Wednesday 9 April, 12:30-13:30, 2025, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Conference Room The Edinburgh Life-Writing Network reading group this semester, kindly hosted by IASH, will be on the theme of writing ‘vulnerable lives’, particularly in the context of the medical humanities. We’ll discuss Thomas Couser’s ‘Auto/Biographical, Biomedical, and Ethnographic Ethics’, from Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics […]

Monday 9 October, 2.10-4pm, 2023, Teaching Room, Centre for Research Collections, 6th Floor of the University Main Library. As part of the James Tait Black Visiting Writer Programme, we are delighted that Amit Chaudhuri will speak to today’s Reading Group in person. Readings: Amit Chaudhuri, “I Am Ramu” (pdf can be provided), and Annie Ernaux, trans. Alison L. Strayer, The […]

Thursday 25 November, 2021; 2-3pm, Project Room. Michael Lackey, ‘The Bio-national Symbolism of Founding Biofictions’ (Auto/Biography Studies 31: 1). Chair: Alan Goodson (Edinburgh). This ELWN Reading Group will consider the ‘biofiction’,  and the relations between biography and fiction, through engaging with one of the formative critical voices on the genre. Proposed and led by Alan Goodson, whose […]

The inaugural reading group for ELWN will discuss Laura Marcus’s work, focusing on the ‘Introduction’ and the chapter ‘Auto/biographical Spaces’, from Auto/biographical Discourses.