Cynthia G. Franklin

Cynthia G. Franklin is a contemporary American literary and cultural critic. She is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Education and career

Franklin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]

Franklin teaches at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.[1]

Through her work, Franklin discusses life-writing, such as academic memoirs, which explores the inner workings of academia in the context of social issues. As co-editor of the journal Biography, she shapes the discussion of life-writing as a political and global genre.

Franklin's latest book-length work, Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press, 2009),[2][3] critiques strands of contemporary cultural theory—feminist, post-colonial, disability studies, and critical race studies amongst others—and scrutinizing memoirs written by such influential fellow critics as Edward Said and Jane Tompkins. Franklin's previous book Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997)[4] shows how feminist writers of the 70's and 80's pioneered the anthology as a unique form of narrating women's lives.

References
  1. "Cynthia Franklin (faculty profile page)". University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Retrieved February 1, 2023.
  2. WATSON, J. Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today. American Historical Review, [s. l.], volume 116, number 2, pages 413–414, 2011. doi:10.1086/ahr.116.2.413. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=60869264&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
  3. MULLEN, B. V.; RAK, J. Academic Freedom, Academic Lives: An Introduction. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, [s. l.], volume 42, number 4, pages 721–736, 2019. doi:10.1353/bio.2019.0074. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=144528198&site=eds-live&scope=site. Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
  4. BENEDICT, B. M. Writing Women’s Communities (Book Review). Modern Philology, [s. l.], volume 98, number 1, page 147, 2000. Disponível em: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=3589846&site=eds-live&scope=site . Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
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