John David Zuern
Biographic Data
| ID | 1355974 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John David Zuern |
| GIVEN NAMES | John David |
| FAMILY NAME | Zuern |
| SIGNATURE | ZUERN J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7617-1688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Life Writing at the Terminus
This essay examines the American glaciologist M Jackson’s While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change and The Secret Lives of Glaciers; the British glaciologist Jemma Wadham’s Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity; and the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water, all of which employ autobiographical discourse to convey the enormity of the climate crisis as it is manifested in the rapidly acce…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue
This introduction to the “Comic Lives” special issue of a/b examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and humor. Picking up on a common theme in the contributors’ essays, the authors focus in particular on how comedians draw material for their comic performances from personal experiences of trauma and employ the rhetorical strategies of comedy to enact stealth testimony. They turn to the work of comedians such as Bo Burnham, Oliver Doub…
Rev. of Facebook Society
I think it is fair to characterize Roberto Simanowski’s Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves as an elegy for a certain kind of autobiography: the more or less extended, intention
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International Year in Review
A new annual feature in Biography , the International Year in Review replaces our Reviewed Elsewhere section with a collection of short, site-specific essays by scholars from around the world on the year’s most influential publications in life writing in the countries, regions, and languages in which they specialize. Our inaugural International Year in Review includes entries from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, German…
Welcome to Anjoli Roy
Online Lives 2.0
Looking back to Biography ’s 2003 “Online Lives,” the coeditors reflect on continuities and analyze new developments in Internet-based auto/biographical production since the advent of Web 2.0. They outline recurring themes in the essays in Online Lives 2.0 , which include the merging of public and private life, online self-curation, the socioeconomic dimensions of online self-presentation, and the filtering and falsification of lives in social me…
My Own Thoughts in My Own Body’
Intimate Ephemera
Reviewed by: Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture John Zuern (bio) Anna Poletti. Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2008. 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-522-85565-4, $49.95. In her 2005 essay in Biography, "Self-Publishing in the Global and Local: Situating Life Writing in Zines," Anna Poletti offered life writing researchers an introduction to the complex autobiographical …
Online Lives
Throughout The Pain Journal, an account of the year prior to his death from cystic fibrosis on January 6, 1996, the writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan reflects on his intimate and sometimes turbulent relationship with the computers on which he composes his diary. For Flanagan, whose brutally direct art employs a range of recording and display devices to explore the aesthetics of the suffering body, the computer occupies a middle position …
Online Lives 2.0
Looking back to Biography ’s 2003 “Online Lives,” the coeditors reflect on continuities and analyze new developments in Internet-based auto/biographical production since the advent of Web 2.0. They outline recurring themes in the essays in Online Lives 2.0 , which include the merging of public and private life, online self-curation, the socioeconomic dimensions of online self-presentation, and the filtering and falsification of lives in social me…
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue
This introduction to the “Comic Lives” special issue of a/b examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and humor. Picking up on a common theme in the contributors’ essays, the authors focus in particular on how comedians draw material for their comic performances from personal experiences of trauma and employ the rhetorical strategies of comedy to enact stealth testimony. They turn to the work of comedians such as Bo Burnham, Oliver Doub…
My Own Thoughts in My Own Body’
Online Lives
Throughout The Pain Journal, an account of the year prior to his death from cystic fibrosis on January 6, 1996, the writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan reflects on his intimate and sometimes turbulent relationship with the computers on which he composes his diary. For Flanagan, whose brutally direct art employs a range of recording and display devices to explore the aesthetics of the suffering body, the computer occupies a middle position …
Online Lives
Throughout The Pain Journal, an account of the year prior to his death from cystic fibrosis on January 6, 1996, the writer and performance artist Bob Flanagan reflects on his intimate and sometimes turbulent relationship with the computers on which he composes his diary. For Flanagan, whose brutally direct art employs a range of recording and display devices to explore the aesthetics of the suffering body, the computer occupies a middle position …
Intimate Ephemera
Reviewed by: Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture John Zuern (bio) Anna Poletti. Intimate Ephemera: Reading Young Lives in Australian Zine Culture. Melbourne: Melbourne UP, 2008. 310 pp. ISBN 978-0-522-85565-4, $49.95. In her 2005 essay in Biography, "Self-Publishing in the Global and Local: Situating Life Writing in Zines," Anna Poletti offered life writing researchers an introduction to the complex autobiographical …
My Own Thoughts in My Own Body’
Online Lives 2.0
Looking back to Biography ’s 2003 “Online Lives,” the coeditors reflect on continuities and analyze new developments in Internet-based auto/biographical production since the advent of Web 2.0. They outline recurring themes in the essays in Online Lives 2.0 , which include the merging of public and private life, online self-curation, the socioeconomic dimensions of online self-presentation, and the filtering and falsification of lives in social me…
International Year in Review
A new annual feature in Biography , the International Year in Review replaces our Reviewed Elsewhere section with a collection of short, site-specific essays by scholars from around the world on the year’s most influential publications in life writing in the countries, regions, and languages in which they specialize. Our inaugural International Year in Review includes entries from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, Finland, France, German…
Welcome to Anjoli Roy
Privacy
Rev. of Facebook Society
I think it is fair to characterize Roberto Simanowski’s Facebook Society: Losing Ourselves in Sharing Ourselves as an elegy for a certain kind of autobiography: the more or less extended, intention
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to This Issue
This introduction to the “Comic Lives” special issue of a/b examines the dynamic intersection of life narrative and humor. Picking up on a common theme in the contributors’ essays, the authors focus in particular on how comedians draw material for their comic performances from personal experiences of trauma and employ the rhetorical strategies of comedy to enact stealth testimony. They turn to the work of comedians such as Bo Burnham, Oliver Doub…
Life Writing at the Terminus
This essay examines the American glaciologist M Jackson’s While Glaciers Slept: Being Human in a Time of Climate Change and The Secret Lives of Glaciers; the British glaciologist Jemma Wadham’s Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity; and the Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason’s On Time and Water, all of which employ autobiographical discourse to convey the enormity of the climate crisis as it is manifested in the rapidly acce…
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