Sidonie Smith

professor, University of Michigan

Dr. Sidonie Smith is Martha Guernsey Colby Collegiate Professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, and President of the Modern Language Association of America. She has published widely in the areas of human rights, women's studies, the study of autobiography, and feminist and postcolonial literature and theory. Her many books include* Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition* (2004) and *Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives*, 2nd ed. (2010).