Senior Lecturer in English

Overview

Emily Hipchen is a Fulbright scholar, the editor of Adoption & Culture, co-editor of the book series Formations: Adoption, Kinship, and Culture (OSUP), and a former co-editor of a/b: Autobiography Studies. She is also the author of a memoir, Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption (2005). She’s an editor of Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Works of Julia Alvarez (SUNY 2013), of The Routledge Auto|Biography Studies Reader (2015). She edited The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader (forthcoming 2023) as well as several special issues, including "The Dobbs Issue," "The Interviews Issue," "Formations," “What’s Next? The Futures of Auto|Biography Studies, ”“Adoption Life Writing,” and “Critique as a Signature Pedagogy.” Her essays, short stories, and poems have won multiple awards and have appeared in Fourth GenreNorthwest Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She teaches nonfiction, often about family and kinship, and editing.

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