Biofiction Studies

NEW SERIES: CALLS FOR PROPOSALS

Biofiction is literature that names its protagonist after an actual historical figure, and it has become a dominant literary form over the last thirty years, resulting in publications from global luminaries as varied as Gabriel García Márquez, J.M. Coetzee, Margaret Atwood, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, Laurent Binet, Peter Carey, Olga Tokarczuk, and Hilary Mantel. Bloomsbury’s Biofiction Studies series explores the history, rise, evolution, and nature of biofiction. Because it raises questions about the nature of the subject, of selfhood, on the ethics, politics and psychology of representations, on the relationships between what is perceived or constructed as factual and fictional, Biofiction Studies will be of interest to students and scholars in numerous fields, including philosophy, ethics, literary and genre theory.

Forthcoming Books: Ireland, the Irish, and the Rise of Biofiction by Michael Lackey | 9781501378478 | November 2021 | $120/£90

Series Editors: Lucia Boldrini is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She has published various articles and two monographs concerned with forms of auto/biographical fictions (Autobiographies of Others: Historical Subjects and Literary Fiction, 2012; and Biografie fittizie e personaggi storici: (Auto)biografia, soggettività, teoria nel romanzo inglese contemporaneo, 1998 [Fictional Biographies and historical characters: (Auto)biography, Subjectivity, Theory in the Contemporary English Novel]), and edited, with Julia Novak, Experiments in Life-Writing: Intersections of Auto/Biography and Fiction (2017) and, with Peter Davies, the special issue Autobiografictions: Comparatist Essays, of the journal Comparative Critical Studies (2004). She is a member of the Academia Europaea, and currently serves as Vice-President of the International Comparative Literature Association.

Michael Lackey is Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, USA, where he teaches courses about intellectual, political, and literary history. He has authored and edited ten books, mainly about biofiction. To advance the study of biofiction, he has edited two collections of interviews with famous authors of biofiction, including Joyce Carol Oates, Russell Banks, Julia Alvarez, Michael Cunningham, Olga Tokarczuk, Laurent Binet, Rosa Montero, Colm Tóibín, Emma Donoghue, and Colum McCann, and many others.

Monica Latham is Professor of British literature at the English Department of the Université de Lorraine in Nancy, France, and a specialist of Virginia Woolf and genetic criticism. She has published numerous articles on modernist and postmodernist authors. She is the author of A Poetics of Postmodernism and Neomodernism: Rewriting Mrs Dalloway (2015) and is currently completing a monograph on Virginia Woolf’s afterlives in contemporary fiction. She is the co-editor of the annual series Book Practices and Textual Itineraries (Editions Universitaires de Lorraine) and the co-editor of a new series Virginia Woolf’s Reading Notebooks (Brepols).

Have a proposal that would fit this exciting new series? Submissions can be sent to: Haaris Naqvi, [email protected] Lucia Boldrini, [email protected] Michael Lackey, [email protected] Monica Latham, [email protected]