Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography
William L. Andrews, General Editor

During recent decades, the study of autobiography has come increasingly to the forefront of literary, cultural, and historical scholarship. In addition to its long-recognized value as a social and cultural document, autobiography now claims our attention as an index to the ways in which people conceive of and recreate history itself. Autobiography has become one of the chief challengers to standard notions of the literary canon. This series promotes the growth of autobiography studies in and across a variety of humanistic disciplines by publishing original work that employs a wide range of critical approaches to and definitions of first-person writing. In addition to original scholarly work, the series includes editions of primary texts that make a significant contribution to the tradition of autobiographical writing.

Please send all inquiries, and book proposals to: wandrews@email.unc.edu.


Titles in the Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography series:
Arranged by most recent


Sister
An African American Life in Search of Justice
Sylvia Bell White and Jody LePage
Spring 2013

How I Became a Human Being
A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
Mark O'Brien, with Gillian Kendall
Fall 2012

Graphic Subjects
Critical Essays on Autobiography and Graphic Novels
Edited by Michael A. Chaney
Spring 2011

A Muslim American Slave
The Life of Omar Ibn Said
Omar Ibn Said
Spring 2011

Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain
Second Edition
Edited by Michael Kiskis
Foreword by Sheila Leary
2010

Conjoined Twins in Black and White
The Lives of Millie-Christine McKoy and Daisy and Violet Hilton
Edited by Linda Frost
2009

Four Russian Serf Narratives
Translated, edited, and with an introduction by John MacKay
2009

Who Am I?
An Autobiography of Emotion, Mind, and Spirit
Yi-Fu Tuan
2009

Autobiography and Decolonization
Modernity, Masculinity, and the Nation-State
Philip Holden
2008

When “I” Was Born
Women’s Autobiography in Modern China
Jing M. Wang
2008

Writing Desire
Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography
Bertram J. Cohler
2007

Before They Could Vote
American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819–1919
Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
2006

The Secret of M. Dulong
A Memoir
Colette Inez
2005

Harriet Tubman
The Life and the Life Stories
Jean M. Humez
2005

The Blind African Slave
Or Memoirs of Boyrereau Brinch, Nicknamed Jeffrey Brace
Jeffrey Brace; as told to Benjamin F. Prentiss, Esq.
Edited and with an introduction by Kari J. Winter
2004

Maverick Autobiographies
Women Writers and the American West, 1900–1936
Cathryn Halverson
2004

Campaigns of Curiosity
Journalistic Adventures of an American Girl in Late Victorian London
Elizabeth L. Banks;
Introduction by Mary Suzanne Schriber and Abbey Zink
2003

The Text Is Myself
Womenís Life Writing and Catastrophe
Miriam Fuchs
2003

Voices Made Flesh
Performing Women's Autobiography
Edited by Lynn C. Miller, Jacqueline Taylor, and M. Heather Carver
2003

How I Became a Human Being
A Disabled Man's Quest for Independence
Mark O'Brien, with Gillian Kendall
2003

The Woman in Battle
The Civil War Narrative of Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Cuban Woman and Confederate Soldier
Loreta Janeta Velazquez
Introduction by Jesse Alemán
2003

Caribbean Autobiography
Cultural Identity and Self-Representation
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
2002

The Autobiographical Documentary in America
Jim Lane
2002

Diaries of Girls and Women
A Midwestern American Sampler
Edited by Suzanne L. Bunkers
2001

Illumination and Night Glare
The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers; Edited by Carlos L. Dews
2000

The Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb
An American Slave
Henry Bibb
With a new introduction by Charles J. Heglar
2000

Rosa
The Life of an Italian Immigrant
Marie Hall Ets
With a Foreword by Rudolph Vecoli and a new Introduction by Helen Barolini
1999

The Making of a Chicano Militant
Lessons from Cristal
José Angel Gutiérrez
1999

Jumping the Line
The Adventures and Misadventures of an American Radical
William Herrick
With an Introduction by Paul Berman
1998

Women, Autobiography, Theory
A Reader
Edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
1998

My Generation
Collective Autobiography and Identity Politics
John Downton Hazlett
1998

Forbidden Family
A Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941–1945
Margaret Sams; Edited by Lynn Z. Bloom
1997

Recovering Bodies
Illness, Disability, and Life Writing
G. Thomas Couser
With a Foreword by Nancy Mairs
1997

People of the Book
Thirty Scholars Reflect on Their Jewish Identity
Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky and Shelley Fisher Fishkin
1996

Intensely Family
The Inheritance of Family Shame and the Autobiographies of Henry James
Carol Holly
1995

American Lives
An Anthology of Autobiographical Writing
Edited by Robert F. Sayre
1994

Native American Autobiography
An Anthology
Edited by Arnold Krupat
1994

Witnessing Slavery
The Development of Ante-Bellum Slave Narratives
Frances Smith Foster
With a New Introduction
1994

Livin' the Blues
Memoirs of a Black Journalist and Poet
Frank Marshall Davis
Edited, with an Introduction by John Edgar Tidwell
1993

My History, Not Yours
The Formation of Mexican American Autobiography
Genaro M. Padilla
1993

The Zea Mexican Diary
7 September 1926–7 September 1986
Kamau Brathwaite
Foreword by Sandra Pouchet Paquet
1993

American Women's Autobiography
Fea(s)ts of Memory
Edited with an introduction by Margo Culley
1992

A Woman's Civil War
A Diary with Reminiscences of the War, from March 1862
Cornelia Peake McDonald
Edited, with an Introduction by Minrose C. Gwin
1992

My Lord What a Morning
An Autobiography
Marian Anderson
With a new Introduction by Nellie Y. McKay
1992

Authority and Alliance in the Letters of Henry Adams
Joanne Jacobson
1992

Journeys in New Worlds
Early American Women's Narratives
Edited by William L. Andrews, Sargent Bush, Jr., Annette Kolodny, Amy Schrager Lang, and Daniel B. Shea
1991

The Diary of Caroline Seabury, 1854–1863
Caroline Seabury; Edited with an Introduction by Suzanne L. Bunkers
1991

American Autobiography
Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Paul John Eakin
1991

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman
An Autobiography
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With a Foreword by Zona Gale and an Introduction by Ann J. Lane
1990

Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
The Chapters from the North American Review
Mark Twain
Edited by Michael Kiskis
1990

The Education of a WASP
Lois Mark Stalvey
1989

Spiritual Autobiography in Early America
Daniel R. Shea Jr.
1988

The Examined Self
Benjamin Franklin, Henry Adams, Henry James
Robert F. Sayre
1988


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