The Autobiography Society

For over thirty years, The Autobiography Society (TAS) has provided a forum for scholarship on autobiography, biography, life narrative, and identity studies, while encouraging scholars, students, and practitioners to explore the praxis between life narrative and interdisciplinary and multimodal studies.

The society publishes the journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies , three times a year as its primary means of expanding the scholarly discourse on life narratives in all its forms. The journal is dedicated to publishing academic essays analyzing life narratives that grow from a theoretical framework of auto/biography studies as well as exploring narrative collection and/or construction in its reoccurring segment, The Process. a/b enjoys an international reputation for publishing the highest level of peer-reviewed scholarship and draws from a diverse community of global scholars to publish essays that further the scholarly dialogue on historic and contemporary auto/biographical narratives.

In addition to publishing the journal, the society convenes scholarly programs such as the 2013 international academic summit, Auto/Biography across the Americas: Reading beyond Geographic and Cultural Boundaries, at which the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) – Chapter of the Americas was founded. The society also supports featured speakers at the global and regional IABA conferences and is the sponsor of the annual meeting of the MLA Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing.

Recent Posts

Check out Inés Garcia’s review of “Authorship’s Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author”

Check out Zakir Hussain’s review of “Kashmiri Life Narratives: Human Rights, Pleasure, and the Local Cosmopolitan” (Rakhshan Rizwan, New York and London, Routledge, 2022, 254 pp., £29.59 (paperback), ISBN 9780367499150)

Check out Ella Ophir’s review of “Templates for Authorship: American Women’s Literary Autobiography of the 1930s” out now in Volume 38 Issue 3!

Check out this insightful interview between Monika Browarczyk and Inga Iwasiów on autobiographical narratives and life writing in Poland.

Check out “Geopoetics and Geopolitics in Connie T. Braun’s Silentium and Other Reflections on Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred” by Dagmara Drewniak!