This course examines the life-writing of women authors of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will study theories of autobiography; including important feminist theorists such as Shari Benstock; Julia Watson; Sidonie Smith; and Jilll Ker Conway. With this theory in mind; we will consider autobiographical women's texts from the United States; Canada; Britain; and Australia. We will address how identities of gender; race; class; nationality; and sexuality inform works of life writing; and we will discuss how the authors push the boundaries of genres and forms - including the fine line between visual art and life writing in graphic memoirs. Finally; we will consider blog writing and social media as new forms of life writing in what critic Julie Rak calls the current 'memoir boom.'