Life Narrative and the Digital: Full cluster online now

2025-07-04

We are pleased to announce that the cluster "Life Narrative and the Digital", edited by Sandra Mayer and Timo Frühwirth, has been expanded with three papers and two editorials and can now be read in full at the European Journal of Life Writing website.

The cluster makes a timely contribution to the study of life narrative with a focus on the digital. Like all contributions to our journal, it is completely open access. The following content has been added to the cluster:

- Cluster introduction, "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer. 

- "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics"  by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu.

- "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia’s Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef

- "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi and Federica Spinelli. 

- A transcript of a roundtable discussion, "‘To Bring Them into Dialog’: A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" with Caitríona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager and Sandra Mayer.

Clusters are how we call 'special issues' at this journal. We thank the guest editors for their hard work and cordially invite you to read these and other works at the journal's website. 

Kind regards,

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar
Journal Manager