Publications


BOOKS

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age. University of Virginia Press, Dec. 2022. ISBN 9780813948393

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5758

https://www.amazon.com/Story-Revolutions-Collective-Narratives-Enlightenment/dp/0813948398/

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Zsuzsanna Vajdovics. Lénárd Sándor: Világok vándora [Alexander Lenard: Wanderer of Worlds]. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN 978-963-414-079-5

https://harmattan.hu/vilagok-vandora

 

EDITED BOOKS

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Eds. Un/Bound. Routledge, August 2024.

https://www.routledge.com/UnBound/Brown-Lenart-Cheng/p/book/9781032774749

 

In production: Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Ioana Luca. Eds. Life Writing as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming in May 2025.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/life-writing-as-world-literature-9798765107119/

 

EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Eds. Un/Bound. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 36.3. August 2021.

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/current

 

ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS

 

Forthcoming: Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Border Memoirs and Border Aesthetics: Redefining the Border in Jean Guerrero’s Crux.Journal of Borderland Studies.

 

Lenart-Cheng Helga. “Curating the Life of a Self-Curator: The Countess of Castiglione in the Mirror of Nathalie Léger” Crossways Journal, October 2021.

https://crossways.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/crossways/article/view/6788

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Personal Stories in Migration Museums and our Notions of Hospitality: A Case Study from the French National Museum of the History of Immigration” European Journal of Cultural Studies, 24 (5), 2021. 1-18.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/13675494211016849

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Personal and Collective Memory in the Works of Svetlana Alexievich.” History & Memory. 32 (2) 2020. 78-109. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/763942

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Wilhelm Dilthey’s Views on Autobiography.” Life Writing. Special Issue: Philosophy and Life Writing. Vol. 15. No. 3. 2018. 353-368.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14484528.2018.1475007?journalCode=rlwr20

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Mapping Lives Across Borders.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 32.3. Fall 2017. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2017.1338019

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Paul Ricoeur and the ‘Particular’ Case of Autobiography.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. 31:2, March 2016. 355-372. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2016.1138358

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “The Role of Indefinite Pronouns in Modeling Wholeness: Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s AutobiographyAmerikastudien/American Studies. 2015: 60, 2/3. 275-292.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/44071909

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard’s Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages.” Hungarian Cultural Studies. Winter 2014. Vol. 7: 337-349.

https://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/view/3

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Concepts of Simultaneity and Community in the Crowd-Sourced Video Diary Life in a Day.” Cultural Politics. 2014, Volume 10, number 1: 21-39.

https://read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-politics/article-abstract/10/1/21/25798/

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga and Walker, Darija. “Recent Trends in Using Life Stories for Social and Political Activism.” Biography. 34: 1, 2011: 141-179. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23541185

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Autobiography as Advertisement: Why Do Gertrude Stein’s Sentences Get Under Our Skin?” New Literary History 34, #1 Winter 2003: 117-131. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/39604

 

BOOK CHAPTERS AND ESSAYS

 

Forthcoming: Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Mapping Urban Spaces Through Personal Stories: Amsterdam RealTime, Story Maps and Deep Maps.” for the volume Amsterdam Urban Lives.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Ioana Luca. “Introduction,” Life Writing as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming in May 2025.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/life-writing-as-world-literature-9798765107119/

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. “Introduction” Un/Bound. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 36.3. August 2024: 515-521

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08989575.2021.2045744

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Wilhelm Dilthey’s Views on Autobiography” in Philosophy and Life Writing (Routledge, 2019). ISBN: 978-0-367-07806-5. 2019.

https://www.routledge.com/Philosophy-and-Life-Writing/LeMahieu-Cowley/p/book/9780367664282

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Ioana Luca. “Memories in Dialogue: Transnational Stories about Socialist Childhoods” in Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life, Eds. Iveta Silova, Nelli Piattoeva, and Zsuzsa Millei, New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. 19-40.

https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-62791-5

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “F. Scott Fitzgerald's Autobiographical Essays and the Problem of Over-Identification.” St. Johns Humanities Review, Perceptions of the Self and Society. March 2013.

https://stjenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/HR2013_Helga-Lenart-Cheng.pdf

 

SELECT OTHER WRITINGS


Forthcoming: Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Milbacher Róbert: Keserű víz (Bitter Water)“ (book review), Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Dec. 2024.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Cressida Heyes: Anaesthetics of Experience: Essays on Experience at the Edge” (book review) Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Vo. 43. No. 4. 2020. 863-867.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/801174/pdf

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Simone de Beauvoir: Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928-29” (book review). Women in French Studies, Vol. 28. 150-152. Fall 2020.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/775735/summary

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II” (book review). Slavonica. Vol 22. No. 1-2. 2018. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13617427.2018.1473102

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Alexander Lenard: Stories of Rome” (book review). Hungarian Cultural Studies. Vol. 8. 2015. https://ahea.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/ahea/article/view/197/340

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Ramona Ausubel: No One Is Here Except All of Us” (book review) The Rocky Mountain Review, Volume 68, Number 1, Spring 2014. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/547540/pdf

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Sándor Kányádi: In Contemporary Tense” (book review) Rattle, August 2013. https://www.rattle.com/in-contemporary-sense-by-sandor-kanyadi/

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. Preface to Sándor Kányádi: In Contemporary Tense. Iniquity Press and Irodalmi Jelen Könyvek. 2013.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Encyclopedia of the Sixties. A Decade of Culture and Counterculture. Volume 1. Eds. Baugess, DeBolt. December 2011.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Jonathan Krell: The Ogre's Progress” (book review) The Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 2010.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Gao Xingjian: The Case for Literature” (book review) The Rocky Mountain Spring 2009.

 

Lenart-Cheng, Helga. “Tony Davies: Humanism” (book review) The Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 2009.