My publications explore the shifting forms through which personal and collective lives are narrated.
🏷️ memory · media · translation · genetics · personal and digital storytelling
Story Revolutions: Collective Narratives from the Enlightenment to the Digital Age
University of Virginia Press, 2022. ISBN 9780813948393
🏷️ collective narrative · life writing · digital culture · Enlightenment to digital age
🔗 Publisher | Amazon
Lénárd Sándor: Világok vándora [Alexander Lenard: Wanderer of Worlds]
Co-authored with Zsuzsanna Vajdovics. Budapest: L’Harmattan, 2016. ISBN 978-963-414-079-5
🏷️ Alexander Lenard · biography · multilingual life writing · Hungarian studies
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Life Writing as World Literature
Co-edited with Ioana Luca. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
🏷️ life writing · world literature · transnational studies · genre theory
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Un/Bound
Co-edited with Megan Brown. Routledge, 2024.
🏷️ life writing · borders · embodiment · form
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Un/Bound
Co-edited with Megan Brown. Special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 36.3, 2021.
🏷️ auto/biography studies · borders · constraint · relationality
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“Border Memoirs and Border Aesthetics: Redefining the Border in Jean Guerrero’s Crux.”
Journal of Borderland Studies, 2024, 1–19.
🏷️ border memoir · migration · aesthetics · Jean Guerrero
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“Curating the Life of a Self-Curator: The Countess of Castiglione in the Mirror of Nathalie Léger.”
Crossways Journal, 2021.
🏷️ visual life writing · self-curation · photography · Nathalie Léger
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“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.
🏷️ migration museums · hospitality · personal stories · public memory
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“Personal and Collective Memory in the Works of Svetlana Alexievich.”
History & Memory 32.2, 2020, 78–109.
🏷️ collective memory · oral history · Svetlana Alexievich · testimony
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“Wilhelm Dilthey’s Views on Autobiography.”
Life Writing 15.3, 2018, 353–368. Special issue: Philosophy and Life Writing.
🏷️ autobiography theory · philosophy · Wilhelm Dilthey · life writing
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“Mapping Lives Across Borders.”
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 32.3, 2017.
🏷️ mapping · borders · autobiography · spatial life writing
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“Paul Ricoeur and the ‘Particular’ Case of Autobiography.”
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 31.2, 2016, 355–372.
🏷️ Paul Ricoeur · autobiography theory · narrative identity · philosophy
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“The Role of Indefinite Pronouns in Modeling Wholeness: Gertrude Stein’s Everybody’s Autobiography.”
Amerikastudien / American Studies 60.2/3, 2015, 275–292.
🏷️ Gertrude Stein · pronouns · modernism · autobiography
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“A Multilingual Monologue: Alexander Lenard’s Self-Translated Autobiography in Three Languages.”
Hungarian Cultural Studies 7, 2014, 337–349.
🏷️ Alexander Lenard · self-translation · multilingualism · autobiography
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“Concepts of Simultaneity and Community in the Crowd-Sourced Video Diary Life in a Day.”
Cultural Politics 10.1, 2014, 21–39.
🏷️ crowdsourcing · video diary · community · digital life writing
🔗 Duke University Press
“Recent Trends in Using Life Stories for Social and Political Activism.”
Co-authored with Darija Walker. Biography 34.1, 2011, 141–179.
🏷️ activism · life stories · social justice · public narrative
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“Autobiography as Advertisement: Why Do Gertrude Stein’s Sentences Get Under Our Skin?”
New Literary History 34.1, 2003, 117–131.
🏷️ Gertrude Stein · autobiography · advertising · style
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“Mapping Urban Spaces Through Personal Stories: Amsterdam RealTime, Story Maps and Deep Maps.”
In Amsterdam Urban Lives. Routledge, 2025.
🏷️ urban life writing · story maps · deep maps · Amsterdam
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“Introduction.”
Co-authored with Ioana Luca. In Life Writing as World Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.
🏷️ life writing · world literature · introduction · transnational forms
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“Introduction.”
Co-authored with Megan Brown. Un/Bound, special issue of a/b: Auto/Biography Studies 36.3, 2024, 515–521.
🏷️ auto/biography studies · un/bound · theory · relationality
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“Wilhelm Dilthey’s Views on Autobiography.”
In Philosophy and Life Writing. Routledge, 2019. ISBN 978-0-367-07806-5.
🏷️ Dilthey · philosophy · autobiography theory · life writing
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“Memories in Dialogue: Transnational Stories about Socialist Childhoods.”
Co-authored with Ioana Luca. In Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life, edited by Iveta Silova, Nelli Piattoeva, and Zsuzsa Millei. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 19–40.
🏷️ socialist childhoods · memory · transnational dialogue · education
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“F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Autobiographical Essays and the Problem of Over-Identification.”
St. John’s Humanities Review, special issue on Perceptions of the Self and Society, 2013.
🏷️ F. Scott Fitzgerald · autobiographical essays · identification · authorship
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“Milbacher Róbert: Keserű víz (Bitter Water).”
Book review. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 47, 2024, 31–34.
🏷️ book review · Hungarian literature · contemporary fiction
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“Cressida Heyes: Anaesthetics of Experience: Essays on Experience at the Edge.”
Book review. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly 43.4, 2020, 863–867.
🏷️ book review · experience · embodiment · philosophy
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“Simone de Beauvoir: Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 2, 1928–29.”
Book review. Women in French Studies 28, 2020, 150–152.
🏷️ book review · Simone de Beauvoir · diaries · philosophy
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“Svetlana Alexievich: The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II.”
Book review. Slavonica 22.1–2, 2018.
🏷️ book review · Svetlana Alexievich · oral history · war
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“Alexander Lenard: Stories of Rome.”
Book review. Hungarian Cultural Studies 8, 2015.
🏷️ book review · Alexander Lenard · Rome · Hungarian studies
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“Ramona Ausubel: No One Is Here Except All of Us.”
Book review. The Rocky Mountain Review 68.1, 2014.
🏷️ book review · fiction · memory · Jewish studies
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“Sándor Kányádi: In Contemporary Tense.”
Book review. Rattle, 2013.
🏷️ book review · poetry · translation · Hungarian literature
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Preface to Sándor Kányádi, In Contemporary Tense
Iniquity Press and Irodalmi Jelen Könyvek, 2013.
🏷️ preface · poetry · translation · Hungarian literature
“Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
In Encyclopedia of the Sixties: A Decade of Culture and Counterculture, edited by James S. Baugess and Abbe Allen DeBolt. Volume 1, 2011.
🏷️ encyclopedia entry · 1960s culture · Ken Kesey · counterculture
“Jonathan Krell: The Ogre’s Progress.”
Book review. The Rocky Mountain Review, 2010.
🏷️ book review · French literature · criticism
“Gao Xingjian: The Case for Literature.”
Book review. The Rocky Mountain Review, 2009.
🏷️ book review · world literature · Nobel literature
“Tony Davies: Humanism.”
Book review. The Rocky Mountain Review, 2009.
🏷️ book review · humanism · literary theory