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Beth Kearney

Beth Kearney

Beth Kearney is an early career scholar of contemporary literature. She is preparing a monograph on the use of photography in experimental memoir by women authors of the Francosphere. She is also researching contemporary literature (autobiography, fiction, and everything in between) that challenges national and cultural scripts of gender identity. She has published on these topics and others in several outlets, both public-facing (AsymptoteThe Conversation, MAI Journal) and academic (L’Esprit créateurFrancosphèresThe Australian Journal of French Studies, Modern & Contemporary France). She teaches French Studies at the University of Queensland.

Beth Kearney reviews ‘Splinters: A memoir’ by Leslie Jamison

September 2024, no. 468 27 August 2024
Leslie Jamison never smooths over the thorny edges of life. Her first memoir, The Recovering: Intoxication and its after-math (2018), recounts her journey from addiction to sobriety – or, rather, the cycle of addiction, denial, acceptance, sobriety, and relapse that defined her path to sobriety. Like all members of Alcoholics Anonymous, she is not alone in this messy recovery, and her first memo ... (read more)