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Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives

Editorial

Editorial
The 2016 Hogan Prize
Pages: 1-4
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Introduction

Introduction
Heavy Lifting: The Pedagogical Work of Life Narratives
Laurie McNeill & Kate Douglas
Pages: 5-14
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Essays

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Black Women and the Biographical Method: Undergraduate Research and Life Writing
Shanna Greene Benjamin
Pages: 15-26
Published online: 21 Oct 2016
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Autobiographical Narratives: Pedagogical Practice as a Lifeline for Hospitalized Children
Maria da Conceição Passeggi, Simone da Rocha & Luciane De Conti
Pages: 27-38
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Multimodal Autobiographies as Sites of Identity Construction in Second-Language Teacher Education
Gergana Vitanova
Pages: 39-53
Published online: 09 Sep 2016
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Autobiography in the Language Classroom
Natalie Edwards & Christopher Hogarth
Pages: 55-65
Published online: 12 Sep 2016
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Embracing the Surface: How to Read a Life Narrative
Jennifer Drake
Pages: 67-74
Published online: 26 Aug 2016
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Coming to Life: Teaching Undergraduates to Write Autobiography
Lynn Z. Bloom
Pages: 75-86
Published online: 18 Aug 2016
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The Pedagogical Potential of Memoir in an Interdisciplinary Context
Debra Parker
Pages: 87-95
Published online: 09 Sep 2016
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Forum. Teaching Fails

Risky Business: Teaching “Fails” in the Auto|Biography Classroom: An Introduction
Laurie McNeill & Kate Douglas
Pages: 97-100
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Teaching Life Writing: Four Ways to Fail
Julie Rak
Pages: 100-104
Published online: 17 Oct 2016
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Graphic Life Narratives and Teaching the Art of Failure
Candida Rifkind
Pages: 104-106
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Learning with The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book in a Cultural Studies Course
Sarah Brophy
Pages: 106-111
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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“I Won't Remember—for You”: What Life-Writing Criticism and Theory Could Bring to the Autobiographical Writing Classroom
Craig Howes
Pages: 111-115
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Teaching Fail: The Life-Writing Scholar's Cameo Appearance
Anna Poletti
Pages: 115-118
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Rev. of We Shall Bear Witness: Life Narratives and Human Rights Edited by MEG JENSEN & MARGARETTA JOLLY
University of Wisconsin Press, 2014 313 pp., $29.95 (Paperback), ISBN 978-0-299-30014-2
Kate Douglas
Pages: 119-121
Published online: 29 Jul 2016
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Rev. of The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction, by ROBERT McGILL
Ohio State University Press, 2013 186 pp., $54.95 (Hardback), ISBN 978-0-814-21231-8
Tom Smith
Pages: 121-125
Published online: 09 Aug 2016
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Rev. of Contemporary Trauma Narratives: Liminality and the Ethics of Form, Edited by Susana Onega & Jean-Michel Ganteau
Routledge, 2014 264 pp., $145.00 (Hardback), ISBN 978-1-138-02449-6
Teófilo Espada-Brignoni
Pages: 125-128
Published online: 05 Sep 2016
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Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Pages: 129-133
Published online: 05 Dec 2016
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