Nadja Gernalzick is an independent researcher in Comparative and American Literature and Media; Private Lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany; and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.Edwina Hagen is Assistant Professor of Cultural History of the Early Modern Period in the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.Martijn Icks is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam.Jennifer Keohane is Associate Professor and Director of Oral Communication at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Eric Shiraev is an author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books and other publications in the fields of international relations, politics, political psychology and cross-cultural and comparative studies.

• Life Writing Reputations: Introduction Nadja Gernalzick1 Mobilizing the Imperial Writer: Reputation Strategies in Zakhar Prilepin’s Auto/Biographical Writing and Transmedia Self‑Fashioning, 2017–2023 Thomas Fritz Maier2 Political Memoirs and Diaries in the United Kingdom since 1900: Genre, Paratext, and Reputation Management Richard Toye3 Political Autobiography in the Postrevolutionary Netherlands: Refashioning Reputations in the Early Nineteenth Century Edwina Hagen4 The Demon and the Prostitute: Justinian and Theodora in Procopius’s Biographical Secret History from Sixth‑Century CE Constantinople Martijn Icks5 Character Attacks in Biographies of U.S. Presidents: Psychological Mechanisms Eric Shiraev6 Narrating the Authentic Self: Campaign Speeches as Political Autobiography in the United States Jennifer Keohane7 Scandals, Auto/Biography, and Reputation Politics: Developing an Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework with Examples from the United States and Germany Andre Haller And Hendrik Michael8 Misreading Life Writing: The Schliemann Reputation Transactions between Archaeology, Psychiatry, and Auto/Biography, 1880s to 1990s Nadja Gernalzick9 Reclaiming Chastity and Literary Repute in Maitreyi Devi’s Life Writing It Does Not Die: A Romance (1974/1994) Nisha Ghatak10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina García’s King of Cuba (2013) Nadjiba Bouallegue11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Édouard Louis: Reputation Management between littérature engagée and Creating a Self Kathrin EngelskircherAuto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research Julia Novak“Epitaph” by Kateřina Tučková: An Auto/Biographical and Reputation-Political Appreciation Nadja Gernalzick And Martina Klicperova‑BakerEpitaph Kateřina Tučkova

Nadja Gernalzick is an independent researcher in Comparative and American Literature and Media; Private Lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany; and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.Edwina Hagen is Assistant Professor of Cultural History of the Early Modern Period in the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.Martijn Icks is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam.Jennifer Keohane is Associate Professor and Director of Oral Communication at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Eric Shiraev is an author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books and other publications in the fields of international relations, politics, political psychology and cross-cultural and comparative studies.

• Life Writing Reputations: Introduction Nadja Gernalzick1 Mobilizing the Imperial Writer: Reputation Strategies in Zakhar Prilepin’s Auto/Biographical Writing and Transmedia Self‑Fashioning, 2017–2023 Thomas Fritz Maier2 Political Memoirs and Diaries in the United Kingdom since 1900: Genre, Paratext, and Reputation Management Richard Toye3 Political Autobiography in the Postrevolutionary Netherlands: Refashioning Reputations in the Early Nineteenth Century Edwina Hagen4 The Demon and the Prostitute: Justinian and Theodora in Procopius’s Biographical Secret History from Sixth‑Century CE Constantinople Martijn Icks5 Character Attacks in Biographies of U.S. Presidents: Psychological Mechanisms Eric Shiraev6 Narrating the Authentic Self: Campaign Speeches as Political Autobiography in the United States Jennifer Keohane7 Scandals, Auto/Biography, and Reputation Politics: Developing an Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework with Examples from the United States and Germany Andre Haller And Hendrik Michael8 Misreading Life Writing: The Schliemann Reputation Transactions between Archaeology, Psychiatry, and Auto/Biography, 1880s to 1990s Nadja Gernalzick9 Reclaiming Chastity and Literary Repute in Maitreyi Devi’s Life Writing It Does Not Die: A Romance (1974/1994) Nisha Ghatak10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina García’s King of Cuba (2013) Nadjiba Bouallegue11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Édouard Louis: Reputation Management between littérature engagée and Creating a Self Kathrin EngelskircherAuto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research Julia Novak“Epitaph” by Kateřina Tučková: An Auto/Biographical and Reputation-Political Appreciation Nadja Gernalzick And Martina Klicperova‑BakerEpitaph Kateřina Tučkova

Nadja Gernalzick is an independent researcher in Comparative and American Literature and Media; Private Lecturer at the Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies at the University of Mainz, Germany; and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English and American Studies at the University of Vienna, Austria.Edwina Hagen is Assistant Professor of Cultural History of the Early Modern Period in the Department of History at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.Martijn Icks is Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Amsterdam.Jennifer Keohane is Associate Professor and Director of Oral Communication at the University of Baltimore, Maryland, USA.Eric Shiraev is an author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-four books and other publications in the fields of international relations, politics, political psychology and cross-cultural and comparative studies.

• Life Writing Reputations: Introduction Nadja Gernalzick1 Mobilizing the Imperial Writer: Reputation Strategies in Zakhar Prilepin’s Auto/Biographical Writing and Transmedia Self‑Fashioning, 2017–2023 Thomas Fritz Maier2 Political Memoirs and Diaries in the United Kingdom since 1900: Genre, Paratext, and Reputation Management Richard Toye3 Political Autobiography in the Postrevolutionary Netherlands: Refashioning Reputations in the Early Nineteenth Century Edwina Hagen4 The Demon and the Prostitute: Justinian and Theodora in Procopius’s Biographical Secret History from Sixth‑Century CE Constantinople Martijn Icks5 Character Attacks in Biographies of U.S. Presidents: Psychological Mechanisms Eric Shiraev6 Narrating the Authentic Self: Campaign Speeches as Political Autobiography in the United States Jennifer Keohane7 Scandals, Auto/Biography, and Reputation Politics: Developing an Interdisciplinary Analytical Framework with Examples from the United States and Germany Andre Haller And Hendrik Michael8 Misreading Life Writing: The Schliemann Reputation Transactions between Archaeology, Psychiatry, and Auto/Biography, 1880s to 1990s Nadja Gernalzick9 Reclaiming Chastity and Literary Repute in Maitreyi Devi’s Life Writing It Does Not Die: A Romance (1974/1994) Nisha Ghatak10 Biofiction, Minor Literature, and Reputation Management in Cristina García’s King of Cuba (2013) Nadjiba Bouallegue11 The Autosociobiographical Politics of Édouard Louis: Reputation Management between littérature engagée and Creating a Self Kathrin EngelskircherAuto/Biography and Reputation Politics: Prospects for Joint Research Julia Novak“Epitaph” by Kateřina Tučková: An Auto/Biographical and Reputation-Political Appreciation Nadja Gernalzick And Martina Klicperova‑BakerEpitaph Kateřina Tučkova