Brown Bag Biography with Christina Lee

April 18, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

The Center for Biographical Research presents: / 鈥溾楰ill Your Darlings鈥: Reimagining a Space for Agency in Autofiction鈥/ Christina Nakyong Lee, PhD student, Department of English, University of Hawai驶i at 惭腻苍辞补 / The Fibonacci sequence, visually a spiral, is the only sequence in nature that represents infinity. Certain species of orchids organize their petals into the Fibonacci sequence as an evolutionary trait to soak in the most sunlight. In her presentation, Biography Prize winner Christina Lee will read excerpts from her work of autofiction 鈥淜ill Your Darlings鈥 and reflect on how fragmentation and the spiral narrative structure can reimagine a story of trauma as a story of survival and agency. / Christina Lee is a PhD student with a focus in Creative Writing in the English Department at the University of Hawai驶i at 惭腻苍辞补. Her research interests include contemporary life writing studies, trauma narratives, and Asian American Literature. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, the Center for Oral History, Conflict and Peace Specialist, and the Departments of American Studies, English, Ethnic Studies, History, Political Science, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, April 18 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST


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