Founded in 1998 and co-directed by Professors Susan
Leonardi (English) and John Caughey
(American Studies), the Life Writing Project brings together graduate
students and faculty from programs across the campus (including Anthropology,
Journalism, Human Development, Comparative Literature, English, and American
Studies) and beyond who are interested in the cultural study of individual
lives. We are exploring issues in our different yet often parallel work
doing cultural biography, memoir, life history, person-centered ethnography,
and oral history. We are particularly concerned with how to better research
and represent the ways our individual subjects negotiate the complexities
of their cultural locations, including the intersection of race, gender,
ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, and other dimensions of difference.
We are also interested in how the iindividual researcher's own social
and cultural locations influence the research process and how to represent
this aspect of our research in the cultural portraits we create.
2001-2002 Activities
- "Dares to Stares: Disabled Women Performance Artists and the
Dynamics of Staring," a lecture and discussion led by Dr. Rosemarie
Garland-Thomson, Emory University.
- "From Memory to Memoir: A Life Writing Workshop" a workshop
directed by Dr. Sharon O'Brien, Dickinson College.
- Meetings to discuss members' work in progress.
Participants
John Caughey, American Studies
Susan Leonardi, English
Maurine Beasley, Journalism
Lynn Bolles, Women's Studies
Erve Chambers, Anthropology
John Daves, American Studies
David Eubanks, English & CTE
Judith Freidenberg, Anthropology
Beth Graybill, American Studies
Judith Hallett, Classics
Michael Hummel, American Studies
Bruce Johansen American Studies
Seung-kyung Kim, Women's Studies
Judi Moore Latta, Howard University
Raymond Martin
Saundra Murray Nettles, Human Development
Carla Peterson, English
Rebecca Pope, Georgetown University
Claudia Rector, American Studies
Donna Rowe, American Studies
Catherine Schuler, Theatre
Debbie Shaller, Towson University
Martha Nell Smith, English
Nikki Stewart, Women's Studies
Dabrina Taylor, UMBC
Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Emory University
Sarah Tillery, Women's Studies
Nancy Traubitz, Center for Renaissance & Baroque Studies
Judith Tydings, American Studies
Neela Vaswani, American Studies
Mary Helen Washington, English
Joshua Woodfork, Skidmore College
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