Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
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For over forty years, Biography has been an important forum for well-considered biographical scholarship. It features stimulating articles that explore the theoretical, generic, historical, and cultural dimensions of life writing; and the integration of literature, history, the arts, and the social sciences as they relate to biography. Each issue also offers insightful reviews, concise excerpts of reviews published elsewhere, an annual bibliography of works about biography, and listings of upcoming events, calls for papers, and news from the field.
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Sponsor: Center for Biographical Research, University of Hawai‘i
Book Series: Biography Monographs
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1978 to present
Back content starting in 1978- Editorial Board
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Editors
Cynthia G. Franklin, Center for Biographical Research (CBR), University of Hawai‘i
Craig Howes, Center for Biographical Research (CBR), University of Hawai‘i
L. Ayu Saraswati, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Hawaiʻi
John David Zuern, Center for Biographical Research (CBR), University of Hawai‘i
Managing Editor
Paige Rasmussen, University of Hawai‘i
Book Review Editor
Caroline Zuckerman, University of Hawaiʻi
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Editors' Note
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Exvangelical (De)conversion Narratives and the Religious Politics of Spiritual Autobiography
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Psychoanalytic Readings of the Soul: The Birth of Psychography and the New Strategies of Psycholiterary Portraiture
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024"With Its Shadows Dominating the Brightness": Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother and the Subjects of AIDS History
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Between Genre and Medium: Hilda Tablet, Henry Reed's Fictional Metabiography for Radio
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024"Beyond the Front, Specificity Is Abandoned": Illustrating Backgrounds in Alison Bechdel's Fun Home
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Testimonial Imperative, Collective Autobiography, and Individual Stories of #MeToo on Twitter
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Biobibliographical Studies of Georgian Writers
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction ed. by Julia Novak and Caitríona Ní Dhúill (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Text and Image in Women's Life Writing: Picturing the Female Self ed. by Valérie Baisnée-Keay et al. (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024The Photographer as Autobiographer by Arnaud Schmitt (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024The Human Rights Graphic Novel: Drawing it Just Right by Pramod K. Nayar (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024New Forms of Self-Narration: Young Women, Life Writing and Human Rights by Ana Belén Martínez García (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Transnational Perspectives on Artists' Lives ed. by Marleen Rensen and Christopher Wiley (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction by Julie Rak (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Global Biographies: Lived History as Method ed. by Laura Almagor, Haakon A. Ikonomou, and Gunvor Simonsen (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Life Writing in the Posthuman Anthropocene ed. by Ina Batzke, Lea Espinoza Garrido, and Linda M. Hess (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Autobiography, Memory and Nationhood in Anglophone Africa by David Ekanem Udoinwang and James Tar Tsaaior (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Oral Forms of Nigerian Autobiography and Life Stories by Adetayo Alabi (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Dreams of Archives Unfolded: Absence and Caribbean Life Writing by Jocelyn Fenton Stitt (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina by Deanna Reder (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Minor Salvage: The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings by Stephen Hong Sohn (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Negotiating Racial Politics in the Family: Transnational Histories Touched by National Socialism and Apartheid by Barbara Henkes (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Dead Men Telling Tales: Napoleonic War Veterans and the Military Memoir Industry, 1808–1914 by Matilda Greig (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature by Rebecca Richardson (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Speculative Biography: Experiments, Opportunities and Provocations ed. by Donna Lee Brien and Kiera Lindsey (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir by Richard Lischer (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024Magical Habits by Monica Huerta (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024The Art of Identification: Forensics, Surveillance, Identity ed. by Rex Ferguson, Melissa M. Littlefield, and James Purdon (review)
Posted on Wednesday May 29, 2024 - Single Issues
- Volume 42, Number 1, January 2019
- International Year in Review: Annual Bibliography
- Volume 42, Number 1, January 2019
- Volume 41, Number 4, October 2018
- M4BL and the Critical Matter of Black Lives
- Volume 41, Number 3, July 2018
- Asian American Hip-Hop Musical Auto/Biographies
- Volume 41, Number 2, April 2018
- Interviewing as Creative Practice
- Volume 41, Number 1, January 2018
- On Prince: A Labor of Love, Loss and Freedom
- Volume 40, Number 4, October 2017
- International Year in Review: Annual Bibliography
- Volume 40, Number 3, July 2017
- General Issue
- Volume 40, Number 2, April 2017
- General Issue
- Volume 40, Number 1, January 2017
- Caste and Life Narratives
- Volume 39, Number 4, October 2016
- International Year in Review: Annual Bibliography
- Volume 39, Number 3, July 2016
- Indigenous Conversations about Biography
- Volume 39, Number 2, April 2016
- General Issue
- Volume 39, Number 1, January 2016
- The Verse Biography
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Canada in Context, 09/1981-
Clarivate Analytics–
Arts & Humanities Citation Index
Current Contents
Web of Science
De Gruyter Saur–
Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus
IBZ – Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen
Zeitschriftenliteratur
Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes- und
Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur
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Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/2001-
Academic Search Complete, 1/1/2001-
Academic Search Elite, 1/1/2001-
Academic Search Premier, 1/1/2001-
Academic Search: Main Edition, 1/1/2001-
Advanced Placement Source, 1/1/2001-
America: History and Life, 1/1/1978-
Current Abstracts, 1/1/2001-
Historical Abstracts (Online), 1/1/1978-
Literary Reference Center, 1/1/2001-
Literary Reference Center Plus, 1/1/2001-
Literary Reference Center: Main Edition, 10/1/2004-
MainFile, 1/1/2001-
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, 1/1/2001-
TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/2001-
Elsevier BV–
Scopus, 1999-, 1986-1988, 1984, 1980-1982, 1978
Gale–
Academic OneFile, 01/2000-
Advanced Placement Fine Arts and Music, 09/1981-
Book Review Index Plus
CPI.Q (Canadian Periodical Index), 01/2000-
Expanded Academic ASAP, 12/2000-
Fine Arts and Music Collection, 09/1981-
General OneFile, 01/2000-
General Reference Center, 09/1981-
General Reference Center Gold, 09/1981-
General Reference Centre International, 9/1981-
InfoTrac Custom, 12/2000-
InfoTrac Junior Edition, 03/2012-
InfoTrac Student Edition, 06/1985-
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Pop Culture Collection, 09/1981-
Popular Magazines, 12/2000-
Research In Context, 01/2000-
Science in Context, 09/1981-
Student Resources in Context, 09/1981-
National Periodical Library–
Guide to Social Work, Social Science and Religion in Periodical Literature (Online)
OCLC–
ArticleFirst, vol.15, no.3, 1992-vol.34, no.2, 2011
Electronic Collections Online, vol.20, no.2, 1997-vol.34, no.2, 2011
ProQuest–
Art, Design & Architecture Collection, 1/1/1996-
Arts & Humanities Database, 1/1/1996-
Arts Premium Collection, 1/1/1996-
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Core
Literary Journals Index Full Text
MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
Periodicals Index Online, 1/1/1978-10/1/2000
Professional ProQuest Central, 01/01/1996-
ProQuest 5000, 01/01/1996-
ProQuest Central, 1/1/1996-
Research Library, 01/01/1996-
STEM Database, 1/1/1996-
