Cynthia G. Franklin
Cynthia G. Franklin is a contemporary American literary and cultural critic. She is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Education and career
[edit]Franklin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
Franklin teaches at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[1]
Through her work, Franklin discusses life-writing, such as academic memoirs, which explores the inner workings of academia in the context of social issues. As co-editor of the journal Biography,[2][3] she shapes the discussion of life-writing as a political and global genre.
Franklin's work, Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press, 2009),[4][5] critiques strands of contemporary cultural theory, including feminist, post-colonial, disability studies, and critical race studies as well as scrutinizing memoirs written by fellow critics as Edward Said and Jane Tompkins. Franklin's previous book Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)[6] focuses on the work of feminist writers of the 70's and 80's in pioneering the anthology as a unique form of narrating women's lives.
Publications
[edit]- Re-Placing America Conversations and Contestations: Selected Essays - Literary Studies - East and West (Contributor) (1993)[7]
- Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Wisconsin Press (1997)[8]
- Navigating Islands and Continents Conversations and Contestations in and Around the Pacific: Selected Essays (Contributor) (2000)[9]
- Re-Placing America: Conversations and Contestations (Literary Studies) (Editor) (2000)[8]
- Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press (2009)[8]
- Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level (Introduction) (2011)[8]
- Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea (2023)[10]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Cynthia Franklin (faculty profile page)". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
- ^ Jstor website, Cynthia G Franklin
- ^ Truthout website, Authors page
- ^ WATSON, J. Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today. American Historical Review, [s. l.], volume 116, number 2, pages 413-414, 2011. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.2.413 Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
- ^ MULLEN, B. V.; RAK, J. Academic Freedom, Academic Lives: An Introduction. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, [s. l.], volume 42, number 4, pages 721–736, 2019. doi:10.1353/bio.2019.0074 Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
- ^ BENEDICT, B. M. Writing Women’s Communities (Book Review). Modern Philology, [s. l.], volume 98, number 1, page 147, 2000. Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023
- ^ Blackwells website, Re-placing America
- ^ a b c d GoodReads website, profile page, retrieved 2023-10-25
- ^ Blackwells website, Navigating Islands and Continents
- ^ Fordham University Press website, Narrating Humanity
