Forthcoming Articles :

"Venues of Storytelling: The Circulation of Testimony in Human Rights Campaigns." (with Kay Schaffer), forthcoming in Life Writing, 2005. (Australian Public Intellectual Network and the University of Queensland Press.)
"Belated Narrating: 'Grandmothers' Telling Stories of Forced Sexual Servitude During World War I." forthcoming in Just Advocacy: Women's Human Rights, Transnational Feminisms, and the Politics of Representation, eds. Wendy Hesford and Wendy Kozol. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005.
"Autobiographically Speaking: A Challenge to Narrative Theory." (with Julia Watson), forthcoming in Blackwell Companion to Narrative Theory, eds. James Phelan and Peter Rabinowitz. London: Blackwell, 2004.

Curriculum Vitae

Fields of Specialization:
Autobiography Studies
Narrative and Human Rights
Feminist Theories
Women's Studies in Literature

Additional Interests: Travel narratives, literature and memory, postcolonial literatures and theory.

Recent Publications:

Books

Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. Co-written with Kay Schaffer. New York: Palgrave, St. Martin's Press, 2004.

Reading Autobiography: A Guide to Interpreting Personal Narratives. Co-authored with Julia Watson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Moving Lives: Women's Twentieth Century Travel Narratives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.

Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body: Women's Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth Century. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993.

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

Where I'm Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1974.

Edited Books

Inter/Faces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance. Co-edited with Julia Watson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002.

The Olympics at the Millennium: Power, Politics, and the Games. Co-edited with Kay Schaffer . New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
2000.

Indigenous Australian Voices: A reader. Co-edited with Jennifer Sabbioni and Kay Schaffer. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1998.

Women, Autobiography, Theory: A Reader. Co-edited with Julia Watson. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.

Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe. Co-edited with Gisela Brinker-Gabler. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.

Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Co-edited with Julia Watson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

De/Colonizing the Subject: Gender and the Politics of Women's Autobiography. Co-edited with Julia Watson. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1992.

Recent Articles

"Conjunctions: Life Narratives in the Field of Human Rights." co-authored with Kay Schaffer. Biography 27.1 (Winter 2004).

"Sexuality and Dis-Sexuality in the International Regime of Human Rights." Literature and Medicine 23.1 (Spring 2004).

"'Land of the Free'?: Circulating Human Rights and Narrated Lives in the United States." (with Kay Schaffer). Comparative American Studies 3:1 (Fall 2003).

"Material Selves: Bodies, Memory, and Autobiographical Narrating." in Narrative and Consciousness, eds. Gary Fireman and Ted McVay. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 86-111.

"Introduction: Mapping Women's Self-Representation at Visual/Textual Interfaces." Co-authored with Julia Watson, in Inter/Faces: Women's Visual and Performance Autobiography in the Twentieth Century. Co-edited with Julia Watson (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).

"'Bodies of Evidence': The Weight of Subjectivity at the Interface." in Inter/Faces: Visualizing Women's Autobiography. Co-edited with Julia Watson. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002).

"Criticism and Theory since the 1950s: Feminism." Co-written with Julia Watson, in Encyclopedia of Life Writing, ed. Margaretta Jolly (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001).