Munro for Information.” The Typescript. July 25, 2024. (not peer-reviewed--public resource).
2022: "Mediation Then and Now: Ang Tharkay's Sherpa and Memoires d’un Sherpa." Primerjalna književnost [Comparative Literature Slovenia] vol. 45 no. 3:125-144. 8172 words. https://doi.org/10.3986/pkn.v45.i3.08
2022: "Margaret Atwood and Sexual Assault." Canadian Literature vol. 250: 79-111. 13,750 words.
2022: “Pocket Queens: women, poker, perifeminist strategy.” Critical Gambling Studies. 9400 words. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs103.
2021: “Because it is there? Mount Everest, Masculinity and the Body of George Mallory.” International Journal of the History of Sport. https://doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2020.1854738
2019: “Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: feminist theory outside the lines.” A/B: AutoBiography Studies 33.3 (Autumn 2018) special issue, "Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. 541-549. DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2018.1499486
2018: with Anna Poletti, "We're all born naked and the rest is" mediation: Drag as Automedia. M/C: a journal of media and culture 21 (2). Article
2018: "The Hidden Genre: Diaries and Time." Festschrift for Philippe Lejeune. European Journal of Life Writing Studies VII. 84-89. Article
2017: "Radical Connections: Genealogy, Small Lives, Big Data." a/b: AutoBiography Studies special issue “Excavating Lives.” 32.3 (Spring 2017). Eds. Amy-Katerini Prodromou and Nicoletta Demetriou. 479-497. EPrint
Winner, the 2017 Hogan Prize, a/b: AutoBiography Studies.
2016: “Derailments: Going Offline to be Online.” a/b: AutoBiography Studies special issue “What’s Next? The Futures of AutoBiography Studies.” 32.2 (2017). 163-165.
2016: “Life Writing.” Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Eva Marie Kroller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 239-260.
2016: “Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies special issue “Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narrative.” Eds. Kate Douglas and Laurie McNeill. 100-104.
2016: with Danielle Fuller. “’True Stories,' Real Lives: Canada Reads 2012 and the Effects of Reading Memoir in Public.” Studies in Canada Literature 40.2 (Winter 2016): 25-45.
2015: Life Writing Versus Automedia: The Sims 3 game as a life lab. biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly 38.2 (Spring 2015): 155-180.
2014: "Canadian Life Writing." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. New York: Oxford University Press. 813-824.
2012: "Memoir, Truthiness and the Power of Oprah: the James Frey Controversy Reconsidered."Prose Studies 34.3: 224-242.
2010: “Insecure Citizenship: Michael Ignatieff, Canada, Memoir.” Special issue of Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly 32.1 “Personal Narrative and Political Discourse” Ed. Sidonie Smith. 1-23.
2009: "The Electric Self: Doing Virtual Research for Real in Second Life ®." Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly 32.1 (Winter 2009): 148-160.
2007: "The Doukhobor Problem: Sons of Freedom Women in the Media, 1952-1960." Journal of Religion and Theology 26 (1).
2007: "Social Climbing on Annapurna: gender in high-altitude mountaineering narratives."English Studies in Canada 33.1-2.
2005: “Bio-Power: CBC Television’s Life and Times and A&E Network’s Biography.” Life Writing special issue, “Reconsidering Genre,” Ed. Laurie McNeill, Vol. 2 no. 2: 3-30.
2005: "The Digital Queer: Weblogs and Internet Identity." biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly special issue "Inhabiting Multiple Worlds: Auto/biography in an (Anti-)Global Age vol 28, no. 1 (Winter): 166-182.
2004: "Are Memoirs Autobiography? A consideration of memoir and public identity." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture , vol. XXXVII no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter). 483-504.
2004: "Pain and Painting: William Kurelek and Autobiography as Mourning." Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature 37 (2) June: 21-40.
2004: "Popular Memoir and the Roots of Citizenship: Rousseau, Mountaineering, Autobiography."a/b: a journal of auto/biography studies special issue "Autobiography and the Generations," Eds. Richard Freedman and John Gatt-Rutter. Vol. 19 nos. 1-2 (Summer and Winter): 10-18
2003: "Do Witness: Don't: a Woman's Word and Trauma as Pedagogy." topia: a Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies 10 (Fall): 53-72.
2002: "Autobiography and Production: the Case of Conrad Black." International Journal of Canadian Studies 25 (Spring): 149-166.
2001: "Doukhobor Autobiography as Witness Narrative." biography: an interdisciplinary quarterly. 24 no. 1 "Special Issue: Autobiography and Changing Identities." (Winter) 226-241.
2001: "Double-Wampum, Double-Life, Double Click: E. Pauline Johnson by and for the World Wide Web", Textual Studies in Canada, 13/14 "The Bibliotherapy Issue." 153-170.
1998: "The Improving Eye: Travel Literature and Agricultural Change in the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highlands," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture.
Book Chapters
Book Chapters
2025: “Diaries, Amsterdam and the Post-digital.” Eds. Marleen Rensen, Leonieke Vermeer, Laura van Hasselt and Ernestine Hoegen. Amsterdam in Diaries and Life Writing. Amsterdam University Press. In press.
2025: "Auto/biographical Comics in World Literature: Silences and Gaps.” Life Writing as World Literature. Edited by Ioana Luca and Helga Lénárt-Cheng. Bloomsbury. pp. 35-54.
2025: “Autobiographical Writing ‘from below’ and Popular Forms of Life Writing,” Handbook of Life Writing. English and American Studies: Genres, Media, Periods, Texts, Theories. Eds. Alfred Hornung and Helga Schwalm. De Gruyter. 3750 words. In press.
2024: “Festival Obscura: Gender, Race, Class in Festival-Driven Mountaineering Documentaries.” Global Mountain Cinema. 6000 words. Eds. Christian Quendler, Kamaal Haque, Caroline Schaumann. Edinburgh University Press. pp. 209-224.
2023: Afterword, Routledge Companion to Literary Media. Eds. Astrid Ensslin, Bronwen Thomas and Julia Round. Routledge, UK. 538-546.
2023: Foreword. Moving Mountains: Gender, Politics and Change. Edited by Jenny Hall, Emma Boocock and Zoe Avner. Palgrave MacMillan (Springer Nature). v-ix.
2021: "Just the facts? Nonfictionality and Life Writing." Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory. Eds. Paul Dawson and Maria Makela, Routledge. 286-298.
2021: “Performativity.” Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. 8600 words. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.1079 .
2020. “Big Data and Self-Tracking: research trajectories.” Research Methodologies for Auto/biography Studies. Edited by Ashley Barnwell and Kate Douglas. London and New York: Routledge. In press.
2020: “The Diary Among Other Forms of Life Writing.” The Diary: Epic of Everyday Life. Eds. Batsheva Ben-Amos and Dan Ben-Amos. Indiana University Press. 58-74.
2020: “Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: feminist theory outside the lines.” Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. New York: Routledge. Reprint of “Marlene Kadar’s Life Writing: feminist theory outside the lines.” A/B: AutoBiography Studies 33.3 (Autumn 2018) special issue, "Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas. 541-549. DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2018.1499486.
2019: “Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail.” Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives. Eds. Kate Douglas and Laurie McNeill. New York and London: Routledge. 96-99. Reprint of “Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies special issue “Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narrative.” Eds. Kate Douglas and Laurie McNeill. 100-104.
2018: "The Afterlife of a Disaster: Everest 1996 Memoirs as Gendered Testimony." Inscribed Identities. Ed. Joan Ramon. London and New York: Routledge. 172-190.
2018: "Double-Wampum, Double-Life, Double Click: E. Pauline Johnson by and for the World Wide Web" Poetry Criticism: Pauline Johnson. Lawrence J. Trudeau, General Editor. Layman, SC: Latman Poupard Publishing, 135-145. Reprint of "Double-Wampum, Double-Life, Double Click: E. Pauline Johnson by and for the World Wide Web", Textual Studies in Canada, 13/14 "The Bibliotherapy Issue." 153-170.
2016: “The Transnational Autobiographical Pact: the Canada Reads 2012 Controversy.” Eds. Ricia Anne Chansky and Emily Hipchen. Autobiography Across the Americas. New York: Routledge. 54-72.
2016: “Lament for a Hockey Nation, Don Cherry and the Apparatus of Canadian Celebrity.” Cultures of Celebrity in Canada. Eds. Katja Lee and Lorraine York. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 150-178.
2015: “Dialogue with the Future: Philippe Lejeune’s Method and Theory of Diary” translated into German for »Liebes Tagebuch...«. Zur Theorie und Praxis des Journals. Ed. Lutz Hagestedt. Reprint of Dialogue with the Future: Philippe Lejeune’s Method and Theory of Diary.” On Diary, by Philippe LeJeune. Translated by Katharine Durnin. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.2005: Editor, Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions . Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier Press.
2015: “Are memoirs autobiography? A consideration of memoir and public identity.” The Auto/biography Studies Reader. Eds. Ricia Canton and Emily Hipchen. New York and London: Routledge. Reprint of "Are Memoirs Autobiography? A consideration of memoir and public identity." Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture , vol. XXXVII no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter). 483-504.
2014: “Translocal Representation: the 'Lit' in CanLit as Problematic.” Eds. Smaro Kamboureli and Christl Verduyn. Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.175-198.
2012: "Genre in the Marketplace: the Scene of Bookselling in Canada." From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Anouk Lang. Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press. 159-173.
2010: "Identity's Industry: Genre and Memoirs." Auto/biography and Mediation. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter. 173-182.
2010: "Attack of the 50 Ft. Anthology! Adventures in Teaching Cultural Studies." Rethinking Cultural Studies. Ed. Paul Smith. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. 45-52.
2010: with Philomena Okeke-Ijherika. "Between the Waves: Two Perspectives." Eds. Susan Brown, Jeanne Perreault, Jo-Ann Wallace and Heather Zwicker. Waving, Not Drowning: Feminism in the Humanities. Edmonton. University of Alberta Press. 285-302.
2008: "Looking Back at Sodom: My Evangelical and Lesbian Testimonies." Ed. Elijah Dann. Leaving Fundamentalism: Personal Stories. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 95-108.
2008: “Canadian Idols: CBC Television and Imported National Biography.”Programming Reality: Perspectives on English-Canadian Television. Eds. Zoe Druick and Aspa Kotsopoulos. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press. 51-68.
2007: "The Located Utterance: Bakhtin, Embodiment, Jesus." A Smorgasbord of Postmodernity. Ed. Deborah Bowen. London, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press. 150-172.
2007: with Heidi Janz. “Challenging Subjects: Ruth Sienkiewicz-Mercer, Christopher Nolan and Autobiography.” Val Raoul, Conie Canam, Angela D. Henderson and Carla Paterson, Eds. Unfitting Stories: Narratives of Disease, Disability and Trauma. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 79-88.
2004: "One Hybrid Discourse of Doukhobor Identity: the Freedomite Diary from Agassiz Prison."Adjacencies : Minority Writing in Canada. Eds. Lianne Moyes, Licia Canton and Domenic Beneventi.Toronto: Guernica, 235-254.
Selected Interviews
Selected Interviews
2024: The Diary: Life, Page by Page. Panel for the BBC World Service program The Forum. Release date Aug 24, 2024.
2024: Interview by Natalie Stechyson, "How Carley Fortune's buzzy romance books are making beloved Canadian locations seem ... sexy." CBC News. 19 May. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carley-fortune-books-1.7205925
2022: Interview by Sithara Naidoo, “U of A Arts professor publishes new book about sexism and racism in mountaineering.” The Gateway. 8 July 2022 https://thegatewayonline.ca/2022/07/uofa-arts-professor-publishes-new-book-sexism-racism-in-mountaineering-the-gateway/
2022: "Ascending Marginalized Stories to New Heights." Interview with Brigitte Rioux for The Quad, University of Alberta. https://www.ualberta.ca/the-quad/2022/05/ascending-marginalized-stories-to-new-heights.html
2022: Guest (regarding mountaineering and gender), Extreme Medicine Podcast, Steven Wood, Harvard University. Feb. 1.
2021: Interview with Isaac Murdock for the podcast “Night Rules,” on Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism, Sept. 14.
2018: with Robert Zacharias, "Mennonite(s) Writing and Cruel Optimism. Journal of Mennonite Studies VIII (36, 2018): 15-24.
2018: with Hannah MacGregor and Erin Wunker. Interview by Suzanne Alyssa Andrew. “Powerful, Diverse Writers Strike a Literary Reckoning in Refuse: CanLit in Ruins.” Quill and Quire 22 Oct. 2018. https://quillandquire.com/omni/powerful-diverse-writers-strike-a-literary-reckoning-in-refuse-canlit-in-ruins/
2016: “From Qallunaat to James Bay: An Interview with Mini Aodla Freeman, Keavy Martin, Julie Rak, and Norma Dunning.” Interview by Orly Lael Netzer, Rebecca Fredrickson, Brandon Kerfoot, and Katharine Meloche. Canadian Literature 226 (Autumn 2015): 113-124.
Research Resources
Research Resources
2025: Review of Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, Reading Auto/biography Now. 3rd edition. U. of Minnesota P., 2024 for a/b: Auto/biography Studies. 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1080/08989575.2025.2459497
2021: Blog post. "Pocket Queens: Poker, Women, Stories." Critical Gambling Studies. https://doi.org/10.29173/cgs100
2021: “Alterity,” “Autonomy,” “Popular Culture,” “Market,” “Labor.” Key Terms in Comics Studies. Edited by E.L. Cour et. al. London: Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 14-15, 27, 29, 106.
2016: “Life Writing.” Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Eva Marie Kroller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 239-260.
2015: "Canadian Life Writing." The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Cynthia Sugars. New York: Oxford University Press. 813-825.
2009: "The Doukhobors." The Canadian Encylopedia .
2009: "Recent Developments in Canadian Life Writing." Er(r)go: Theory, Literature, Culture special issue on Canadian Literature. Ed. and Trans. Eugenia Sojka. In Polish.
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