*. As I state in the Acknowledgments, after I finished a first draft of Mad Muse, I sent emails to
the memoirists (or their literary agents), asking them if they were interested in reading and …

The work of psychologist and author Lauren Slater has elicited strong reactions from both
medical professionals and disability studies theorists, ranging from criticism to high praise …

Within the larger scope of life narratives, illness narratives occupy a significant space both
as honest expressions of often silenced, marginalized experiences and medically important …

Narrative Posturing delimits the theoretical and practical effects of a hyper-form of authorial
self-characterization I call the author-index. Prevalent in US fictions since 1980, author …

In this thesis I examine contemporary life writing about mental illness published in the UK
and USA. I focus on memoirs that exceed and disrupt conventional narrative typologies of …