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 Genre, Northwest Review, Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She teaches nonfiction, often about family and kinship, and editing.
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"For Panic: Say Five Things You See, She Said." New South Review, vol. 13, 2020.
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"Adoption Geometries." Adoption & Culture, vol. 6, no. 1, 2018, pp. 229–247.
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"Bare Feet, Broken Glass." Muse/A, vol. 6, 2018, pp. 14.
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"My Heart is a Jehovah’s Witness." Muse/A, vol. 6, 2018, pp. 13.
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"The Mad Hatter Talks with the Widow." Muse/A, vol. 6, 2018, pp. 12.
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"Goya Talks with the Widow." Pea River Journal, vol. 4, 2017, pp. 60.
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"Looking Ahead: The Futures of Auto/Biography Studies." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, 2017, pp. 139–157.
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"Napoleon Talks to the Widow." Pea River Journal, vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 59.
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"Phyllida Law is Dying." vol. 4, no. 1, 2017, pp. 58.
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| Nancy L. Chick, Phillip Motley. "A Conversation About Critique as a Signature Pedagogy in the Arts and Humanities." 2016. |
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"Ybabruopeek." Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland, edited by Jane Satterfield, Laura Kruk, Demeter, 2016.
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"30 Years (and Counting)." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 30, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-2.
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"Baptism of a Memoirist." Cherry Tree, vol. 1, 2015, pp. 174-175.
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"Dog Years." Mudfish, vol. 18, 2015, pp. 196.
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| "Good Girls Don’t." Hippocampus, 2015. |
| "Hush." Under the Sun, 2015. |
| "My Pet Heart." Madcap Review, vol. 3, 2015. |
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"The Good Part." Driftwood Press, vol. 2, no. 1, 2015, pp. 17-19.
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The Routledge Auto/Biography Studies Reader. edited by Ricia A. Chansky, Emily Hipchen, Routledge, 2015.
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"What God Thinks I Can Bear." Mississippi Review, vol. 43, no. .5, 2015, pp. 102.
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"Ducking." Bacopa Literary Review, vol. 5, 2014, pp. 89-94.
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Cynthia Callahan.
"Exploring Origins and Futures: Adoption Studies Research." Adoption & Culture, vol. 4, 2014, pp. 9-12.
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"Leavings." New Millennium Writings, 2014, pp. 146-147.
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"Middle-Class Pater Noster, 1974." Bellingham Review, vol. 68, 2014, pp. 51.
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"No Pleasure." Spoon River Poetry Review, vol. 39, no. 1, 2014, pp. 86.
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Cynthia Callahan.
"Primary Sources: Literature." Adoption & Culture, vol. 4, 2014, pp. 133-145.
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"Boy into Polished Concrete." Cincinnati Review, vol. 10, no. 1, 2013, pp. 73.
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"Broody." Bayou Magazine, vol. 59, 2013, pp. 68-74.
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| "Gator Bites." Solstice, 2013. |
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"I Want Candy." Baltimore Review, 2013, pp. 333-339.
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Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez. edited by Emily Hipchen, Rebecca L. Harrison, SUNY Press, 2013.
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"Introduction. Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez." Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez, edited by Emily Hipchen, Rebecca L. Harrison, SUNY Press, 2013, pp. 1-20.
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"Finding Solutions." Fourth Genre, vol. 14, no. 1, 2011, pp. 127-132.
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"Solving for P." Fourth Genre, vol. 14, no. 1, 2011, pp. 119-126.
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"Mediating Truths in Adoption Search Narratives." Auto/Biography and Mediation, edited by Alfred Hornung, Universitätsverlag, 2010, pp. 21–29.
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"Genetic Sexual Attraction and the Creation of Fatherhood: Making Daddy (Infamous) in The Kiss." Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, vol. 42, no. 2, 2009, pp. 5–22.
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"Images of the Family Body in Adoptee Search Narratives." New Essays on Life Writing and the Body, edited by Christopher Stuart and Katherine Pryor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, pp. 168-189.
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"Sight-Seeing." Arts & Letters, 2009, pp. 82-88.
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"Transportation." Open Windows, vol. 3, 2008, pp. 53-58.
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"An Inviolate Preservation’: Immortalizing the Lock." On Second Thought: Updating the Eighteenth-Century Text, edited by Deborah Taylor Bourdeau and Elizabeth Kraft, University of Delaware Press, 2007, pp. 262–271.
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"Sentencing." Georgetown Review, vol. 9, no. 1, 2007, pp. 55-67.
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Coming Apart Together: Fragments from an Adoption. Literate Chigger Press, 2005.
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Jill R. Deans.
"Adoption Life Writing: Origins and Other Ghosts." a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, pp. 163–170.
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"Accounting for Fanny: ‘this curious inventory’ in Mansfield Park and The Loiterer." The Eighteenth Century Novel, vol. 2, 2002, pp. 306–24.
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"‘My house . . . turned topsy‑turvy’: Order and Acting in The Loiterer and Mansfield Park." Persuasions, vol. 19, 1997, pp. 31–35.
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| Year | Degree | Institution |
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| 1996 | PhD | University of Georgia |
| 1987 | BA | Furman University |
Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Award, Shortlist. “Gamification as a Design Technology for the Humanities Classroom.” Shortlisted for the Science of Learning Award. 2021. With Naomi Pariseault and James Egan.
Brown University OVPR Salomon Research Grant. The Routledge Critical Adoption Studies Reader [subvention for permissions]. 2021.
Brown University Curriculum Development Grant. “Editing as Re-vision,” a fully online, gamified course. 2020.
National Endowment for the Humanities Access Grant. “Expanding Impact of Undergraduate Research: Literary Undergraduate Research at the University of West Georgia and Beyond.” Co-facilitator. 2018.
Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2015, The Best American Essays (Levy and Atwan) for “Hush,” 2016.
Writing Fellow, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, 2015.
Writing Fellow, Ragdale Writing Residency, 2014.
Writing Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Writing Residency, 2013.
The University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, for Auto/Biography across the Americas: Reading Beyond Geographic and Cultural Divides. 2013.
The Autobiography Society, for Auto/Biography across the Americas: Reading beyond Geographic and Cultural Divides. 2013.
Intercultural Research Project Design in the Humanities. From the Zentrum für Interkulturelle Studien (Center for Intercultural Studies) at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, for Auto/Biography across the Americas: Reading beyond Geographic and Cultural Divides. 2013.
Winner of the Robert and Adele Schiff Award in Poetry at the Cincinnati Review for “Boy into Polished Concrete,” 2013.
The National Endowment for the Humanities. Georgia Arts Council / Southern Arts Federation Literary Arts Touring Grant. Support for Julia Alvarez’s on-campus visit. 2010.
Winner of the Georgetown Review Contest for Nonfiction, for “Sentencing.” 2008.
Open Windows (Ghost Road) First Prize for Creative Nonfiction for “Transportation.” 2008.
The J. William Fulbright Scholar Award. Support for travel to India, for teaching creative writing at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur, and for essays in The Soft Tool. 2008.
The National Endowment for the Humanities. Florida Humanities Council Grant. Support for the inaugural Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture conference at the University of Tampa. 2005.
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies / Newberry Library Fellow. 1997.
The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture
Modern Language Association
The Autobiography Society
| ENGL 0930 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction |
| ENGL 1030J - Editing Theory and Practice |
| ENGL 1050Q - Writing the Family |
| ENGL 1050T - Writing with Literature |
| ENGL 1050U - Writing Graphic Memoir |
| ENGL 1050X - Making a Scene |
| ENGL 1140F - Critiquing the Cultures of Kinship |
| ENGL 1190Y - Editing as Revision |
| ENGL 2940 - Scholarly Writing for Journal Publication |
