Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, USA. Her work appears in Life Writing , Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, The European Journal of Life Writing , Persona Studies , and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies . She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her books, Am�ricanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) and and Career Narratives and...See more

Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle is Professor of English at The College of New Jersey, USA. Her work appears in Life Writing , Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, The European Journal of Life Writing , Persona Studies , and a/b: Auto/Biography Studies . She was the 2021-22 Fulbright Research Chair of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada. Her books, Am�ricanas, Autocracy, and Autobiographical Innovation: Overwriting the Dictator (2020) and and Career Narratives and Academic Womanhood: In the Spaces Provided (2023) are published with Routledge Press in its Auto/biography Studies Series. Her current project, tentatively titled Life's Work: Career Narrative as Autobiography in the North American Academy , is a study of functional forms of life writing in academic careers. She serves as Editor in Chief of a/b: Auto/biography Studies . See less