Laurie McNeill

Laurie McNeill is a Teaching Professor and Associate Dean, Students, at the University of British Columbia's Department of English Language and Literatures within the Faculty of Arts. Her academic work focuses on contemporary autobiography studies, particularly digital life narratives, and she teaches courses in autobiography, archival studies, and academic writing within both English and the Coordinated Arts Program.

• Education: Earned a PhD from the Department of English at UBC.

Her research spans trauma, memory, disability studies, and digital self-representation, examining how rhetorical genre theories frame questions of access and agency in autobiography. She co-edited Online Lives 2.0 (2015) with John Zuern, exploring digital life narratives, and is co-editing Teaching Lives (2017) with Kate Douglas, focusing on pedagogical applications of life writing.

Recent publications analyze digital self-narration (Life Bytes, 2013), social networking's impact on selfhood (There is No 'I' in Network, 2012), and commemorative writing limitations (Memory Failure, 2010). Her work frequently intersects Canadian cultural contexts with global auto/biographical practices, emphasizing how narrative forms respond to contemporary cultural situations through social actions and critical pedagogy.