Biography university of hawaii press
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Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly
About
For more than forty years, Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly has explored the theoretical, generic, historical, cultural, and practical dimensions of life writing. Once a year a formal, guest-edited special issue explores a topic of emerging critical interest, including most recently “After(Life) Narratives of #MeToo,” guest edited by Rebecca Wanzo and Carol A. Stabile. Biography also publishes insightful reviews and an annual bibliography of works about life writing. Our newest feature, the International Year in Review, invites contributors from around the world to produce concise essays on some of the most influential publications in biography, autobiography, memoir, and other forms of life writing, offering personal perspectives on global trends in the field.
Submission Guidelines
Unsolicited submissions to Biography are welcome. Texts should be double-spaced and approximately 5,000 to 9,500 words in length, including works cited lists and endnotes. Biography is now using the ninth edition of the Modern Language Association (MLA) Handbook for citations. Authors are welcome to submit their essays to Biography following MLA guidelines, or they can use another style and reference system with which they are m
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University of Hawaiʻi Press
Academic publisher
The University of Hawaiʻi Press is a university press that is part of the University of Hawaiʻi.
The University of Hawaiʻi Press was founded in 1947, publishing research in all disciplines of the humanities and natural and social sciences in the regions of Asia and the Pacific. In addition to scholarly monographs, the press publishes educational materials and reference works such as dictionaries, language texts, classroom readers, atlases, and encyclopedias.
The press is currently a member of the Association of University Presses.[2]
History
[edit]The press was established in 1947 at the initiative of University of Hawaiʻi president Gregg M. Sinclair. Its first publications included a reprint of The Hawaiian Kingdom by Ralph Kuykendall and Insects of Hawaii, by Elwood C. Zimmerman, both of which have become classics. Other enduring classics from its early years include the Hawaiian-English Dictionary, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Elbert, first published in 1957, last revised and enlarged in 1986, then reprinted 16 times; and Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands, by Gavan Daws, whose Press edition was first published in 1974 and reprinted 19 times.
In 1971, the University of Hawaiʻi
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