Orly Lael Netzer studies life writing and ethics, focusing on practices of reading as bearing witness to literary and art-based testimony in contemporary Canadian culture. She is the Research Facilitator for the HM Tory Chair program for Life Writing at the University of Alberta, has co-edited special issues of Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, and has published work in Canadian Literature and Postcolonial Studies. Lael Netzer has also served as a member of the Canadian Literature Centre‘s executive board, and an editorial assistant for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.