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"Humanities Futures: Doctoral Education, Scholarly Communication, and Professional Capacities" Sidonie Smith is the Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished University Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan. She was President of the Modern Language Association of America in 2010. That experience led her to write "Manifesto for the Humanities: Transforming Doctoral Education in Good Enough Times" (2015). She is the author of "Where I’m Bound: Patterns of Slavery and Freedom in Black American Autobiography" (1974); "A Poetics of Women’s Autobiography" (1987); "Subjectivity, Identity, and the Body" (1993); and "Moving Lives: Women’s Twentieth Century Travel Narratives" (2001), as well as numerous essays. With Kay Schaffer, she co-authored "Human Rights and Narrated Lives" (2004). With Julia Watson, she co-authored "Reading Autobiography: A Guide for Interpreting Life Narratives" (2001; expanded edition 2010) and co-edited one anthology and four volumes of critical essays, among them "De/Colonizing the Subject: Gender and the Politics of Women’s Autobiography" (1992); "Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography" (1996); and "Inter/Faces: Women, Autobiography, Image, Performance" (2002). Her latest book, with Julia Watson, is "Life Writing in the Long Run: A Smith & Watson Autobiography Studies Reader" (2017).