Join OCLW for the first of this term’s Laura Marcus Workshops.

Once we get beyond the clichés about oversharing and privacy online, what does it mean to write a life in the digital age? What impacts do publishers, platforms, and publics have on the way life-writing appears to us today? This session will consider the longer history of digital life-writing, as well as exploring changes to our notion of a writer’s archive, and the challenges posed to literary writing when a life can be reduced to a stream of data.

The workshop leaders will be Adam Guy and Sarah Ogilvie, convened by Kate Kennedy.

Participants should come prepared to think about any aspect of life-writing in relation to online publishing, social media, digitising of archives, online platforms.