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Natalie Bennett - Resurrecting
Our Foremothers:
My Hopes as a Biographer, Journalist, and Blogger
Natalie Bennett received her MA in Mass Communications from the University
of Leicester in 2001. Her thesis, “Putting the body into ‘cyberspace’:
imagining the experience of being an active agent in a wired world,” can
be found at http://www.journ.freeserve.co.uk/cyber/cyber1.html.
She has been a professional journalist for 17 years, and has consulted
and written for UN organisations on child labour, women’s health
and women’s rights. Her weblog is at http://philobiblion.blogspot.com/.
natalieben [at] journ.freeserve.co.uk
Elizabeth Willson Gordon - Romanticizing
Sylvia Plath: Feminism and Literary Biography
Elizabeth Willson Gordon is currently a PhD Candidate in the Department of English
at the University of Alberta. Her dissertation, entitled “Under the Imprint
of the Hogarth Press: Virginia Woolf and Material Texts,” explores the
significance of the material practices of the Hogarth Press for understanding
Woolf’s work and the Press’s place in publishing history. She also
currently teaches an introductory English class, “Language, Literature
and Culture.”
egordon [at] ualberta.ca
Stephanie Hammerwold - Writing Bridges: Memoirs
Potential for Community Building
Stephanie recently completed her master’s degree in women’s studies
at San Diego State University, where her thesis, “Writing in the Cracks:
Reclaiming Self and Community in Women’s Memoirs,” explored the ways
women are writing their lives and stories into existence in memoir. She is currently
based in Santa Cruz, California where she writes and has facilitated art and
writing workshops with domestic violence survivors and with women prisoners.
stephhammer [at] mac.com
Zohar Weiman Kelman - ‘Emergency
Regulations: Our Autobiography’: Shulamit Hareven’s Many
Days as Fictional Autobiography/Autobiographical Fiction
Zohar Weiman Kelman is a graduate student in the Department of Comparative Literature
at UC Berkeley. She was born and raised in West Jerusalem, where she completed
her undergraduate studies of Hebrew and Yiddish Literature at the Hebrew University.
She is interested in exploring interfaces of modern literature, Judaism, and
feminist theory. In her dissertation, she intends to focus on a comparison between
poetry written by women in Yiddish and Hebrew in the inter-war period.
zoewk [at] yahoo.co.uk
Tuija Saresma - The politics of reading the autobiographical
I’s: The ‘truth’ about Outi
Tuija Saresma is a PhD candidate at the Research Centre for Contemporary
Culture, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and works as assistant in Women’s
Studies at the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of
Jyväskylä, Finland. She is currently finishing her doctoral thesis
on subjectivity, art experiences, gender, and emotions in the autobiographies
about art by amateur writers. She is interested in the way experiences and
textuality are intertwined in autobiographical texts, and how subjects are
constructed and performed discursively in these stories. In her thesis, she
also ponders the effects of writing, the various forms of representing study,
and the ways of doing ethical feminist research.
tuansa [at] yfi.jyu.fi
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