Routledge Auto/Biography Studies
About the Book Series
The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies book series publishes outstanding new work from preeminent scholars and emerging voices in autobiography, biography, life writing, life narrative, and identity studies. This series is an interdisciplinary project that maintains interest in all forms of auto/biographical narrative analysis related to understanding varied constructions of the self. While centered in literary studies and the larger field of the humanities, books in this series engage with scholars and theories from such disciplines as anthropology, biology, linguistics, pedagogy, psychology, and sociology, among others. The emphasis on exploring the innovative authors, genres, and methodologies of auto/biographical narratives appeals to scholars, students, and practitioners alike. Emerging from Routledge’s longstanding commitment to auto/biography studies, this series makes a substantial contribution to the burgeoning global study of lives and life stories.
Virginia Woolf in the French Imagination
1st Edition
By Monica Latham
June 30, 2026
This book explores a wide array of literary productions authored by French-speaking writers in which Virginia Woolf appears as a biographical subject or a fictional character. The ensemble of bio/fictional narratives reveals how Woolf’s ideas and ideals resonate with French authors and common ...
Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging
1st Edition
By Umasankar Patra
May 20, 2026
Christopher Isherwood and Edmund White engage with autobiographical genres and negotiate their queer subjectivity in radical ways. Queer Autobibliography: Acts of Reading and Ways of Belonging argues that this negotiation takes place in and through books: books they write, publish, help to publish,...
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Nadja Gernalzick, Edwina Hagen, Martijn Icks, Jennifer Keohane, Eric Shiraev
December 28, 2025
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics. The innovative collection is postdisciplinary, comparative, and transnational, with contributions on works from originally seven languages. ...
Psychoanalysis and Narrative: Literature, Film and Autobiography
1st Edition
By Jorgelina Corbatta
December 25, 2025
Psychoanalysis and Narrative analyzes narrative in literary fiction, film, and autobiography through different psychoanalytic lenses including gender and socio-cultural perspectives. This book aims to demonstrate how fictionists and film makers have intuitively developed – through their own ...
Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Grzemska
November 27, 2025
Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Women’s Autobiographical Literature examines women’s autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context. This volume focuses on the writers’ representation of their relationships with their mothers – many of them ...
Rape Narratives that Paved the Way for #MeToo: The Crack in the Wall
1st Edition
By Marta Fernández-Morales
August 11, 2025
This book examines a decade of rape memoirs produced by English-speaking women around the emergence of #MeToo as a global phenomenon. It argues that their auto/biographical praxis opened a crack in the long-standing wall of silence that the 2017 online campaign and its echoes, still resonating ...
Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided
1st Edition
Edited
By Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle
May 05, 2025
Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood is a collection of essays in which life writing scholars theorize their early-career, mid-career, and late-career experiences with the documents that shape their professional lives as women: the institutional auto/biography of employment letters, curriculum ...
Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity
1st Edition
By Xiaoling Yao
April 13, 2025
Drawing on recent studies on life writing, memory, the narrative turn, and psychology, Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrad’s autobiographical remembering and storytelling in...
Contemporary Second- and Third-Person Autobiographical Writing: Narrating the Male Self
1st Edition
By Christina Schönberger-Stepien
October 09, 2024
This book explores 21st-century uses of the second- and third-person perspective in Anglophone autobiographical narratives by canonical male writers. Through detailed readings of contemporary autobiographical works by Paul Auster, Julian Barnes, J.M. Coetzee, and Salman Rushdie, the study ...
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego
1st Edition
By Christopher Hogarth
May 27, 2024
Afropean Female Selves: Migration and Language in the Life Writing of Fatou Diome and Igiaba Scego examines the corpus of writing of two contemporary female authors. Both writers are of African descent, live in Europe and write about lives across Europe and Africa in different languages (French and...
Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back: Symptoms of Sincerity
1st Edition
By Charles Reeve
May 27, 2024
Reading life writing that runs from Tracey Emin, Faith Ringgold and Judy Chicago to Marie Bashkirtseff, Benvenuto Cellini and beyond, Artists and Their Autobiographies from Today to the Renaissance and Back investigates the intriguing doubled truths of artists’ autobiographies: truth in life and ...
Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web
1st Edition
Edited
By Cynthia Huff, Margaretta Jolly
May 27, 2024
Engaging Donna Haraway: Lives in the Natureculture Web explores the impact of major theorist, Donna Haraway, in such diverse areas as feminisms, Marxism, new materialism, science studies, posthumanism, animal studies, ecocriticism, digital media, and life narrative. The book shows how Haraway’s ...