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Marlene Kadar

Marlene Kadar is an associate professor in humanities and women’s studies at York University, and the former director of the graduate programme in interdisciplinary studies. Her publications include Essays on Life Writing, which won the Gabrielle Roy Prize (English) for 1992. Kadar’s research interests include the politics of life writing, especially as represented in survivor narratives; the construction of privilege and knowledge in women’s life writing; and, Hungarian and Romani autobiography and historical accounts, biographical traces and fragments.

Susanna Egan is a professor in the department of English at the University of British Columbia. Her most recent monograph is titled Mirror Talk: Genres of Crisis in Contemporary Autobiography.

Jeanne Perreault is a professor in the Department of English at the University of Calgary and is the author of Writing Selves: Contemporary Feminist Autography.

Linda Warley teaches in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo. She has published articles in journals such as Canadian Literature, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and Reading Canadian Autobiography, a special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing.

Books by Marlene Kadar

Broken Fiction

by (author) Marlene Kadar

Working Memory

Women and Work in World War II

edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault

Tracing the Autobiographical

by (author) Marlene Kadar & Susanna Egan
edited by Linda Warley & Jeanne Perreault

Haven’t Any News

Ruby’s Letters from the Fifties

by (author) Edna Staebler & Marlene Kadar

Working in Women’s Archives

Researching Women’s Private Literature and Archival Documents

by (author) Marlene Kadar
edited by Helen M. Buss

Missing Line, The

by (author) Marlene Kadar

Essays on Life Writing

From Genre to Critical Practice

edited by Marlene Kadar

Reading Life Writing

by (author) Marlene Kadar