Abstract Historically, language and literacy education has overemphasized the ability to listen, speak, read, write in one standard (Campbell, 2005; Clark, 2013) without taking personal, historical, contextual experiences into account. Undertaking autobiography writing as a critical reflexive practice, this study analyzes three transnational autobiographies or TLAs (Canagarajah, 2020) by each a...

In this article, we outline an original, creative method for capturing the multifaceted ways in which digital technologies shape social life. We a framework engaging participants writing and drawing techniques to support ‘meeting greeting’ their ‘algorithmic selves’. Algorithmic selves offer datafied reflections of individuals’ media use, represented through platform approximated advertising ca...

After a brief introduction of a cultural psychological perspective, this paper turns to the concept of self. The paper proposes to conceive of that reality to which the concepts of self refer as a narrative, employing especially autobiographies and other ego-documents in empirical exploration. After discussing some psychological theories about "self," the paper points out that they may well be ...

Autism narratives are not just stories or histories, describing a given reality. They are creating the language in which to describe the experience of autism, and hence helping to forge the concepts in which to think autism. This paper focuses on a series of autobiographies that began with Grandin's Emergence. These are often said to show us autism from the 'inside'. The paper proposes that ins...

In 2003, biophysicist and Nobel Laureate Maurice Wilkins published his autobiography entitled The Third Man. In the preface, he diffidently points out that the title (which presents him as the 'third' man credited with the co-discovery of the structure of DNA, besides Watson and Crick) was chosen by his publisher, as a reference to the famous 1949 movie no doubt, featuring Orson Welles in his c...

This past April I woke up suddenly from a frightening yet laughable little dream in which I couldn’t breathe because Governor John Engler, dressed in a power suit, was sitting on my naked chest. My dreams have always been this transparent; they would bore a psychotherapist. I knew immediately when I awoke what this dream was about. The next day I had an appointment with a professional photograp...