Cher Philippe. A Festschrift for Philippe Lejeune

Philippe Lejeune: An American(ist)’ Appreciation

Authors

  • G. Thomas Couser Hofstra University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5463/ejlw.7.261

Abstract

A Festschrift for Philippe Lejeune

Author Biography

G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University

G. Thomas Couser retired in 2011 from Hofstra University, where he was a professor of English and founding director of the Disability Studies Program. He is the author of American Autobiography: The Prophetic Mode (Massachusetts, 1979), Altered Egos: Authority in American Autobiography (Oxford, 1989), Recovering Bodies: Illness, Disability, and Life Writing (Wisconsin, 1997), Vulnerable Subjects: Ethics and Life Writing (Cornell, 2004), and Signifying Bodies: Disability in Contemporary Life Writing (Michigan, 2009), as well as about fifty articles or book chapters. His latest book, Memoir: An Introduction, will be published by Oxford University Press in November 2011. He is currently writing a book about contemporary American “patriography” (memoirs of fathers by sons and daughters) and a memoir of his own father.

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2018-08-13

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Cher Philippe. A Festschrift for Philippe Lejeune