These articles reflect my recent thoughts about memoir and fiction, feminism and teaching.
A Backward Glance
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Spring 2017
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Elegiac Friendship: Notes on Loss
Feminist Studies. Special Issue: Women’s Friendships, 2016
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The Trauma of Diagnosis: Picturing Cancer in Graphic Memoir
Configurations, Spring 2014
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Remembering Anne Sexton: Maxine Kumin in Conversation with Diane Middlebrook
PMLA, 2012
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A Feminist Friendship Archive
Profession, 2011
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Getting Transpersonal: The Cost of an Academic Life
Prose Studies, 2009 (available here)
Starting Out in the Fifties: Grace Paley, Philip Roth, and the Making of a Literary Career
Contemporary Women’s Writing, 2009 (available here)
On Being Wrong
Profession, 2008
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Family Hair Looms
WSQ, 2008
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A Memoir of Feminism: An Interview with Nancy K. Miller.
With Jeffrey Williams, Minnesota Review, 2007
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I Killed My Grandmother: Mary Antin, Amos Oz, and the Autobiography of a Name
Biography, 2007
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The Entangled Self: Genre Bondage in the Age of the Memoir
PMLA, 2007
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Out of the Family: Generations of Women in Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis
Life Writing, 2007 (available here)
Women’s Secrets and the Novel: Remembering Mary McCarthy’s The Group
Social Research, 2001
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But Enough About Me, What Do You Think Of My Memoir?
Yale Journal of Criticism, 2000