L’archive (re)dessinée : documents et souvenirs dans les bandes dessinées d’Alison Bechdel by Côme Martin

“…Within her autobiographical work, Bechdel uses many written documents, from family letters to dictionary extracts. …”
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Variations on the Themes of Netochka Nezvanova by Dagnė Beržaitė

“…The article suggests reading it in the context of the autobiographical works of Anna Grigorievna Dostoevskaya. …”
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Adventures With Mommsen by Brian Croke

“…These various adventures with Mommsen demonstrate how much the business of doing research and writing about any individual or topic has changed especially in the last thirty years. Essentially autobiographical in approach, this paper also highlights both the role and the limits of autobiography in understanding one’s own education and scholarly development. …”
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Du voyageur à la reporter, des proximités variables by Charlotte Biron

“…Travelers and journalists such as Buies or Roy use an autobiographical « I » establishing a sense of intimacy in counterpoint with the travel contingencies, the outside and the various encounters with strangers. …”
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To belong or not to belong : variations autour du mythe associatif chez Virginia Woolf by Stéphanie Ravez

“…Written in the same period, the autobiographical sketch ‘Old Bloomsbury’ goes back over the birth of the famous group of intellectuals to which the author’s name is closely connected. …”
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De la politique de la rue à la lutte institutionnelle : le témoignage de deux militantes à travers le livre politique by Ludivine Thouverez

“…Catherine Dorion of Québec Solidaire and Gala Pin of Barcelona en Comú are two examples of women, feminists, and activists, who decided to take up political office and recount their experiences of institutional life in the autobiographical works Les Têtes Brûlées and ¿Qué pinto yo aquí? …”
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« Certains lieux de la peinture », comme expérience ontologique, de révélation chez María Zambrano  by Camille Lacau St Guily

“…Through painting, as she testifies in several of her writings, among others in Algunos lugares de la pintura, through her autobiographical essay, Delirio y destino, or in her text entitled “El idiota” and in all her essays dedicated to Velázquez’s “Niño de Vallecas”, María Zambrano lives personal and “privileged” experiences, with the being. …”
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The Early Days of Architectural Psychology in The United Kingdom: An Intellectual Autobiography by David Canter

“…The impact of particular areas of application, notably the study of human activities when caught in a building on fire, and other emergencies, facilitated the emergence of the concept of environmental roles and rules, which enriched the developing Psychology of Place theory. This autobiographical account leads to the unexpected involvement in the early 1990’s in contributing to police investigations. …”
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‘All is well’: The Construction of Martyrdom in the Diary of Emily Hawley Gillespie (1838-1888) by Claire SORIN

“…This extraordinarily voluminous journal, kept over three decades, was not meant to be a mere record of life and work but an autobiographical legacy destined to testify to Emily Gillespie’s intellectual abilities and domestic martyrdom in her slowly disintegrating home. …”
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La constellation comme pratique créatrice chez Virginia Woolf et Annie Ernaux by Suzel Meyer

“…This writing « in rhizomes » or rather in constellations shows the feminine et feminist culture of the authors and their partly autobiographical texts, and contributes to their feminist stance. …”
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In Search of Lost Lines: “Time Capsule” and the Epistolary Genre in Paul Auster’s Report from the Interior by Sara WATSON

“…Thus, he is able to question not only his self or himself, but the notion of the genre in which he is emmeshed, going so far as to uncover the possibilities of the hybrid nature of an autobiographical text which introduces a correspondence between two different versions of the author.…”
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Performer un mauvais genre : la demi-mondaine au XIXe siècle by Lola González Quijano

“…We would like to put into perspective the way in which demi-mondaines played the part of a licentious kind of women in order to exercise their activity with their autobiographical writing at the end of their lifes.…”
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Miria Contreras Bell (La Payita): Desafíos epistemológicos para una biografía by Élodie Lebeau

“…The analysis of the sources used, mainly interviews, press releases, and correspondence, complemented by testimonies taken from biographical and autobiographical studies of other actors, seeks to understand two fundamental and dialectically linked commitments in her life: art and politics. …”
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Tâhâ Husayn et Le livre des jours ; Démarche autobiographique et structure narrative by Luc-Willy Deheuvels

“…The choice of an autobiographical narration with literary aspirations was something new in Arab literature. …”
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Balisages et réactualisations d’un espace baltique dans The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen (1904) d’Elizabeth von Arnim by Claire McKeown, Kerstin Wiedemann

“…Elizabeth von Arnim’s semi‑autobiographical travelogue, The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen, combines humorous reflections on cross‑cultural interaction with vivid descriptions of the Baltic island of Rügen. …”
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Contemplation and social transformation: the example of Thomas Merton by P. Sheldrake

“…Merton, who often wrote through an autobiographical medium, gradually moved away from an early emphasis on contemplative withdrawal to a belief that the monastic life is a form of counter-cultural solidarity with those who struggle for social transformation and justice. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…Based on the novels (most of them semi-autobiographical) of some of these authors, as well as unpublished interviews, this paper aims to instruct the strategies of resistance and transgression of traditional gendered roles that these authors – and their characters – implement (sometimes with ambivalence and using orientalist and/or gendered stereotypes) speaking publicly on this topic related to intimacy.…”
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Being an assistant to a shaman by Tanka Subba

“…This article is built around the author’s experience as a shaman’s assistant. This autobiographical account touches upon the poverty, beliefs in ghosts, and shamanistic practices in a Limbu hamlet of Kalimpong, which is a piece of land between Sikkim and Bhutan. …”
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'n Hoofstuk in die (outo)biografie van die predikant (pastor?) by J-A. van den Berg

“…Voices from literature, those of various pastors (biographical) and that of the author (autobiographical) direct the process of Participatory Action Research and supply the text. …”
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Dr. Andries Albertus Odendaal Snr., evangeliedraer in 'n multi-dimensionele konteks. 'n Kort historiese oorsig en sendingkundige evaluering van sy lewe en werk (Deel 1) by P. Robinson

“…The advantage of such an autobiographical approach is that it unlocks valuable information, which would otherwise be passed unnoticed, leaving an incomplete if not skewed portrayal of some developments in the past. …”
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