Autotheories

Autotheories, edited by Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Cooppan, is a transdisciplinary edited volume that surveys autotheory's iterations and permutations without fixing the field.

The collection brings together scholars and practitioners who blend autobiography, critical theory, and creative nonfiction to explore plural selves, citational practices, and political stakes.

Organized to alternate approaches that perform autotheory and those that analyze it, the book emphasizes relationality, affect, and decolonial genealogies.

Contributors include established and emerging figures across queer, trans, feminist, and postcolonial thought who illustrate how autotheory operates as both style and mode of critique.

The volume situates autotheory within contemporary political fields while resisting ossification into a single canon.