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Oxford Centre for Life-Writing<br />
This was the second full year of OCLW, which is firmly establishing itself as a<br />
hub for research into auto/biography in Britain and further afield. It welcomed<br />
speakers who included psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, architectural historian Susie<br />
Harries, and art critic Alex Danchev speaking about his new biography of Cézanne.<br />
Its successful series of Weinrebe Lectures on Life-writing was themed around the<br />
relationship between life-writing and portraiture, and featured Stella Tillyard,<br />
Ludmilla Jordanova, Paula Byrne and Martin Gayford. OCLW also hosted a<br />
number of conferences, seminars and symposia, exploring areas including Tibetan<br />
life-writing, war and life-writing, comparative auto/biography, state bureaucracy,<br />
Leonard Woolf, and the role of life-writing in research into Alzheimer’s. One<br />
of the Centre’s notable achievements was the establishment of a new series of<br />
practical workshops, and our customary life-writing lunch seminar also continued<br />
successfully, with talks from historians Selina Todd and Alison Light, and literary<br />
scholar Oliver Herford. It gains by its association with graduate and postdoctoral<br />
researchers at Wolfson engaged in work on life-writing, including Nicoletta<br />
Demetriou, Grace Egan, Christine Fouirnaies and Oli Hazzard. Altogether, by<br />
means of its events, a burgeoning presence on-line (in a blog, discussion board<br />
and website), and by the establishment of visiting-scholar schemes and conference<br />
grants, it is bringing together a diverse and lively collection of researchers engaged<br />
in various exciting aspects of auto/biography.<br />
Rachel Hewitt<br />
Weinrebe Fellow in Life-Writing and Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow<br />
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