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.'