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Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit Literature Department

Title Ph.D. Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

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Primary Office Location Remote work location

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Biography, Education and Training

Emily G.T. Corrêa is a Ph.D. candidate in Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in women's literature of the Americas during the long twentieth century, with a research focus on personal narratives and popular culture. Her dissertation, Documenting the Stars: Autotheory and the Language of Celebrity in the Americas, explores the possibilities and limits of autotheory as a feminist literary form by close-reading three films that feature “a woman telling her own story through that of another woman.”

She also researches cultural imaginaries surrounding incarceration and works with Prison Journalism Project as a project manager to support learning initiatives for incarcerated journalists.

She received an M.A. in English Language and Literatures from Mills College and a B.A. in English from UCLA.

Research Interests

Research interests include auto/biography studies, pop culture and celebrity studies, feminist and carceral studies.

Selected Publications

“Keywords in Context: Women and Crime,” co-authored with Kirsten Saxton. Women Writers in Context, Women Writers Project, Northeastern University, July 2024. https://wwp.northeastern.edu/context/#saxtontravis.crime.xml

A Prison Writer’s Guide to Media Writing, managing project editor. Co-authors Yukari Kane and Shaheen Pasha. Prison Journalism Project, March 2024. ISBN: 979-8-218-13841-7.

“Dreaming Edifices: Interactive Auto/Biography and New Narrative Architectures in Helena Solberg's Carmen Miranda: Bananas is My Business.” a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, January 2024. DOI: 10.1080/08989575.2023.2286154.