Digital and In/Visible Lives in Autobiographical Webcomics

An exploration of how autobiographical stories of illness, precarity, loss, and trauma are communicated and negotiated into public and digital spaces through webcomics.

About the author

Kate Douglas is a Professor in English at Flinders University, Australia. She is the author of Contesting Childhood: Autobiography, Trauma and Memory (2010) and the co-author of Life Narratives and Youth Culture: Representation, Agency and Participation (2016; with Anna Poletti). Her edited collections include (with Ashley Barnwell) Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies (2019). Kate is the Head of the Steering committee for the International Auto/Biography Association's Asia-Pacific chapter.John David Zuern is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa and a co-editor the journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. His recent work on life writing and digital literature has appeared in Comparative Literature and (with Laurie McNeill) in the volume Research Methodologies for Auto/Biography Studies (Routledge 2019).Anna Poletti is Associate Professor at Utrecht University and co-editor of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Their recent work on life writing includes Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book (2020), and the entry "Identity Technologies" for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature.

Product details

• Authors: Shannon Sandford, Shannon Sandford
• Assisted by: Anna Poletti (Editor), Kate Douglas (Editor), John David Zuern (Editor), Kate Douglas (Editor), Anna Poletti (Editor), John David Zuern (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 25.06.2026
• EAN: 9781350447578
• ISBN: 978-1-350-44757-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: New Directions in Life Narrative
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels, Graphic novels: history & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Graphic Novels: True Stories & Non-Fiction, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions