In Conversation

‘A Good Biographer Does Not Take the Easy Way’. In Conversation with Monica Soeting

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.14.43041

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interview

Abstract

Monica Soeting co-founded the European Journal of Life Writing, and the European section of the International Auto/Biography Association (IABA). As a life writing scholar, her research explores the construction of individual, cultural and political identities through life writing. She was journal manager of the European Journal of Life Writing from 2011 to 2019, and before that she worked as an editor on the Dutch Biografie Bulletin, a journal of biography studies. Monica has also written the biography of Dutch author Cissy van Marxveldt and is currently working on a biography of queen Emma, who was queen regent of the Netherlands from 1890 to 1898. She co-edited, together with Marijke Huisman, Anneke Ribberink, and Alfred Hornung, the seminal edited volume Life Writing Matters in Europe.

Author Biography

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar is journal manager of the European Journal of Life Writing.

Published

2025-11-04

Issue

Vol. 14 (2025): EJLW

Section

In Conversation

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