Sidonie Smith
Tuesday, June 24 • 12:30–1:45 • Keoni Auditorium
Keynote Panel: Life Writing and Translations—Cross
Cultures,
Cross Purposes?
Biography
Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English
and Women’s Studies, and Chair
of the English Department at the University of Michigan. 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. Prof. Smith’s publications include
A Poetics of Women’s
Autobiography: Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation
(Indiana UP, 1987);
Subjectivity, Identity,
and the Body: Women’s Autobiographical Practices in the Twentieth
Century (Indiana
UP, 1993);
Getting a
Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography (co-edited with Julia
Watson, U of Minnesota P,
1996);
Writing New
Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe
(co-edited with
Gisela Brinker-Gabler, U of Minnesota P, 1997);
Women, Autobiography, Theory: A
Reader (co-edited with
Julia Watson, U of Wisconsin P, 1998);
Reading Autobiography: A Guide
for Interpreting Life Narratives (with
Julia Watson, U of Minnesota P, 2001);
Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth
Century Travel Narratives (U of
Minnesota P, 2001);
Interfaces:
Women’s Visual and Performance Autobiography (co-edited
with Julia Watson,
U of Michigan P, 2002);
Human
Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (with
Kay Schaffer,
Palgrave Macmillan, 2004);
Before
They Could Vote: American Womens Autobiographical Writing, 1819–1919
(co-edited with Julia Watson, U of Wisconsin P, 2006); and numerous
articles.