This circle of faculty writers from diverse scholarly disciplines began to meet for conversation and exchange of writing in the spring of 2006. While each faculty member is working on a biography or life writing project, the subjects range from poetry to mathematics, music to medicine. The exchange of perspectives across fields often leads to interesting connections and reflections. Common issues around research methods and challenges related to this genre also stimulate discussion. We gather about once a month over lunch or coffee during the academic year.

A very brief summary of the discussion is circulated after each meeting to everyone on our email list, so that those who have to be absent can retain a sense of the flow of the conversation. Those summaries are listed below. For more information, contact Amy Benson Brown at 404.727.5796, or abrow01@emory.edu.

Notes
June 18, 2008
April 22, 2008
March 12, 2008
January 29, 2008
November 15, 2007
September 18, 2007
August 21, 2007
May 3, 2007
March 27, 2007
February 13, 2007

Other Resources

University of Hawaii, Center for the Study of Biography
http://www.hawaii.edu/biograph/

Journal of Biography and Life Writing
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/biography/

Life Writing
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14484528.asp