FARMINGTON – The University of Maine at Farmington will present an international conference on “Autobiography as a Writing Strategy in Postcolonial Literature” in the Emery Community Arts Center on the UMF campus. The conference runs from 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m., on Thursday, May 2, and 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m., on Friday, May 3. The conference features presentations by scholars and experts in the field from UMF and universities around the world. It is free and open to the public.
Dr. Benaouda Lebdai, professor of colonial and postcolonial literatures at the Université du Maine in Le Mans has organized the program. He is currently in residence at UMF for a month-long position as a Libra Professor—a program that brings scholars of national and international prominence to University of Maine System campuses.
The two-day conference will feature more than a dozen papers presented by scholars from France, Cameroon, Tunisia, Russia, Canada, Swaziland and the United States. Sessions will be presented on autobiography and trauma, women’s autobiography, African autobiography and autobiographical writing in South Africa and the United States.
For a complete schedule of presentations please visit the website here.
This event is sponsored by the UMF Libra Professorship, the Office of the Provost and the Division of Humanities.
