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Autobiographical Writing Across the Disciplines reveals the extraordinary breadth of the intellectual movement toward self-inclusive scholarship. Presenting exemplary works of criticism incorporating personal narratives, this volume brings together twenty-seven essays from scholars in literary studies and history, mathematics and medicine, philosophy, music, film, ethnic studies, law, education, anthropology, religion, and biology. Pioneers in the development of the hybrid genre of personal scholarship, the writers whose work is presented here challenge traditional modes of inquiry and ways of knowing. In assembling their work, editors Diane P. Freedman and Olivia Frey have provided a rich source of reasons for and models of autobiographical criticism.The editors' introduction presents a condensed history of academic writing, chronicles the origins of autobiographical criticism, and emphasizes the role of feminism in championing the value of personal narrative to disciplinary discourse. The essays are all explicitly informed by the identities of their authors, among whom are a feminist scientist, a Jewish filmmaker living in Germany, a potential carrier of Huntington's disease, and a doctor pregnant while in medical school. Whether describing how being a professor of ethnic literature necessarily entails being an activist, how music and cooking are related, or how a theology is shaped by cultural identity, the contributors illuminate the relationship between their scholarly pursuits and personal lives and, in the process, expand the boundaries of their disciplines.Contributors:Kwame Anthony AppiahRuth BeharMerrill BlackDavid BleichJames ConeBrenda DalyLaura B. DeLindCarlos L. DewsMichael DorrisDiane P. FreedmanOlivia FreyPeter HamlinLaura Duhan KaplanPerri KlassMuriel LedermanDeborah LefkowitzEunice LiptonRobert D. MarcusDonald MurraySeymour PapertCarla T. PetersonDavid RichmanSara RuddickJulie TharpBonnie TuSmithAlex WexlerNaomi WeissteinPatricia Williams

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Acknowledgments•ix Foreword• , xiii Self/Discipline: An Introduction   , 

 . 

CONTENTS

LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Finding the Right Word: Self-Inclusion and Self-Inscription•  ,  Gender Tragedies: East Texas Cockﬁghting andHamlet•  . ,  Three Readings of the Wife of Bath• ,  Listening to the Images: My Sightless Insights into Yeats’s Plays•  ,  Activist Academic: Memoir of an Ethnic Lit Professor•  ,  Following the Voice of the Draft• . ,  Notes of a Native Daughter: Reﬂections on Identity and Writing  . , 

HISTORY Tribute to Robert D. Marcus• ,  Journey/man: Hi/s/tory• . , 

RELIGION FromGod of the Oppressed

 , 

PHILOSOPHY Beyond Holocaust Theology: Extending a Hand across the Abyss   ,  Maternal Thinking• , 

AFRICANA STUDIES Altered States•  , 

ART HISTORY History of an Encounter

 , 

MUSIC Devouring Music: Ruminations of a Composer Who Cooks  , 

FILM When the Body Is Your Own: Feminist Film Criticism and the Horror Genre• ,  Filming Point of View• , 

ANTHROPOLOGY FromThe Broken Cord• ,  Juban Ameríca• ,  Close Encounters with a: The Reﬂections of a Bruised and Somewhat Wiser Anthropologist• . , 

LAW The Death of the Profane (a commentary on the genre of legal writing)• . , 

ENGLISH EDUCATION My Father/My Censor: English Education, Politics, and Status  , 

RESEARCH PSYCHOLOGY Adventures of a Woman in Science

 , 

BIOLOGY Through the Looking Glass: A Feminist’s Life in Biology  , 

MEDICINE That Disorder: An Introduction• ,  A Textbook Pregnancy• , 

MATH, PSYCHOLOGY, AND SCIENCE EDUCATION Personal Thinking• , 

Selected Bibliography Contributors•

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We thank, ﬁrst of all, our many contributors and would-be contributors, who have been more patient than it is reasonable to ask or expect. Ditto for Reynolds Smith, editor extraordinaire, Sharon Torian, Leigh Anne Couch, and Lynn Walterick. We also continue to be grateful to those many other scholars whose work anticipates, corroborates, complicates, and contem-plates the genre and methods represented by this volume. We deeply ap-preciate the advice and encouragement of the anonymous reviewers of this manuscript. Diane also thanks the College of Liberal Arts of the University of New Hampshire for funding from the Richardson Fund of the Alumni Annual Gifts Funds; the Center for the Humanities and Burt Feintuch, for addi-tional funding; Dee-Ann Dickson and Stormy Gleason for technical sup-port; and the Department of English, including especially Rochelle Lieber, Rachel Trubowitz, Brigitte Bailey, Tory Poulin, Lisa Feldman, Clare Sulli-van, and Jennifer Dube, for various kinds of support. This book would also not have been possible without the support—emotional, intellectual, and/or technical—of Brian and Abraham McWilliams, Martha Stoddard Holmes, Lynn Bloom, Susan Rosen, and Suzanne MacDonald. Thanks also to Jill Gussow.

The following selections have appeared in other books or journals. Grateful acknowledgment is made to the publishers, agents, and authors for permis-sion to reprint them here: ‘‘Altered States’’ fromIn My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Cul-

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