Laura J Beard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5783817 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura J Beard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura J |
| FAMILY NAME | Beard |
| SIGNATURE | BEARD L J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6771-0822 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Call to Action
Gathering Stories for Community Action
In October 2021, the International Autobiography Association Chapter of the Americas (IABAA) presented an online conference "Stories of Change, Stories for Change," co-hosted by IABAA and the Faculty of Arts Signature Area "Stories of Change" at the University of Alberta (Canada). The conference featured speakers from across the Americas on autobiographical storytelling. The plenary panel for the conference featured four scholars in North America…
Teaching Feminisms
Teaching Feminisms:The Legacy of Sara Castro-Klarén Leila Gómez and Laura Beard In this essay, we underscore the work of Sara Castro-Klarén and her multiple contributions to feminist, intersectional, and decolonial scholarship in the Americas. Her publications, conference presentations, graduate teaching, and mentorship of early career researchers have had a far-reaching impact on the scholarship of the modern Latin American novel, literary and c…
Where the Centres Line Up
In this essay, the author discusses her work attempting to thread herself back into the narrative of a tiny Highland community on a rocky coastline on the northwest corner of Scotland, sharing a story that weaves in the Highland Clearances, an 18th century Gaelic bard, a 21st century ceilidh, immigration to the United States, the stories that get passed down, the stories that are lost, and the work of returning. She traces her family line from th…
Accurate History and Facts’ or Memoir
This essay explores how John S. McClintock’s Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: Accurate History and Facts Related by One of the Early Day Pioneers, originally published in 1939 and republished by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2000, is employed as a historical source by historians and in popular cultural contexts (including by scriptwriters for the HBO series ‘Deadwood’). The essay underscores palpable tensions in a text in which McClintock p…
Autobiographical Unveiling in the Dramatic Performances of Childhood
Concealing and Revealing
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Hemispheric Performance Studies scholar Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relations,” where attempt
Acts of Narrative Resistance
This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What makes Laura J. Beard's work distinctive is her pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different countries and traditions. Her section on metafiction focuses on works by Helena Parente Cunha, of Brazil, and Luisa Futoranksy, of Argentina; the family sagas e…
Intertexts
The Shattered Mirror
Reviewed by: The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature, and: The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980–1995 Laura J. Beard María Elena de Valdés. The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xii & 278 pp. Kristine Ibsen. ed. The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980–1995. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 204 pp. Rosario Castellanos…
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Intertexts
The Shattered Mirror
Reviewed by: The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature, and: The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980–1995 Laura J. Beard María Elena de Valdés. The Shattered Mirror: Representations of Women in Mexican Literature. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. xii & 278 pp. Kristine Ibsen. ed. The Other Mirror: Women’s Narrative in Mexico, 1980–1995. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997. 204 pp. Rosario Castellanos…
Acts of Narrative Resistance
This exploration of women's autobiographical writings in the Americas focuses on three specific genres: testimonio, metafiction, and the family saga as the story of a nation. What makes Laura J. Beard's work distinctive is her pairing of readings of life narratives by women from different countries and traditions. Her section on metafiction focuses on works by Helena Parente Cunha, of Brazil, and Luisa Futoranksy, of Argentina; the family sagas e…
Special Issue of Indigenous Autobiographical Writings in the Americas
Hemispheric Performance Studies scholar Diana Taylor has referred to a shared hemispheric reality of “tangled systems of expression, representation, and economic and power relations,” where attempt
Accurate History and Facts’ or Memoir
This essay explores how John S. McClintock’s Pioneer Days in the Black Hills: Accurate History and Facts Related by One of the Early Day Pioneers, originally published in 1939 and republished by the University of Oklahoma Press in 2000, is employed as a historical source by historians and in popular cultural contexts (including by scriptwriters for the HBO series ‘Deadwood’). The essay underscores palpable tensions in a text in which McClintock p…
Autobiographical Unveiling in the Dramatic Performances of Childhood
Concealing and Revealing
Where the Centres Line Up
In this essay, the author discusses her work attempting to thread herself back into the narrative of a tiny Highland community on a rocky coastline on the northwest corner of Scotland, sharing a story that weaves in the Highland Clearances, an 18th century Gaelic bard, a 21st century ceilidh, immigration to the United States, the stories that get passed down, the stories that are lost, and the work of returning. She traces her family line from th…
Teaching Feminisms
Teaching Feminisms:The Legacy of Sara Castro-Klarén Leila Gómez and Laura Beard In this essay, we underscore the work of Sara Castro-Klarén and her multiple contributions to feminist, intersectional, and decolonial scholarship in the Americas. Her publications, conference presentations, graduate teaching, and mentorship of early career researchers have had a far-reaching impact on the scholarship of the modern Latin American novel, literary and c…
Gathering Stories for Community Action
In October 2021, the International Autobiography Association Chapter of the Americas (IABAA) presented an online conference "Stories of Change, Stories for Change," co-hosted by IABAA and the Faculty of Arts Signature Area "Stories of Change" at the University of Alberta (Canada). The conference featured speakers from across the Americas on autobiographical storytelling. The plenary panel for the conference featured four scholars in North America…
A Call to Action
Art (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Narrative (5 works)