This series is ongoing. For the current programme, please see the Auto / Bio / Fiction Series page.
The 2022-23 programme included:
Michael Lackey, ‘Zora Neale Hurston and Thomas Mann: Moses Biofictions as Political Interventions’ and Virginia Rademacher, ‘Derivative Lives: 21st Century Spanish Biofictions in Speculative Times’, 27 October 2022. Read more about the speakers and their papers, and watch the video recording.
Hywel Dix, ‘Autofiction and Cultural Memory’ and Hanna Meretoja, ‘Metanarrative Life-Writing: Intersections of Life and Narrative in Autofiction and Biofiction’, 17 November 2022. Read more about the speakers and their papers, and watch the video recording.
Varsha Panjwani, ‘The Many Lives of Judith Shakespeare: Feminist Life-Writings’ and Laura Cernat, ‘Portraits of the Artist’s Wife in a Slanted Mirror: Reader, Mother, Lover, Sorceress’, 15 December 2022. Read more about the speakers and their papers and watch the video recording.
Anna Borgarello, ‘Of Adventurers and Storytellers: Narrations of the Self and the Other in Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone and Limonov by Emmanuel Carrère’ and Riccardo Castellana ‘Biofiction in Italy: Typologies, Traditions and Reception’, 26 January 2023. Read more about the speakers and their papers and watch the video recording.
Lorenzo Marchese, ‘A Brief History of Italian Autofiction’ and Julia Kritsikokas, ‘The Writing of Trauma in French Women’s Autofiction: Annie Ernaux and Nina Yargekov’, 9 March 2023. Read more about the speakers and their papers and watch the video recording.
The series culminated in the one-day Auto / Bio / Fiction in Practice: A Symposium, on 8 June 2023, a multi-disciplinary inquiry into the critical and creative practices of autofiction, biofiction and their neighbouring genres. Click on the title to find out more and watch the recording of the event.
