Spring 2027

Autobiography

Investigates the genre of autobiography in historical, cultural, and literary contexts, highlighting Nordic authors and analyzing writing through lenses of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Helen Durst

Summary

What you’ll be able to do

  • Explain autobiography as a genre in a historical, a cultural, and a literary context.

  • Apply theoretical terms to the analysis of autobiographies and autobiographical acts.

  • Historicize and contextualize concepts such as “fiction” “self” and “truth.”

  • Analyze the complex relationship between form and content.

  • Interpret autobiography in relation to gendered and racialized myths and models of national identity.

  • Understand how autobiography pervades contemporary culture across media and materialities.

  • Enter into dialogue with autobiographical theory and conduct independent research on autobiographical writing.

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SCANDST 355

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Investigate the genre of autobiography in historical, cultural, and literary contexts, with a highlight of Nordic authors. Analyze autobiographical writing in the context of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, while problematizing concepts such as "fiction," "truth" and "self."

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Topics

  • Autobiography as a genre in historical, cultural, and literary contexts, with a focus on Nordic authors.
  • Intersections of autobiography with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and concepts of fiction, truth, and self.
  • Relationship between autobiography and gendered/racialized myths of national identity.
  • Autobiography's presence in contemporary culture across various media and materialities.

Skills

  • Analyze autobiographical writing in relation to identity categories and theoretical concepts.
  • Conduct independent research on autobiographical writing.

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SCANDST 355 · Spring 2027

Autobiography

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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