a/b: Auto/Biography Studies
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| Discipline | biographical scholarship, narrative analysis |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Edited by | Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle |
| Publication details | |
| History | 1985–present |
| Publisher | |
| Frequency | Triannual |
| Hybrid | |
| Standard abbreviations | |
| ISO 4 | a/b: Auto/Biogr. Stud. |
| NLM | Autobiogr Stud |
| Indexing | |
| ISSN | 0898-9575 (print) 2151-7290 (web) |
| LCCN | 91658655 |
| OCLC no. | 719444996 |
| Links | |
a/b: Auto/Biography Studies is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal on biographical scholarship and narrative analysis, and is the official journal of The Autobiography Society. It is published on its behalf by Routledge.[1] journal of The Autobiography Society. It publishes scholarly essays, reviews of academic books, essay clusters, and scholarly work on topics in life writing studies. The journal covers a range of life narrative practices, including autobiography, biography, biofiction, and autofiction.[2] It does not publish personal essays, memoirs, or quantitative/empirical research.[3]
The journal was established in 1985, following a conference on auto/biography studies hosted by James Olney.[4] Its founding editors were Timothy Dow Adams, William L. Andrews, Joseph Hogan, Rebecca Hogan, and Barbara Sher.[5] As of October 2025[update] the editor-in-chief is Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle (The College of New Jersey).[6]
Ruth Scurr, writing about autobiography studies in The Times Literary Supplement, described three journals in the field: a/b, Life Writing and Biography. Scurr characterizes a/b's spectrum of life writing studies as extending "beyond traditional conceptions of autobiography and biography to consider letters, diaries, scrapbooks, food memoirs and illness narratives, among other forms of testimony."[2]
In June 2025 the journal published a special issue to celebrate its 40th anniversary, with articles reflecting on its origins and development.[7] Volumes 24 (2009) through Vol. 28 (2013) are available on Project MUSE.[8]
Abstracting and indexing
[edit]The journal is abstracted and indexed in the MLA International Bibliography,[9] International Bibliography of Periodical Literature,[9] and Scopus.[10]
References
[edit]- ↑ "About the Journal". The Autobiography Society. 21 October 2023. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- 1 2 Scurr, Ruth (26 October 2018). "The part and the whole". Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ↑ "Aims and scope". a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Routledge. Retrieved 19 October 2025.
- ↑ Eakin, John (2015). "Remembering James Olney (1933–2015)". Biography. 38 (4): 465–478. doi:10.1353/bio.2016.0005. ProQuest 1783365722.
- ↑ "About this journal". a/b: Auto/Biography Studies. Routledge. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
- ↑ "Learn about a/b: Auto/Biography Studies". Taylor & Francis. Routledge. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- ↑ "40 Years of Auto/biography Studies: An a/b Anniversary Issue". A/B: Auto/Biography Studies. 40 (2): 311–492. June 2025. Retrieved 25 July 2025.
- ↑ "Project MUSE - a/b: Auto/Biography Studies". muse.jhu.edu. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
- 1 2 "a/b: Auto/Biography Studies". MIAR: Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals. University of Barcelona. Retrieved 2025-10-19.
- ↑ "Source details: a/b: Auto/Biography Studies". Scopus Preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 19 October 2025.