1: Paul Arthur is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. He was previously Deputy Director of the ANU Centre for European Studies, a joint-funded special initiative of the European Commission and the Australian National University. From 2010-13 he was Deputy Director of the National Centre of Biography, ANU, and Deputy General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has published widely in fields of history, literature, communication and cultural studies, and has held fellowships in Australia, Europe and North America.
2: Sidonie Smith is Mary Fair Croushore Professor of the Humanities and Director of the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. She is a past-President of the Modern Language Association of America (2010). Her most recent books include the second, expanded edition of Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives (with Julia Watson, University of Minnesota, 2010); and Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition (with Kay Schaffer, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).
Joanne Leonard is Diane M. Kirkpatrick and Griselda Pollock Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of the School of Art and Design and Department of Women's Studies at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Her photographs and photo collages appear in such texts as Janson's History of Art and Gardner's Art through the Ages and her work is part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the Detroit Institute of Art, among others.
2 and 4: Ricia Anne Chansky is the co-editor of a|b: Auto|Biography Studies. She is the co-convener of the international symposium, “Auto|Biography across the Americas: Reading beyond Geographic and Cultural Divides,” which was instrumental in founding the International Auto|Biography Association – Chapter of the Americas and serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for this chapter. She is an Assistant Professor of literature and writing at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez where she teaches Caribbean literatures.
3: Maria Tamboukou (BA, MA, PhD) is Professor of Feminist Studies and co-director of the Centre for Narrative Research at the University of East London, UK. Her research activity develops in the areas of critical feminisms, auto/biographical narratives and foucauldian and deleuzian analytics. Writing feminist genealogies is the central focus of her work.
5: Jessica Wells Cantiello, Ph.D., is a lecturer in the Writing Program at the University of Southern California. Her essays have appeared in MELUS (Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States), Prose Studies, and Antipodas, and she has an article forthcoming in African American Review. She is currently working on a book about the history of American teacher memoirs.
6: Lee-Von Kim is Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Autobiography in Comparative Perspective at the University of Oxford. Her current research focuses on the intersection of life writing and photography.
7: Cynthia Huff is best known for her contributions to the study of women's diaries, which resulted in British Women's Diaries (AMS,1985), Women's Life Writing and Imagined Communities (Routledge, 2005), and Inscribing the Daily (U of Massachusetts P, 1996) co-edited with Suzanne Bunkers. She is Professor of English Studies at Illinois State University where she teaches courses in life writing, Victorian literature and culture, women's writing, and feminisms; she is also currently interested in animalographies.
8: Elisabeth El Refaie is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK. The focus of her research is on new literacies and visual/multimodal forms of metaphor, narrative, and humor. She is the author of Autobiographical Comics: Life Writing in Pictures (2012) and her articles have appeared in a range of journals and edited volumes.
9: Deborah M. Fratz teaches nineteenth-century British Literature and writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
10: Sarah J. Heidt is associate professor of English at Kenyon College, where she teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature and culture, auto/biography and life-writing, and literatures of memory. She has published research on Victorian life-writing in Victorian Studies and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. Her more recent work focuses on film adaptations of memoirs; her essay on The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly has appeared in the journal Adaptation.