Lynne S Mcneill
Biographic Data
| ID | 715336 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne S Mcneill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne S |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcneill |
| SIGNATURE | MCNEILL L S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7446-5180 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 48 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
Stories of the Self
Anna Poletti’s Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book is a book primarily about reading— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “reparative reading” and “overreading,” reading as theory, reading as meth
Legend Tripping
My friend posted it and that's good enough for me
One of the solutions proposed to mitigate the impact of fake news is to train readers to be more critical of the material they encounter. While critical research and reading are indeed important skills to teach, the study of legends shows us that our acquisition of information-even that which we might call "news"-often comes from informal, conversational sources rather than from activities that we would label "research." On social media, where th…
The End of the Internet
Heavy Lifting
Life narrative, as a practice or a theory, is a staple in various educational contexts. For instance, life narratives often play a complementary role in courses with a wider focus. First-year writi
Risky Business
In a series of short essays, leading auto/biography scholars reflect on their experiences teaching life narratives, considering occasions when things did not go according to plan. They remind us that “teaching lives” comes with particular perils, and share strategies for negotiating those challenges. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, ou…
Witnessing without Testimony
This essay examines administrative and pedagogical responses at one university to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, considering how such responses are made possible by the testimonial kairos of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In examining faculty's Truth and Reconciliation Commission “teaching stories,” the essay proposes “tertiary witnessing” as a potential new way of thinking about ethical …
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…
There Is No "I" in Network
This article analyzes Facebook profiles and accounts as instances of life writing that create simultaneously humanist and posthuman lives. Facebook members produce corporate selves in a collaborative auto/biographical act with the site's network-both its software and other members. This co-production of networked lives invites a reconsideration of how we read and create life narratives in an online context
Death and the Maidens
In this study, I focus on memorial responses to two crimes, the Montreal Massacre and Vancouver's so-called “Missing Women” serial killings, both large-scale, very public acts of violence targeted specifically at women. Comparing the memorializing of these mass murders, I analyse the complexities and the possibilities of contemporary memorial rhetoric and the issues of accessibility and legibility it raises; the gap between official and marginali…
Generic Subjects
This paper studies contemporary Canadian death notices, considering the relation of this form of life writing to the public sphere. A genre that intersects the public and private, personal and communal, the death notice constitutes a key site for examining contemporary cultural practices. Instances of what Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson call ‘everyday autobiographies’, death notices show ordinary citizens writing themselves and their loved ones i…
Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks
This article examines the diary's transformation from print culture practice to online phenomenon, considering the implications of this change for the diary as a literary genre and as life writing. This discussion explores the challenges the online diary represents to traditional concepts of the genre as private and monologic, investigating the ways in which online diarists attract readers, build communities, and create identities in cyberspace
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…
Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks
This article examines the diary's transformation from print culture practice to online phenomenon, considering the implications of this change for the diary as a literary genre and as life writing. This discussion explores the challenges the online diary represents to traditional concepts of the genre as private and monologic, investigating the ways in which online diarists attract readers, build communities, and create identities in cyberspace
My friend posted it and that's good enough for me
One of the solutions proposed to mitigate the impact of fake news is to train readers to be more critical of the material they encounter. While critical research and reading are indeed important skills to teach, the study of legends shows us that our acquisition of information-even that which we might call "news"-often comes from informal, conversational sources rather than from activities that we would label "research." On social media, where th…
Heavy Lifting
Life narrative, as a practice or a theory, is a staple in various educational contexts. For instance, life narratives often play a complementary role in courses with a wider focus. First-year writi
There Is No "I" in Network
This article analyzes Facebook profiles and accounts as instances of life writing that create simultaneously humanist and posthuman lives. Facebook members produce corporate selves in a collaborative auto/biographical act with the site's network-both its software and other members. This co-production of networked lives invites a reconsideration of how we read and create life narratives in an online context
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…
Death and the Maidens
In this study, I focus on memorial responses to two crimes, the Montreal Massacre and Vancouver's so-called “Missing Women” serial killings, both large-scale, very public acts of violence targeted specifically at women. Comparing the memorializing of these mass murders, I analyse the complexities and the possibilities of contemporary memorial rhetoric and the issues of accessibility and legibility it raises; the gap between official and marginali…
Generic Subjects
This paper studies contemporary Canadian death notices, considering the relation of this form of life writing to the public sphere. A genre that intersects the public and private, personal and communal, the death notice constitutes a key site for examining contemporary cultural practices. Instances of what Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson call ‘everyday autobiographies’, death notices show ordinary citizens writing themselves and their loved ones i…
Teaching an Old Genre New Tricks
This article examines the diary's transformation from print culture practice to online phenomenon, considering the implications of this change for the diary as a literary genre and as life writing. This discussion explores the challenges the online diary represents to traditional concepts of the genre as private and monologic, investigating the ways in which online diarists attract readers, build communities, and create identities in cyberspace
Generic Subjects
This paper studies contemporary Canadian death notices, considering the relation of this form of life writing to the public sphere. A genre that intersects the public and private, personal and communal, the death notice constitutes a key site for examining contemporary cultural practices. Instances of what Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson call ‘everyday autobiographies’, death notices show ordinary citizens writing themselves and their loved ones i…
Death and the Maidens
In this study, I focus on memorial responses to two crimes, the Montreal Massacre and Vancouver's so-called “Missing Women” serial killings, both large-scale, very public acts of violence targeted specifically at women. Comparing the memorializing of these mass murders, I analyse the complexities and the possibilities of contemporary memorial rhetoric and the issues of accessibility and legibility it raises; the gap between official and marginali…
There Is No "I" in Network
This article analyzes Facebook profiles and accounts as instances of life writing that create simultaneously humanist and posthuman lives. Facebook members produce corporate selves in a collaborative auto/biographical act with the site's network-both its software and other members. This co-production of networked lives invites a reconsideration of how we read and create life narratives in an online context
Witnessing without Testimony
This essay examines administrative and pedagogical responses at one university to the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools, considering how such responses are made possible by the testimonial kairos of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In examining faculty's Truth and Reconciliation Commission “teaching stories,” the essay proposes “tertiary witnessing” as a potential new way of thinking about ethical …
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…
Heavy Lifting
Life narrative, as a practice or a theory, is a staple in various educational contexts. For instance, life narratives often play a complementary role in courses with a wider focus. First-year writi
Risky Business
In a series of short essays, leading auto/biography scholars reflect on their experiences teaching life narratives, considering occasions when things did not go according to plan. They remind us that “teaching lives” comes with particular perils, and share strategies for negotiating those challenges. Exploring issues including teaching across genres, analyzing writing about trauma, decolonizing pedagogies, and challenging assumptions (our own, ou…
The End of the Internet
Legend Tripping
My friend posted it and that's good enough for me
One of the solutions proposed to mitigate the impact of fake news is to train readers to be more critical of the material they encounter. While critical research and reading are indeed important skills to teach, the study of legends shows us that our acquisition of information-even that which we might call "news"-often comes from informal, conversational sources rather than from activities that we would label "research." On social media, where th…
Stories of the Self
Anna Poletti’s Stories of the Self: Life Writing after the Book is a book primarily about reading— Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s “reparative reading” and “overreading,” reading as theory, reading as meth
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…
Art (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Narrative (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing (4 works)