Confirmed plenary speaker

 

Prof. Julie Rak, University of Alberta

 

Julie Rak is one the leading authorities in the field of auto/biography and life writing. Her academic interests include also genre theory, Canadian literature, popular culture and new media. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Her publications include:

 

 

2014:

Co-editor, with Anna Poletti. Identity Technologies: Constructing the Self Online. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.

 

2013:

Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

 

2012:

"Memoir, Truthiness and the Power of Oprah: the James Frey Controversy Reconsidered." Prose Studies 34.3: 224-242.

 

“Genre in the Marketplace: the Scene of Bookselling in Canada.” From Codex to Hypertext: Reading at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. Ed. Anouk Lang. Amherst: University of Massachussetts Press. 159-173.

 

2010:

“Identity’s Industry: Genre and Memoirs.” Autobiography and Mediation. Ed. Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 173-182.

 

“Insecure Citizenship: Michael Ignatieff, Canada, Memoir.” Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly 32.1 “Personal Narrative and Political Discourse” Ed. Sidonie Smith. 1-23.

 

2009:

Co-editor, with Jeremy Popkin. On Diary by Philippe LeJeune. Translated by Katharine Durnin. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.

 

2005: 

Editor, Auto/Biography in Canada: Critical Directions. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

 

2004:

Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse.Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press.