Cynthia G. Franklin Explained

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,^{[2] [3]} she shapes the discussion of life-writing as a political and global genre.

Franklin's work, Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press, 2009),^{[4] [5]} critiques strands of contemporary cultural theory, including feminist, post-colonial, disability studies, and critical race studies as well as scrutinizing memoirs written by 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)^[6] focuses on the work of feminist writers of the 70's and 80's in pioneering the anthology as a unique form of narrating women's lives.

Publications

• Re-Placing America Conversations and Contestations: Selected Essays - Literary Studies - East and West (Contributor) (1993)^[7]
• Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Wisconsin Press (1997)
• Navigating Islands and Continents Conversations and Contestations in and Around the Pacific: Selected Essays (Contributor) (2000)^[8]
• Re-Placing America: Conversations and Contestations (Literary Studies) (Editor) (2000)
• Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press (2009)
• Diary of a Radical Cancer Warrior: Fighting Cancer and Capitalism at the Cellular Level (Introduction) (2011)^[9]
• Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea (2023)^[10]

External links

• University of Georgia Press website, Academic Lives
• University of Wisconsin Press

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cynthia Franklin (faculty profile page) . University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. February 1, 2023.
2. https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=Cynthia+G.+Franklin Jstor website, Cynthia G Franklin
3. https://truthout.org/authors/cynthia-franklin/ Truthout website, Authors page
4. WATSON, J. Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory, and the University Today. American Historical Review, [s. l.], volume 116, number 2, pages 413-414, 2011. Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
5. 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. Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023.
6. BENEDICT, B. M. Writing Women’s Communities (Book Review). Modern Philology, [s. l.], volume 98, number 1, page 147, 2000. Disponível em: Ebscohost website Acesso em: 31 January 2023
7. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Re-Placing-America-by-Ruth-Hsu-Cynthia-G-Franklin-Suzanne-Kosanke-University-of-Hawaii-at-Manoa-East-West-Center/9780824823641 Blackwells website, Re-placing America
8. https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Navigating-Islands-and-Continents-by-Cynthia-G-Franklin-author-Ruth-Hsu-author-Suzanne-Kosanke-author-Cynthia-Franklin-editor-Ruth-Hsu-editor-Suzanne-Kosanke-editor/9780824823658 Blackwells website, Navigating Islands and Continents
9. https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2796247.Cynthia_G_Franklin GoodReads website, profile page, retrieved 2023-10-25
10. https://www.fordhampress.com/9781531503734/narrating-humanity/#:~:text=author)%20Cynthia%20Franklin-,Cynthia%20G.,Multi%20Genre%20Anthologies%20(1994). Fordham University Press website, Narrating Humanity