1st Edition
Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives
Introduction – Heavy Lifting: The Pedagogical Work of Life Narratives Laurie McNeill and Kate Douglas
1. Black Women and the Biographical Method: Undergraduate Research and Life Writing Shanna Greene Benjamin
2. Autobiographical Narratives: Pedagogical Practice as a Lifeline for Hospitalized Children Maria da Conceição Passeggi, Simone da Rocha, and Luciane De Conti
3. Multimodal Autobiographies as Sites of Identity Construction in Second-Language Teacher Education Gergana Vitanova
4. Autobiography in the Language Classroom Natalie Edwards and Christopher Hogarth
5. Embracing the Surface: How to Read a Life Narrative Jennifer Drake
6. Coming to Life: Teaching Undergraduates to Write Autobiography Lynn Z. Bloom
7. The Pedagogical Potential of Memoir in an Interdisciplinary Context Debra Parker
Forum: Teaching Fails
8. Risky Business: Teaching "Fails" in the Auto/Biography Classroom: An Introduction Laurie McNeill and Kate Douglas
9. Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail Julie Rak
10. Graphic Life Narratives and Teaching the Art of Failure Candida Rifkind
11. Learning with The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book in a Cultural Studies Course Sarah Brophy
12. "I Won’t Remember—for You": What Life-Writing Criticism and Theory Could Bring to the Autobiographical Writing Classroom Craig Howes
13. Teaching Fail: The Life-Writing Scholar’s Cameo Appearance Anna Poletti
Biography
Laurie McNeill is a Senior Instructor of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. She is the co-editor (with John Zuern) of Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of Biography; and has published in a/b: AutoBiography Studies, Identity Technologies: Producing Online Selves and Genres in the Internet.
Kate Douglas is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Creative Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide, 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 (with Anna Poletti, 2016).
