Laurie McNeill

January 29, 2015

Laurie McNeill is a Professor of Teaching in the Department of English Language and Literatures at UBC. Her research in auto/biography studies focuses on the production and reception of life narratives and testimony in digital and archival spaces. She is co-editor (with Kate Douglas) of Teaching Lives: Contemporary Pedagogies of Life Narratives (Routledge, 2017), and, with John David Zuern, Online Lives 2.0, a special issue of the journal Biography (2015). Her most recent articles and chapters have been published in the journals a/b: Autobiography Studies and English Studies in Canada and in the collection Inscribed Identities (Routledge, 2019).


Works by Laurie McNeill

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Articles by Laurie McNeill

Performing Genres: Peggy Abkhazi's A Curious Cage and Diaries of War
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 89-105.

Book Reviews by Laurie McNeill

Rethinking the Diary
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Mordecai Richler. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010): 153-154.
  • On Diary by Jeremy D. Popkin and Julie Rak
Life Writing War World War II
Diaries that Schmeck
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 163-165.
  • Must Write: Edna Staebler’s Diaries by Christl Verduyn (Editor)
  • Beyond Recall by Lise Weil (Editor) and Mary Meigs
Life Writing
Moral of the Life Story
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 159-161.
  • The Ethics of Life Writing by Paul John Eakin (Editor)
Autobiography
Private Lives of Girls and Women
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Writers Talking. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 183 (Winter 2004): 107-108.
  • Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 by Laurie McNeill and Kathryn Carter (Editor)
Autobiography Biography
Context of Controversy
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Canadian Literature 180 (Spring 2004): 92-93.
  • The Rigoberta Menchu? Controversy by Arturo Arias (Editor)
Autobiography Nineteenth Century Twentieth Century Women's Literature
Life Recordings
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 176-177.
  • Hanna's Diary, 1938-1941 by Hanna Spencer
  • She Left Nothing in Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy Nineteenth-Century Women's Diaries by Amy Wink
Latin-American Life Writing
"Notes to Self"
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 174-176.
  • Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cahier, e?coute" by Christl Verduyn (Editor)
  • Hobnobbing with a Countess and Other Okanagan Adventures: The Diaries of Alice Barrett Parke, 1891-1900 by Jo Fraser Jones (Editor)
Autobiography Holocaust Life Writing Nineteenth Century World War II
Images of Selves
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Archives and History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 178 (Autumn 2003): 146-147.
  • Suspended Conversations: The Afterlife of Memory in Photographic Albums by Martha Langford
  • The Mirror: A History by Sabine Melchior-Bonnet and Katherine H. Jewett (Translator)
Subjects of Empire
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 201-203.
  • The Intimate Empire: Reading Women's Autobiography by Gillian Whitlock
History Oral Photography
Recovering Women's Lives
By Laurie McNeill
Published in Auto/biography. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 172 (Spring 2002): 149-151.
  • Working in Women's Archives: Researching Women's Private Literature and Archival Documents by Helen M. Buss (Editor) and Marlene Kadar (Editor)
  • The War Diary of Clare Gass by Susan Mann (Editor)
  • The Girl in the Picture by Denise Chong
Autobiography Life Writing Women's Literature

Book Reviews of Laurie McNeill's Works

Small Details of Life: Twenty Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996
By Laurie McNeill and Kathryn Carter
Reviewed in Private Lives of Girls and Women by Laurie McNeill