We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories

Robillard's book is a collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies.

Amy E. Robillard is Professor of English at Illinois State University, USA. She is editor, with Ron Fortune, of Authorship Contested: Cultural Challenges to the Authentic, Autonomous Author, and her work has appeared in a number of professional journals. Her personal essays have appeared on The Rumpus and on Full Grown People.

Preface Chapter 1: Learning to Keep My Distance Chapter 2: Searching for Stories Chapter 3: Witnessing the Collapse Chapter 4: Narrating Fragility Chapter 5: We Are All Telling It Slant