Interview with Julie Rak: Personal Nonfiction, Memoir, Biography, and Life Writing
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Julie Rak (FRSC) holds the Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of English and Film Studies and is a Strategic Research Chair in Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. Her research focus is nonfiction, including books such as False Summit: Gender in Mountaineering Nonfiction (2021), Boom! Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market (2013), and Negotiated Memory: Doukhobor Autobiographical Discourse (2004). She is the co-author with Sonia Boon, Candida Rifkind, and Laurie McNeill of The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada (2022)…
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