Publications
BOOKS
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/
Lénárd Sándor: Világok vándora [Alexander Lenard: Wanderer of Worlds]. Co-authored with Zsuzsa Vajdovics. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN 978-963-414-079-5
https://harmattan.hu/vilagok-vandora
EDITED VOLUMES
Un/Bound. Eds. Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 36.3. August 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/current
FORTHCOMING
Life Writing as World Literature, Eds. Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Ioana Luca. Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
Un/Bound. Eds. Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Routledge, 2024.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
Under review: "Redefining Borders in Jean Guerrero's Cross-Border Memoir Crux"
“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
“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
“Personal and Collective Memory in the Works of Svetlana Alexievich.” History & Memory. 32 (2) 2020. 78-109. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/763942
“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
“Mapping Lives Across Borders.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 32.3. Fall 2017. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08989575.2017.1338019
“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 Autobiography” Amerikastudien/American Studies. 2015: 60, 2/3. 275-292.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44071909
“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
“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
Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Introduction to Un/Bound. Eds. Lenart-Cheng, Helga, Megan Brown. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, 36.3. August 2022.
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/current
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 PUBLICATIONS
“Cressida Heyes: Anaesthetics of Experience: Essays on Experience at the Edge” (book review) Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. Vo. 43. No. 4. 863-867.
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/801174/pdf
“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
“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
“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
“Sándor Kányádi: In Contemporary Tense” (book review) Rattle, August 2013. https://www.rattle.com/in-contemporary-sense-by-sandor-kanyadi/
Preface to Sándor Kányádi: In Contemporary Tense. Iniquity Press and Irodalmi Jelen Könyvek. 2013.
“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.
“Jonathan Krell: The Ogre's Progress” (book review) The Rocky Mountain Review, Spring 2010.
“Gao Xingjian: The Case for Literature” (book review) The Rocky Mountain, 2009.