AJ25042 Life Between Lines: Alternative Auto/Biography

                                        Mondays 13.20-14.50

           Course coordinator: Dr. Martina Horáková, office 3009, mhorakov@phil.muni.cz



Week 1, Sept 27

Introduction to auto/biography studies, course policies and assignments

Dr. Martina Horáková


Week 2, Oct 4

Autobiography and Environmental Aspects:

Emily Carr, from Klee Wyck (1941) and The Book of Small (1942), and Emma Bell Miles, from The
Spirit of the Mountains (1905)

Dr. Kateřina Prajznerová


Week 3, Oct 11

“New Genres, New Subjects: Women, Gender and Autobiography after 2000”

Guest speaker: Prof. Sidonie Smith, University of Michigan, USA


Week 4, Oct 18

Autobiography and Feminist Geography:

Kim Mahood, from Craft for a Dry Lake (2000)

Dr. Martina Horáková


Week 5, Oct 25

Autobiography and Trauma/Confession:

Janice Williamson, Cry Baby (1998)

Guest lecture: Dr. Zuzanna Szatanik, University of Katowice, Poland


!Oct 28-30: students are required to attend the conference “Living Between the Lines: Transgressive
(Auto)Biography as Genre and Method”

students write a 2-page report on workshops/sessions they attended


Week 6, Nov 1

Edwardian Biography:

Virginia Woolf, from Flush: A Biography (1933)

Dr. Michael Kaylor


Week 7, Nov 8

Fictional Biographies and Biographical Fictions:

Peter Ackroyd, from Dickens (1990) and The Great Fire of London (1982)

Dr. Stephen Hardy



Week 8, Nov 15

Reading week, no class


Week 9, Nov 22

Biography and Travel Writing:

William Bartram and Robyn Davidson, from Tracks (1980)

Dr. Kateřina Prajznerová a Dr. Martina Horáková


Week 10, Nov 29

Biography and Postcolonial Aspects:

Rita and Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita (1994)

Dr. Martina Horáková


Week 11, Dec 6

Biography, Colonialism and Environmental Poetic:

Paul Carter, “Light Reading” from The Lie of the Land (1996)

Dr. Stephen Hardy


Week 12, Dec 13

Conclusion and evaluation

Dr. Martina Horáková