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Autobiographical and Biographical Writing

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Urania Milevski
University of Bremen
2
Gabriela Glăvan
West University of Timişoara
3
Mieke Bal
University of Amsterdam
4
Kathrin Bachleitner
University of Oxford
5
Colton Valentine
Yale University
6
Lee Konstantinou
University of Maryland, College Park
7
Catherine Brist
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
8
Lucretia Rose McCarthy
University of Leicester
9
Rachel Newsome
University of Salford
10
Gemma Nisbet
Curtin University

Rising Stars Papers

1
Trauma in world politics: Memory dynamics between different victim groups
Journal of Peace Research|2024
14 cit.
2
The EU’s Normative Dissensus on Migration: How National Identities Shaped Responses to the European Refugee Crisis
Journal of European Integration|2024
13 cit.
3
Experimental Life Writing—Special Issue Introduction
Life Writing|2024
3 cit.
4
Objects as Armour; Objects as Container: Form and Thing-Writing as Means of Balancing Disclosure in Life Writing
Life Writing|2024
2 cit.
5
Inventing Reality: An Integration of Autobiographical Fiction with Jungian Psychoanalysis to Negotiate a Personal Experience of Trauma
Life Writing|2024
2 cit.
6
Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany: Cross-Cultural Freedoms and Female Opportunity
Style|2024
1 cit.
7
No Land to Give: Wartime Narratives and the Symbolic Value of Territory
Global Studies Quarterly|2025
1 cit.
8
Perpetual Rewriting: Sylvia Plath’s Biographies
Analele Universității de Vest Seria Științe Filologice|2024
0 cit.
9
The Belle Époque Queer Fairy Tale
Representations|2024
0 cit.
10
Illness as Character as Metaphor
ELH|2024
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Lena Wetenkamp
Universität Trier
2
Michael Hansen
University of Chicago
3
Philipp Lammers
University of Konstanz
4
Dan Sinykin
University of Notre Dame
5
Justin Hendricks
Film Independent
6
Jamison S. Bottomley
Medical University of South Carolina
7
Laurie Parsons
University of Leicester
8
Jarula M.I. Wegner
University of the West Indies
9
Emily Cuming
Scripps College
10
Mona Kasra
University of Virginia

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Introduction: Relations between Literary Theory and Memory Studies
Journal of Literary Theory|2022
33 cit.
2
Prevalence and Co-Occurrence of Psychiatric Conditions Among Bereaved Adults
JAMA Network Open|2024
19 cit.
3
Predictors of Stigma, Guilt, and Shame among Adults Bereaved by Fatal Overdose
OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying|2023
17 cit.
4
Autosociobiography: A Travelling Form
Comparative Critical Studies|2023
14 cit.
5
L’autosociobiographie, une forme itinérante
Contextes|2022
9 cit.
6
Bereavement in the Aftermath of Suicide, Overdose, and Sudden-Natural Death: Evaluating a New Measure of Needs
Assessment|2022
8 cit.
7
Bereavement-Related Needs and Their Relation to Mental Health Symptoms Among Adults Bereaved by Suicide and Fatal Overdose
Journal of Loss and Trauma|2024
6 cit.
8
Prospective relations between stigma, guilt, shame, posttraumatic stress and prolonged grief symptoms among overdose and suicide loss survivors
Journal of Affective Disorders|2025
5 cit.
9
Notes towards a historical, critical theory of memory constellations: Postcolonial nationalist memory in Michael Anthony’s <i>King of the Masquerade</i>
Memory Studies|2022
4 cit.
10
Avoidant and Approach-Oriented Coping Strategies, Meaning Making, and Mental Health Among Adults Bereaved by Suicide and Fatal Overdose: A Prospective Path Analysis
Behavioral Sciences|2025
3 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Arthur P. Bochner
University of South Florida
2
Emily Dickinson
Medical Research Institute of New Zealand
3
Robyn Fıvush
Emory University
4
Kathryn Church
African Institute for Mathematical Sciences
5
Jenny Wüstenberg
Nottingham Trent University
6
Emily Keightley
Loughborough University
7
Steven D. Brown
London Metropolitan University
8
Trevor Wilson
Virginia Tech
9
Julia Watson
The Ohio State University
10
Michael King
The Christie Hospital

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Autoethnography: An Overview
Social Science Open Access Repository (GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences)|2010
3k cit.
2
Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject
Digital Commons - University of South Florida (University of South Florida)|2000
2.4k cit.
3
The Emergence of Autobiographical Memory: A Social Cultural Developmental Theory.
Psychological Review|2004
1.6k cit.
4
Elaborating on Elaborations: Role of Maternal Reminiscing Style in Cognitive and Socioemotional Development
Child Development|2006
944 cit.
5
Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives
The Modern Language Review|2003
872 cit.
6
Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing.
Social Forces|1999
777 cit.
7
Analyzing Analytic Autoethnography
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography|2006
736 cit.
8
Mother-child conversations about the past: Relationships of style and memory over time
Cognitive Development|1993
688 cit.
9
Knowing and remembering in young children
Child Language Teaching and Therapy|1992
677 cit.
10
Gender Differences in Parent–Child Emotion Narratives
Sex Roles|2000
581 cit.

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