14 January 2022 - 14 January 2022
2:00PM - 3:00PM
Online (Zoom)
Free
In this talk and reading, Dr Lauren Fournier will discuss the auto-theoretical-fictional impulse as it relates to an expanding field of creative nonfiction (CNF).
20th and 21st century research seminar
She begins with a discussion of concepts and ideas from her book on Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (The MIT Press, 2021), and moves into a reading of her forthcoming hybrid-genre novella (Fiction Advocate, 2022): a coming-of-age story in which Fournier reconsiders Chris Kraus's cult novel I Love Dick (1997) from the perspective of her own experience trying to become a writer in late-aughts East Van—a land where the Barista Boys roam cool and free.
Writer, curator, and filmmaker
Lauren Fournier's (she/her) book Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism was published by The MIT Press (2021). Her novella, a hybrid work of autofiction and literary criticism, is forthcoming through the indie press Fiction Advocate (San Francisco). She has published fiction and other creative writings internationally, including the recently published short story "The Grateful Dad" in Soft Punk Magazine (London, UK).
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