Society information

About 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.

Membership in The Autobiography Society

Annual membership in The Autobiography Society includes a print subscription to the scholarly journal, a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, which is published three times a year, online access to the current issue of the journal and full access to the digitized archives of a/b (starting with Volume 1, 1985 and running through the current issue), as well as access to other selected Routledge, Taylor & Francis journals.

The subscription year for all members runs from January to December. If joined part-way through the year, a subscriber’s membership will count for the current year and she or he will receive all of the journal issues published that calendar year.

Full membership(including a subscription to a|b: Auto|Biography Studies): £22, € 29, $35.

Members of The Autobiography Society enjoy the following benefits:

•A subscription to a|b: Auto|Biography Studies, including:

othree print copy issues per calendar year
oonline access to the journal’s archives through Volume 1, 1985

•Access to selected other Routledge, Taylor & Francis journals

To become a member of The Autobiography Society, please contact Routledge by email at [email protected] or by telephone:

United Kingdom +44(0)20 7017 5543

United States +215 625 8900 or +1 800 354 1420.

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