Academic Lives - Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today

Informationen zum Autor Cynthia G. Franklin is a professor of English at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, and coeditor of the journal "Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly." Her publications include "Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies" and "Personal Effects: The Testimonial Uses of Life Writing," a special issue of "Biography" that she coedited with Laura E. Lyons. Klappentext Since the early 1990s, there has been a proliferation of memoirs by tenured humanities professors. Based on close readings of memoirs by such academics as Michael Berube, Cathy Davidson, Jane Gallop, Eve Sedgwick, Jane Tompkins, and Marianne Torgovnick, this title considers why so many professors write memoirs and what cultural capital they carry.

Product details

• Authors: Cynthia Franklin, Cynthia G Franklin, Cynthia G. Franklin
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2009
• EAN: 9780820333434
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3343-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system