ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøÕ¾

Brown Bag Biography: Amy Carlson

We often ignore the mediations operating on life narratives, but these hidden or ‘hidden in plain view,’ mechanisms reveal the ever- changing strategies authors, artists, and even corporate social media platforms adopt to shape, control, or resist the auto/biographical in these texts. From the archivist’s gloved hands turning the diaries pages, to the hand wringing curator, to the programmer or user of snapchat, to the memorial selfie-taker, back to the archivist who may keep only 2% of the papers offered to them, I concentrate on the affordances and practices operating in several spaces where we find auto/biographical texts. Studying these mediations should therefore be a fundamental part of any reading of how we construct our identities and tell the stories of our lives.

Amy Carlson joined the University of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøÕ¾i at Manoa Hamilton Library faculty in October 2000 and currently serves as both the Collection Services Division Head and the Chair of the Serials department. She ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøÕ¾uated from the University of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøÕ¾i at Manoa in December 2019 with a PhD in English. Her dissertation received one of the two prizes awarded for the 2020 Biography Prize from the Center for Biographical Research.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8 AT NOON (HST) ON ZOOM MEETING ID: 980 4085 4112 / PASSWORD: FQSVB4

Event Sponsor
Center for Biographical Research , University of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøÕ¾i

More Information
Zoë Sprott, (808) 956-3774, gabiog@hawaii.edu, , Amy Carlson Brown Bag (PDF)