Coordinated Lives: Between Autobiography and Scholarship

Autobiografía lingüística: una aproximación a las elecciones de lengua de los lingüistas

“…En síntesis, la autobiografía intelectual o académica como género discursivo de la historia puede ser concebida y analizada desde múltiples aristas: en primer lugar, como un texto del que se puede extraer información sobre la vida de sus autores y, en segundo lugar, como testimonios de la evolución de la historiografía, puesto que constituyen fuentes documentales excepcionales para investigar las corrientes dominantes en un momento determinado. Así, las autobiografías académicas contribuyen tanto a la comprensión de fenómenos intelectuales como a hacer ciencia de una manera no convencional (Popkin, 2001;Aurell, 2008).…”

Latin@ advocacy in the hyphen: faculty identity and commitment in a Hispanic‐serving institution

“…In accordance with a critical autoethnographic performance approach involving co-participants (Popkin 2001), our processes of data collection and analysis were integrally connected. Specifically, we employed a dialogical analysis (Padilla 1993) to generate our narratives and then dialog about them.…”

The origins of modern academic autobiography: Felix Meiner'sDie Wissenschaft der Gegenwart in Selbstdarstellungen, 1921–1929

“…The twenty-eight volumes published and vigorously marketed by Meiner's firm between 1921 and 1929 constitute perhaps the largest and most ambitious programme of academic autobiographical reflection yet undertaken. Meiner invented a format -the single volume containing multiple autobiographical essays -that remains one of the most important ways in which academic autobiography is produced (Popkin 2001). An examination of Meiner's project, and particularly of its two volumes of historians' autobiographies, is essential to understanding the history of scholarly autobiography and the conditions under which academics turn to first-person writing.…”

“…The Meiner collection marked a departure in that it lowered the barrier to this kind of publication: it was no longer necessary to have the status of a Darwin or a Renan, or to have received major public recognition, to think of interesting readers in the details of one's career. As we have already noted, Meiner invented a new formula for autobiographical publication: the presentation in a single volume of several personal stories, 'coordinated lives' brought together under the aegis of an editor who took public responsibility for justifying the enterprise (Popkin 2001). This device protected the contributors against accusations of vanity: they were simply responding to someone else's flattering invitation.…”