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A SSHRC Insight Grant project (awarded 2021-2025) for a four-year research that aims to take stock of the field of literary biography in Canada in the past forty years.
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The project's goals are three-pronged: (1) to generate a literary-historical archive of materials on the philosophy and praxis of literary biography emerging from personal interviews with 15 Canadian biographers; (2) to theorize and analyze literary biography as it has developed in Canada since the early 1980s, by examining 20 representative case studies through the combined theoretical framework of auto/biography studies, genre theory, rhetorical criticism, and feminist affect studies; (3) to reach beyond academic audiences to readers of popular biographies, writers of family biographies, and biography publishers, providing them with a simple tool kit for processing biographical representations.
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