Three English Faculty Presenting at International Auto/Biography Association – Americas Conference

Tue. Apr. 11, 2017

Three English Department faculty are presenting at the bi-annual conference of the International Auto/Biography Association – Americas Chapter. The conference, titled Lives Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas: A Symposium in Honour of Marlene Kadar, will be held at the Centre for Feminist Research, York University, Toronto, from May 15-17, 2017.

The English Department presenters and paper titles are:

Candida Rifkind, “The Affective Topographies of Geneviève Castrée’s Graphic Life Narratives”

Kathleen Venema, “Drawing Lives Outside the Lines:  Age, Aging, Comics, and Care”

Doris Wolf, “The Suffering of German Girls in WWII: Rape and Rage in North American Women’s Kriegskinder Memoirs”

For more info: https://iaba-americas.org/future-conferences/