Cynthia G. Franklin
Cynthia G. Franklin is a contemporary American literary and cultural critic. She is a professor in the English department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Education and career Franklin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Franklin teaches at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Through her work, Franklin discusses life-writing, such as academic memoirs, which explores the inner workings of academia in the context of social issues. As co-editor of the journal Biography, she shapes the discussion of life-writing as a political and global genre. Franklin's latest book-length work, Academic Lives: Memoir, Cultural Theory and the University Today (University of Georgia Press, 2009), critiques strands of contemporary cultural theory—feminist, post-colonial, disability studies, and critical race studies amongst others—and scrutinizing memoirs written by such influential fellow critics as Edward Said and Jane Tompkins. Franklin's previous book Writing Women's Communities: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Multi-Genre Anthologies (University of Wisconsin Press, 1997) shows how feminist writers of the 70's and 80's pioneered the anthology as a unique form of narrating women's lives. References External links https://archive.today/20130416013453/http://www.ugapress.org/index.php/books/academic_lives http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0178.htm Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Stanford University